The Short Version – TL;DR Fate of the Fellowship is a cooperative game for one to five players where you’re guiding the Fellowship across Middle-earth, keeping Frodo safe from the Nazgul, pushing back Sauron’s shadow armies, and working towards destroying the One Ring. It’s built on the Pandemic System but feels considerably more complex and … Read more
Is it Spicy enough for you? Dune: Imperium is the game that convinced several people in my regular group that deck-building was actually interesting. It does something clever: it takes the card-acquisition loop of a deckbuilder and fuses it with a worker placement layer, so the cards you buy determine what your workers can do. … Read more
Star Realms is one of the most impressive small-box games in modern board gaming. It is a full deckbuilding game, two-player out of the box, that fits in a pack of cards, costs very little, and plays in about twenty minutes. The fact that it is also genuinely excellent is almost unfair. Designed by Robert … Read more
