Shane Dayton
Azul is a mosaic tile placement game that relies a lot on recognizing patterns, seeing colors, and being able to get all five colors in a row down in a single round. There’s a lot of strategy involved and yet the gameplay is simple but offers plenty of challenge and competition. If you are really …
There’s no question the right board game can bring so many hours of entertainment that it’s worth a heft price tag. Stone Age, Lords of Waterdeep with expansions, and Red Dragon Inn are just three examples of games we adore that aren’t cheap. But the many, many hours of gameplay these games provide make the …
Well it’s been one heck of a (checks wrist hair where a watch used to be back when time mattered) 14 months. We’re not going to rehash all that insanity and unpleasantness, but we survived. We all survived, and after vaccinations, some incredible shifting and improv with our gaming group over the past year and …
A dice game that brings you into Medieval Japan where you act as a shogun commanding your armies of archers, swordsmen, cavalry, and samurai to conquer the various factions of Japanese warlords. This is a simple game that gives plenty of room to go in-depth with strategy when competing against another player one on one. …
My wake up call for Slime Rancher was nothing short of absolutely devastating. Since all the marketplace prices were down, and my vacuum capsules were maxed out for the corrals, why not just stack them up by the marketplace and wait for prices to go up? Great idea, right? Slime Rancher strategy 101, right? Would’ve …
Slime Rancher is a wonderfully enjoyable game that gets addictive really fast. It doesn’t take long at all to start collecting pink plorts from those early pink slimes that are everywhere. Before long you’re growing the ranch, but there’s one plort that often remains elusive: the gold one. If you want to upgrade that ranch …
Anyone who is a fan of print and play games like our Mr. Phil has experience with Railroad Ink. This is a delightful little game, one that Phil had already taken the extra step of making laminated copies of when he first brought it to the group. It was well designed, different enough to stick …
Who doesn’t love it when a series of mega monsters meet for what all mega monsters love: smashing the utter crap out of the city known as Tokyo? King of Tokyo is one of our favorite board games to bust out during game night both on and off camera. While Phil’s dice luck can make …