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 …
Here to Slay is a game that Phil has been following for quite some time now, and this rematch was actually Heather’s idea. This is a game that is competitive, and the two player face off is fantastic. Will they be rangers? Will they be fighters? Will Team Heather win again or will the dark …
The idea that chess is a “solvable” game was odd to me the first time I heard it. While I’m far from a grandmaster, I’ve always been an avid chess player. Helped create a chess club at my high school 25 years ago that still exists to this day, and was one of the better …
Tsuro is a game that is very simple in many ways, et the simplicity allows for some deep thought competition as you are working to create a board that is probably going to be friendly to you and not so friendly to your opponents. But if you’ve watched any of our previous playthroughs of this …
Pandemic is one of those board games that has no problem with throwing a major challenge at the group. Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose. Because this is a really, really hard game with an incredible replay value as you and your fellow players race to stop a global catastrophe. No matter …