A hugely ambitious open-world choose-your-own-adventure experience packed with discovery and freedom, but its fragmented storytelling, repetitive dice resolution, and lack of clear direction make it a difficult...
Category - Storytelling
Matthew Bailey
Ambie ValdésCozy StickerVille
A cosy, story-driven sticker adventure that’s perfect as a shared family activity, as long as you’re happy with a limited number of plays.
Flashback: Lucy
Today we are going to be looking at Flashback: Lucy, the second game in the Flashback series. The first was Flashback: Zombie Kids, a story game based on the Zombie Kids franchise that was released a couple of...
Memo Mission
A lovely mix of memory and storytelling with wonderful artwork.
My Puzzle Adventure
On the 11th day of Christmas, my children played with me… Eleven jigsaw pieces, Ten Farting Canines, Nine Naming Words, Eight Hamster Homes, Seven Toiling Train Lines, Six locking safe keys… FIVE CARLSBERG CHIPS...
Wilmot’s Warehouse
A magical cooperative social memory game that is 100% worth playing.Sometimes, when playing games, you can experience a moment of joy where you are incredibly proud of something you’ve managed to achieve. When...
My First Adventure: The Odyssey of Phobos
I’ve talked about the My First Adventure series before but I just got a review copy of My First Adventure: The Odyssey of Phobos from Fable Fox Press, which has three of the books available in the US! Previously I had...
Steery
“Steery” is a game with a long history with Little Board Gamers. We contributed significantly to the feedback that shaped it into the more family-friendly game it is today, as opposed to the slightly more...
My First Adventure: Finding the Dragon
My 3yo twins’ most played and favorite “board game” by far is My First Adventure: Finding the Dragon. It’s a choose your own adventure beginner RPG storybook for kids where you get three choices at each page. The pages...
Pixel – UKGE 23
A fairly quick one today. Game 7 of the “Games that Jack(8.) and I played at the UKGE” is “Pixel” (not to be confused by the sliding game released in 2007). Now pixel is essentially a deck of...
Wonder Book
We haven’t had any story-driven games for a while so for the next 2 days we will be looking at 2 story-driven games that are both fairly similar in certain aspects of the execution but also quite different. So for...
What Next?
Another story-driven game that is very similar to yesterday’s game. So for game 22 of the “Bailey Family Sorta Summer Board Game Bonanza” we will be looking at “What Next?” played by myself...
Stuffed Fables
Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.Toby(3) fell asleep on the way back from the in-laws today so I agreed with Jack(6) that we could play...