Game Night Reviews: Codenames
With our first successful meetup done and dusted I expected a full twelve months to pass by before I would have another opportunity to...
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Chris Bowler
Aug 9, 20174 min read
Game Night Reviews: Saboteur
In all my years gaming, there is one experience that stands out above all others as my favourite and that was a my first and only game of...
Chris Bowler
Aug 9, 20174 min read
Game Night Reviews: Wits & Wagers
Okay, so I’m back with my new series Game Night Reviews. Each game in the series has been played at my friendly game night with my...
Chris Bowler
Aug 9, 20175 min read
Stak Bots Red
Today I’m going to be taking a look at a preview copy of the Red Expansion for Stak Bots from Dogeared Games. I’ve been a fan of this...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20175 min read
The Agents 2.0
A little under a year ago I wrote about an upcoming game from a preview I had been sent called The Agents. Everything I wrote in that...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20176 min read
Blood Bowl Team Manager
When Blood Bowl was announced as a new deck building game, way back in the mists of time, I was excited to play it. Firstly because I...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 201710 min read
Thunderstone: The Root of Corruption
Other than bringing new cards and variety to the table ROC brings with it a brand new co-op variant known as Siege, which offers a very...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20175 min read
Stak Bots
Theme Humanity has been wiped out, leaving behind only sentient robots, programmed to kill, doomed to forever battle until only one bot...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20174 min read
Toc Toc Woodman
Theme You are a woodcutter, armed with your trusty axe you head off into the wood to carefully remove the bark from a tree without...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20178 min read
Descent 2nd Edition
This is going to be my first of two reviews of Descent, focusing entirely on the mechanics of the game and the differences between first...
Chris Bowler
Aug 8, 20173 min read
The Dwarf King
I’ve been a fan of Bruno Faidutti since I first played Citadels, so this small boxed Whist variant intrigued me. Bringing a mix of...
Chris Bowler
Aug 7, 20176 min read
Nightfall: The Coldest War
When I first played Nightfall I thought it was a pretty good, fast and brutal game, but that, no matter how you played, it was more luck...
Chris Bowler
Aug 7, 20174 min read
Hive Pocket
So, while at UK Games Expo I had the pleasure to meet and interview John Yianni, he was a delight to talk to and a very nice man. John...
Chris Bowler
Aug 7, 20177 min read
Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin
Theme In Heart of Doom the hero’s vanquished Doom itself and in doing so they shattered the Thunderstones and were transported to a new...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20175 min read
Elder Sign
A couple of months ago I went out and bought myself a nice Android Tablet. Primarily I was sick of carrying around my massive 17” laptop...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20175 min read
Existenz: On The Ruins of Chaos
I don’t often write negative reviews and when I do I try and write constructive reviews, rather than outright hate. Often if I can’t find...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20175 min read
King of Tokyo
Unlike most gamers I’ve never really played “Richard Garfield’s other game”, Magic: The Gathering. Although I did own a starter set of...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20179 min read
Thunderstone: Heart of Doom
It’s been almost a year since I started playing Thunderstone with my review of Dragonspire. Since then I’ve bought and played every...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20175 min read
LOTR LCG: The Hills of Emyn Muil
How can we forget the fabled Hills of Emyn Muil where Sam and Frodo spent most of a book wandering aimlessly lost until that “sneak”...
Chris Bowler
Aug 4, 20177 min read
Rune Age
Fans of this blog will know that I’m reasonably invested in the fantasy realm of Terrinoth, created by the guys over at Fantasy Flight,...
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