This year's (2017) Kenner Spiel des Jahres winner is Exit: The Game, but does it live up to the hype? The short answer is an overwhelming “Yes!” Winning the Kenner Spiel des Jahres is a big deal, and the competition is always stiff, but the top pick has rarely let me down and this year is no different.
Exit: The Game is darn near perfect. It does what it was intended to do quite well, which is to provide an experience not unlike that of an escape room. Solving the logic...
In the captivating game, The Rose King, which is loosely themed after the real-life War of the Roses, players take on the role of either house Lancaster or house York and vie for dominance to see who can control the most territory.
The Rose King is another fantastic two-player game from Kosmos. If you are a fan of two-player only games, check out Kahuna, also by Kosmos, which we thoroughly enjoy. Similar to Kahuna, The Rose King is an abstract territory control game. ...
“Band Together. Forge the Fantasy. Live the Legend.” That’s the text found at the bottom of the Legends of Andor box and it really sums up how it feels to play the game. Being equal parts theme and strategic puzzle solving, Legends of Andor packages tabletop adventure storytelling in a well-designed, accessible manner.
Legends of Andor is a little different from most board games I’ve played. Instead of distinctly feeling like either a euro game or an ameritrash game, ...
Some things just go well together: peanut butter & jelly, Sifl & Olly, milk & cookies, board games & friends. The latter is probably my favorite combination, so when a board game mixes two great things together, like steam punk & time travel, I’m sold. Steam Time does just that.
The theme/setting of Steam Time is this: In the current year of 1899, a fantastic discovery of unusual crystals, with spacetime bending properties, has sparked the inventio...
Ubongo is a quick puzzle game that is easy to learn and play. Players are given cards with a shape puzzle, and given cutout shapes to fill their puzzle cards. It’s a race to the finish to get more valuable gems. Players of all skill levels have the potential to win in this version, which has simplified scoring from the original edition.
Gameplay:
The round tracker is set up with blue sapphire and brown amber gems in the corresponding columns. These gems are rewards f...
The wife and I are always on the lookout for good two player games. Too many games, it seems, are great with 3+ players, but suffer when only two players are involved. Enter Kahuna, a game designed for only two players. We were excited to take this strategy game of island conquest, by KOSMOS, for a spin.
Being designed exclusively for two players is what drew us in to Kahuna. The island theme, for me, wasn’t a strong selling point, but it wasn’t a major turn off eit...
