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There's a century of history behind the war on the kitchen table
In 1913, two novelists shot toy soldiers with a toy cannon after dinner. That evening marked...
What do you add to a game that already seemed complete?
Ten new cards for one of 2024's most beloved games. It seems like a minor addition....
It's too expensive. Or we've already devalued it ourselves
It's released in Italian, and the slamming begins chain-reaction style, for games that haven't even had...
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An hour of pretense, and at the end of the evening, no one remembers who won
The co-creator of Dead of Winter and a rising star in game design sign off on a tabletop heist. But the real...
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Two thousand crimes in a few cards, and one was wrong
An Informatics Olympiad medalist and the father of an award-winning children's game. Together, they packed two thousand riddles into a small box....
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He created a ten-kilo world, then left its leadership
A PhD in physics on graphene, a Kickstarter launched while still writing his thesis, and a name born from a misunderstood word....
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The Venetian fire that put a name on every box
Venice, 1978. A study catches fire. Twenty years of manuscripts burn – the life's work of a writer. When Alex Randolph returns...
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A thesis that turned into a publishing house
A Cypriot at King's College asks a strange question. Years later, the successor to a BGG Top 50 game arrives in Italian....
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He invented the deck-building game. Then he made one that kills you.
Thirteen disasters, always in the same order. You know which one is coming and on which turn. And you keep building the...
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The bag empties and there's no one else to blame
A solitaire where you fish for fish from a bag. Sounds like a cheap puzzle. After twenty minutes you discover it's something...
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Sixteen years looking for markets that don't exist
In 2009, he founded a game publishing house in a country that didn't read rulebooks. Today, he's opening franchised game pubs in...
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When a Portland jeweler listened to a friend talk about ants
Tim Eisner made jewelry at the Saturday market. He was about to quit. His brother convinced him to start a game company,...
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Sixteen siblings, a father who invented games, one and a half million copies
Fourteen years ago, after one of his sisters got married, Enoch Fryxelius asked his brothers, "Who's with me?". Since then, the family...
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Forty-eight hours to recall one's debut
At Gen Con 2025, Devir's communications director presents his first game as an author. Less than twenty-four hours later, stores are recalling...
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A thousand fake wooden boxes and a die that learned to speak
Lake Geneva, January 1974. Gary Gygax hand-assembled one thousand fake wooden boxes. Avalon Hill had rejected the manuscript a year earlier—too strange,...
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Eight years to design a game. Eight hours to live it
In 2015, the founder of GMT Games announced that he was working on the game he had always wanted to design. It...
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The CEO who tells you not to buy another one of his games
In January, he unveiled his 2026 plans in a YouTube livestream. Amidst the announcements, he uttered a phrase that a CEO should...
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He signed his work seventy-eight times. No one saw it.
In 1909, she designed the world's most famous tarot deck and hid her initials in the corner of each card. She died...
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Two friends, a Polish basement, the most beautiful miniatures of the decade
They started by hand-painting miniatures in a friend's parents' basement. Ten years later, they are the most talked-about publisher in the industry...
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An altar for those who are no longer with us — and to understand who you are
Two Portuguese designers built a Mexican altar for the dead. It's not a contradiction—it's the starting point. Ofrenda is a puzzle of...
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The pig who didn't want to make it — but did
Justin De Witt built his career on a single idea: that people cooperate better when they have something to lose together. Ham...
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When discounts become a habit, the market stops functioning
You booked at full price. A month later, it was already down by thirty percent. That's not bad luck — it's a...
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You know too much to build it well
Every game of Lairs begins with a strange question: how would you build a maze knowing that your opponent, and not you,...
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Each piece is a doorway.
It started with a four-euro children's puzzle — and she realized that each piece could be a door. Alex Rosenthal produces educational...
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In deck-building, you choose. In this, you don't.
Jordy Adan had just released Cartographers when he met Renato Simões. Together, they convinced Thunderworks to say yes in less than a...
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Why do you keep fishing even when you already know how it's going to end.
