Splendor is one of our favorite board games to break out at Assorted Meeples. This is a great board game that is simple enough for enjoyable causal play with the parents or grandparents, but has enough strategy to it that serious gamers can have some incredibly close and intense 3-person or 4-person games. Phil even …
Etherium – the ender of famine, the bringer of peace and prosperity, used to be plentiful across the land. Now? Supplies have dried up and there is but a single site on the planet where this powerful source of magic can be found. You are 1 of up to 4 wizards seeking to claim this …
Our group has long been into board games, and while many people have fond memories of basic board games like Life, Monopoly, Battleship, and others while kids, but as you get older you just want more challenging or more in-depth games. And, fortunately, for those of us who have always loved the board game experience, …
The idea behind the Smash Up board game is as simple as it is brilliant. Pick 2 factions, shuffle their 20 card decks together, then use your newly assembled deck to establish dominance over bases before your opponents do. Despite a slew of loosely themed expansions, gameplay remains extremely accessible, and the replay value only …
Look, I get it, we start out with Risk because what’s easier than rolling dice and seeing the higher numbers versus the lowest one? This is a great foray into strategy games when you are a really young gamer and helps you appreciate strategy or conquest games as you move along, grow a bit older, …
The board game industry is going through a boom! Some people put this down to the pandemic, forcing everyone to stay home and find new forms of entertainment; but the surge started way before then. While there is a major correlation between people trying to detox their lives of unnecessary digital influence and the rise …
Drop Mix is a game that was introduced to us by my (Phillip) brother and gifted to us by Heather’s brother. Either way it came recommended as a good time and it deliver just that. What they set out to do in the game is quite fun and executed incredibly well. It may not get …
They got me with the name! I chased that bright and shiny name and saw the gameplay of it, even got to play it at Gencon, and I was hooked. As ridiculous as the name is the gameplay supports it. You are looking at Mariokart on your tabletop even if it doesn’t have the IP, …