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Quando un orefice di Portland ascoltò un amico parlare di formiche
Tim Eisner faceva gioielli al mercato del sabato. Stava per smettere. Suo fratello lo convinse a...
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...
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...
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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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Rumble Nation: Technical Analysis of the Blitzkrieg in Feudal Japan
The new meeple pool increases the map's readability. You can now distinguish the forces at a glance, reducing cognitive load and allowing...
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Heat: Legends - When AI Stops Faking and Starts Winning
🏎️ Heat: Legends - AI takes the wheel! Forget stupid bots. This expansion transforms Heat into algorithmic warfare. 🔥 **What's new: -...
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Arkham Horror LCG Core Set 2.0: Technical Analysis of a Necessary Evolution
🏁 Conclusion: What We Understood ✔ This is not a second edition ✔ Does not replace the game ✔ Change the expansion...
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The Middle Ages - The Last Lords of the Earth: The Brutal Elegance of Marc André
Technical innovation lies not so much in the mechanics themselves, but in the ergonomics of the choice. Shaped tiles—a production nightmare that...
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Feya's Swamp: Technical Analysis of a Ruthless Gaming Ecosystem
We're in the third round. The Red player, seduced by the possibility of closing an area, decides to spend his last spell...
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Fliptoons: The Chaos Algorithm in a 3x2 Grid
The technical genius lies in automation. You don't decide where a card goes while you play; you decide the statistical composition of...
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Cheese – the game that really spins: when the board becomes a tension machine
Cheese – When a Board Game Tells a True Story Cheese was born as a standalone of Fromage , but it's not...
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Unmatched – The line that won by doing the opposite of everything
Unmatched isn't "a game": it's a platform game. While everyone else is chasing balance and symmetry, here the manifesto is clear: "In...
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Hot Streak – the story of the CMYK party game born in 2014
Behind the scenes: The process is described as taking place “since 2014”, while the public release of the English edition is dated...
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Terraria: The Board Game - When the Digital Sandbox Becomes Cardboard and Strategy
Adapting an indie giant like Terraria requires more than a license; it requires respect and vision. Paper Fort Games, in close collaboration...
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Marvel Dice Throne: Deadpool – When Chaos Rolls the Dice
Beneath the red and black hood beats the solid heart of the Dice Throne engine, but Deadpool pushes it to the limits...
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