A creative director who left everything behind. A viral Dark Souls map. And a horror fishing game born from a misreading at...
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Discounted Price
Every title is born — or should be born — with a specific audience in mind. Not a vague idea. A real...
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Do you have strength or do you have a system? It's not the same thing
Muhammad Ali enters the board in butterfly stance. He can attack from two squares away — but his attacks are worth less....
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Do you have resources or do you have speed? It's not the same thing.
Every action you take creates momentum. Momentum allows you to draw more cards, activate abilities, and chain effects. If the flow breaks...
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Botswana: The Ruthless Elegance of the Savannah in a Box
Gameplay is disarmingly straightforward: you play a card from your hand, then take an animal from the center of the table via...
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Torchlit: Anatomy of a Ruthless Take-and-Bet Game
Hand Management in Torchlit is ruthless. The order in which cards are played is as crucial as their face value. Burning through...
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A Wild Venture: The Two-Player Game You Don't Expect
The elegance of hardcore design is revealed when the brain stops reading colored text and starts processing solely the fluidity of icons...
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Super Boss Monster: The Art of Building the Perfect Dungeon
The effect at the table is immediate: the grumbling begins as soon as a player steals exactly the room card his mother...
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The Mathematics of the Void: Survival and Sabotage in For All Mankind
The beating heart of this title's development mechanics is Chaining. Each action is never a one-off event, but the potential trigger of...
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Manhattan Project: Energy Empire Review
The essence of the game is based on creating a personal ecosystem on your board. When you choose to take back your...
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Nippon: Zaibatsu - The Art of Economic Warfare in Meiji Japan
The heart of the game lies in a Reverse Action Selection mechanic that completely overturns the classic paradigms of Worker Placement. Instead...
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Shikoku 1889: The Brutal Elegance of Railroad Capitalism
If an adversary owns more than 30% of your company, it's no longer your company. You're working for them. The only way...
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Vicious Gardens: When Gardening Becomes Psychological Warfare
The beating heart of Vicious Gardens lies in its ruthless Hand Management. Observe a player in his natural habitat: his gaze bouncing...
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Eila and Something Shiny: When Resource Management Becomes an Emotional Thriller
This isn't a simple "roll the dice and move" game. The system requires you to pay resources (carrots, coins, energy) to interact...
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Sardinia: Chronicle of a Silent Siege Between Sea and Land
Every placement is a declaration of intent. Placing a ship serves not only to control the sea, but also to prepare for...
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Harvest: When Agriculture Becomes a Cold War of Efficiency
The beating heart of Harvest lies in its central mechanic: a tight, almost claustrophobic Worker Placement. Unlike epic games where you deploy...
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Eternal Decks: Technical Analysis of a Game Evolution
Eternal Decks truly blossoms when you unlock the advanced modes and understand the depth of the Eternals deck. As a newcomer, you...
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Leviathan Wilds: An Impossible Climb Between Vertigo and Redemption
If your draw deck is empty and you need to draw (or take damage that forces you to discard), you lose the...
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Corps of Discovery: Duo – When the Map is the Enemy
The core mechanic that governs the experience is Spatial Logical Deduction. Unlike the original game, where the unknown is revealed, here the...
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Grendel: The Game of Crime and Mayhem - When Chaos Becomes Game Engineering
In many modern board games, asymmetry is a flavoring: everyone does the same thing, but some do it better. Here, asymmetry is...
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The White Castle: Duel - When Silence is Stronger than Dice
Many approached this box with skepticism: "The base game already scaled well for two players, why create another?"
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Origin Story: The Darwinian Evolution of Grip Mechanics
Stamina is your engine's rev limiter. A powerful engine without gas is just an expensive paperweight.
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Five Families: Friedemann Friese's Temporal Tension Experiment
In Five Families, the mafia is a thematic backdrop, but the system remains mathematical. Don't expect cinematic twists, but rather a war...
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Vicious Gardens: When Gardening Becomes Psychological Warfare
In Vicious Gardens, you're not collecting plants for the sake of botany, you're assembling munitions for an arms race.
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