As I go through my summer marathon, I am a firm believer that negative reviews are sometimes just as important as positive reviews. If you look across social media and various board game reviews, you will see some that...
Category - Competitive
Matthew Bailey
Crooked Crown
Game 4# of the “Now & Then Summer Marathon 2024” is “The Crooked Crown” by Outset Games. Played here with Jack(9) and Toby(6) “The Crooked Crown” is a simple card game for 3-8...
Star Realms
Having really enjoyed “Star Realms Academy” at the UKGE (review of that still to come), Jack (9) was keen to get the “adult” version of “Star Realms.” So therefore… Game 3# of the...
DOS
Recently, the subject of games that are like “Uno” but better has come up fairly regularly. So, imagine my, to be honest, rather tepid excitement when I discovered that there was a game called...
Shadow Ninjas
Today marks the first of July, and that means we are going to start this year’s summer marathon. Last year I managed to review 56 games, and this year I am going for a nice round 60. Before I begin, the slight...
Anger Smash
As I start to plan out what’s going to be included at least in the first half of this year’s summer marathon, (which we are aiming to start on July 1st) , I thought I would post a quick review of “Anger...
Thunder Road Vendetta
As we approach the start of the summer marathon, there are a few games that I really want to cover before that. With a new Mad Max in the cinema (and Mad Max Fury Road being my fave action film of all time) and Fortnite...
Taco Kitten Pizza – UKGE24
If you read my last post you will have seen that I intended on being done with my UKGE posts but this years “Spiel des Jahres” nominees landed (board game Oscars) and I was totally blindsided by the nominees...
Robot Quest Arena – UKGE24
Game #6 of our “UKGE ROUNDUP 2024” is “Robot Quest Arena,” which we played at the “Wise Wizard Games” stand and was one of Jack’s(9) favourite games from the whole weekend. “Robot Quest Arena” is a...
Go For Gold – UKGE 24
Game #5 of our “UKGE ROUNDUP 2024” is “Go for Gold,” which we played at the “Gibsons Games” stand. “Go for Gold” is a relatively simple card game that is better described as “Dobble with a bit more...