Adapted from the 2013 video game by XGen Studios, Super Motherload, designed by Gavan Brown and Matt Tolman, is a tile-laying, deck-building tabletop game that feels as though you’re playing competitive Dig Dug with your friends. As in the eponymous video game, players each represent teams...
Everyone loves charging into the darkness of a dungeon and stabbing things. It’s a time honored tradition amongst gamers. Thunderstone Advance: Worlds Collide provides exactly what the monster hunting, deck building fans are looking for. From AEG, Mike Elliot’s Thunderstone Advance: Worlds...
The Smash Up! you know and love just keeps getting bigger. AEG has joined forces with Steve Jackson Games to create a great mash-up of the classic Smash Up, but with the humor and artistic style of Munchkin! This new set is playable on its own and does not require the original base game to...
You’ve heard it over and over that once you die, you can’t take it with you. However, the Egyptians believed otherwise and you can choose what you’re taking in Tom Cleaver’s Valley of the Kings. Play a pharaoh preparing for your inevitable burial by stocking your tomb with food, amulets,...
In the Ascension story, the events of recent games have caused the gods to retreat New Vigil and leave the fate of that world in the hands of mortals. In Ascension: Dawn of Champions, you take up the cause of one of the four factions and act as the Champion Hero of that faction to bring order...
Star Realms fans can finally stop asking the question : the first expansion is coming! White Wizard Games is giving gamers a choice in how they expand their game with a set of 4 different packs. Each pack will contain 12 cards and retail for $4.99, so purchasing all 4 isn’t unreasonable for...
Doom has returned to the world. An ancient evil once thought locked away, Doom has begun to change. In the world of Numenera, Doom has taken the form of an intelligent virus that controls its hosts. All of the infected become known as the “Doomladen” and can sense each other’s presence no...
In a world, increasingly unlike our own, where trains are still a growing mode of transportation, you get a chance to put your mark on the face of Japan in the form of train tracks! Will you make a standard grid or go fancy and perhaps go for an argyle-style criss-cross pattern? Will you take the...
There are a lot of deck-building games out there, and they seem to be growing in popularity. One of my personal favorites, the Ascension series, has kept up with the times with its unique art and story. Using multiple resources, there are many tactics that players can put into action to ascend...
I’m a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. I’ve read the books, watched the films, and played just about every game under the sun that’s themed after the property. Recently Cryptozoic Entertainment, the same developer responsible for the DC Deck Building Game, released The Lord of the...
