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Preview: Hex: Shards of Fate

Posted in Board Games on October 18th, 2013 by Svenn

I previously wrote about the Kickstarter for Hex: Shards of Fate. Hex is a digital TCG that will include both a traditional PvP mode to play versus your friends (or random people across the world since it is digital) and a PvE mode where you can play with up to 2 other players cooperatively against various encounters and dungeons. Well, I’ve got my hands on the alpha now so I figured I would share how it is coming along. Read more »

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Kickstarter Projects #1 Follow-Up

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on April 16th, 2013 by Svenn

It’s been a while since our initial Kickstarter Projects post and we’ve received several of these games now. Here’s a follow-up post with our thoughts on some of these now released games. I am not doing full reviews of each game here (though we may do full reviews later), just a brief summary of thoughts.

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Review: Nightfall: Crimson Siege

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on November 3rd, 2012 by Svenn

Crimson Siege

It’s that time again. Less than 6 months after the previous release, Dark Rages, we’ve got a new Nightfall expansion, Crimson Siege. As with the previous release, this is an expansion only and requires a copy of one of the base games to be played. If you have not played the base game yet then I recommend that you read our review for the base Nightfall game first as this review is only going to cover the new things from the expansion. As with previous expansions, Crimson Siege adds 4 new cards of each colored moon (2 actions and 2 minions of each color). In addition there is a new summon deck with a set of various ghouls. Read more »

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Review: Nightfall: Dark Rages

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on June 21st, 2012 by Svenn
Dark Rages

Dark Rages!

Since I have discovered Nightfall it has been one of the most played games in my collection. This month AEG has released yet another expansion, Nightfall: Dark Rages. Unlike The Coldest War, Dark Rages is a true expansion and not a standalone expansion so you will need a copy of the base game to play it. Since this is not standalone I will not be reviewing any of the base game features, so if you are not familiar with the game I recommend checking out our Nightfall review first.

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Interesting Kickstarter Projects #1

Posted in Board Games on May 6th, 2012 by Svenn

I have been spending a lot of time on Kickstarter these days checking out the interesting projects people are putting up. I’ve found there is a large amount of board games and card games with interesting ideas popping up there, so I though I’d start sharing the ones I find intriguing. I’ve backed a handful of projects so far and I plan to continue backing more. Read more »

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Review: Nightfall: The Coldest War

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on March 27th, 2012 by Svenn

Nightfall: The Coldest War

Nightfall: The Coldest War is the latest (standalone) expansion to Nightfall, the deck-building game from AEG. We absolutely loved Nightfall, so we were excited to try this latest addition. The Coldest War not only adds new archive card options, but includes new wounds, starter cards, and a whole new aspect to the game with the moon deck. For those of you who are not familiar with Nightfall I will give a brief rundown of the basics of the game itself (though I recommend starting with our review of the core Nightfall game if you are not already familiar with Nightfall) and then I will get into the specifics of this expansion.

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Review: Nightfall

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on March 24th, 2012 by Svenn

Nightfall

Since the release of Dominion and the birth of the deck-building genre there have been a large number of deck-building games released. Each game brings their own twist to the table, and Nightfall by the Alderac Entertainment Group has several unique gameplay elements that make it stand out in my mind. The first thing you might notice though is that Nightfall is based around vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night mixed with guns in a more modern setting.

Note: If you are not familiar with the basics of deck-building games I recommend reading our Dominion review first as that explains the basics of the genre.

The initial draw of Nightfall for me was the promise of direct conflict and combat between players. The one thing that I had a problem with in the deck-building genre (and specifically with Dominion) was the lack of interaction between players. In Nightfall players are directly attacking each other with their minions each turn. Added to the beginning of the typical genre turn setup of playing actions, buying, and cleanup is a combat phase.

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Review: Dominion

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on March 17th, 2012 by Svenn
Dominion

Dominion

We have recently discovered the relatively new genre of deck-building card games. If you are not familiar with the genre the name might conjure up thoughts of Magic: The Gathering or other CCGs. However, the deck-building genre is something very different. Instead of building a deck of cards and then playing a game with that deck the game itself is building your deck by purchasing cards each turn, not to mention the entire game comes in one box so there is no card collecting. We have tried out many different deck-building games recently, but I am going to start by reviewing the game that started the genre, Dominion.
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Review: Super Dungeon Explore

Posted in Board Games, Reviews on January 5th, 2012 by Svenn
Super Dungeon Explore

Super Dungeon Explore!

In addition to the card games that I have reviewed recently I have also been playing several board games. Among these is Super Dungeon Explore from Soda Pop Miniatures, which crosses the board game boundaries and heads straight into miniatures territory with a cute chibi anime style.

Super Dungeon Explore is a hack and slash board game that can be played with anywhere from 2-6 players. One player plays the Consul, the evil overlord who spawns and controls the monsters, while the other plays are the Heroes (a player can control 1 or multiple heroes depending on the game size and number of players). The entire game is played on a set of modular tiles and uses a whole lot of miniatures. Read more »

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