The last week of March will bring us an artistic area control game, a worker placement game set in ancient Rome, a polyomino euro by Scott Almes, an astronomy-inspired game, and a fantasy game with animal mages. Then April starts with a cinematic love story. But let's check them out one by one. *** Nightmare Cathedral is a 1- 4 player area control game featuring dark surreal works by the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. As a Dreamer, you will be competing for the control of

We continue our weekly preview with another 4 games (here is Part 1). *** Mercurial is a 1-4 player competitive dice- and hand-management game in which you play as a spellcrafting mage, trying to take out the enemies of your land. The game is by David Goh, who previously designed the card game Endogenesis. In Mercurial, each player starts with a hand of cards, their dice, and a set amount of mana. You will be buying spell cards from the 'market' with dice and mana, and then p

As mentioned in our previous crowdfunding overview, March is churning out games like hot buns, and this week's batch contains 8 new releases. Let's see what they are. *** We're starting off with some expansions: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, a TM spin-off that is arguably better than the original, is now getting three expansions: Discovery, Foudations, and Crisis. In Crisis, natural disasters are hitting Mars, and you have to either deal with them or suffer the conseque

After a small hiatus due to your newshound being busy chewing some tough bones, here I am, yapping like crazy about all sorts of new games (yes, yes, enough about cats). I’ll begin with some barbaric display of raw violence, which seems to be the whole premise of Anastyr from Mythic Games, featuring heaps of gorgeously detailed minis of savory monsters! Have you ever heard some negative-thinkers point out that all these mini-fests of a board game actually start with the minis

March is one of the busiest months of the year crowdfunding-wise, and this week we are going to see the release of 7 new games. Here's what they are: *** Malhya: Lands of Legends is a 1-5 player cooperative adventure game that promises to deliver land exploration, dungeon crawling, riddle-solving, hero-building, and anything a gamer's heart desires. It is a narrative campaign game consisting of 9 chapters with choose-your-own-adventure elements. Solo players will have to cont

Let’s begin with something free: there’s a new series of solo games playable with a traditional deck of cards called Solitaire Legends. So far, two titles have been released: Tiger Lily and Guinevere. But you’re here for the shiny, right? The big boxes full of art, silk-screened meeples, custom dice, and plastic monsters. I’ll start with adorable woodland critters meeples then. In Golden Ei, a game that very much looks like it's aimed at children (age 6+ on BGG), you play as

We continue our crowdfunding preview with 4 more games - here is Part 1, in case you missed it. *** There was a time, not too long ago, when Cthulhu-themed games reared their tentacled heads on Kickstarter almost every week. Then the trend died out. Now someone had the epiphany to combine Cthulhu with theme parks, and thus Cthulhu Island was born. This is a 1-6 player area control game in which players are directors of theme parks competing for the creation of the most fearso

So. Many. Games. I mean, I know it's good to have options but when I see 9 new games launching on the same day (give or take one day), I feel a bit overwhelmed. In any case, let's go through them one by one. *** I'll start with the relaunch of Tiwanaku, formerly called Pachamama, about which Zerbique had written a detailed preview when it first launched. This is a 1-4 player deduction game in which Incan tribes are competing for the cultivation of crops and veneration of the