Hallertau won the Solitaire Times 2020 Best Game Award, so it was high time I checked it out. And I did. I played it fifteen times in the last five days. I consider that a lot, for an hour long game with challenges and dilemmas that will take up all your attention. But as soon as I was finished, I would set it up again. The Bavarian region of Hallertau. Land of glorious hop production. Of Weihenstephan Hefeweißbier. 🍻 Great stuff. I'll admit I was a bit disappointed that the

Hallertau is a 1-4 player worker placement game by Uwe Rosenberg in which you cultivate crops (mainly hop) and develop your village in 19th century Bavaria. It will be released by Lookout Games during Spiel Digital in the last week of October, and will become available in European shops right after. US distribution will follow. The game is played over 6 rounds with 10 phases each. The solo mode is exactly the same as the multiplayer mode, and you are trying to score at least

I've called the automa Neil, as I understand he's a bit clumsy at making quilts and I'd like to stand a chance. I've owned this deck of cards for solo play of Uwe Rosenberg's Patchwork since they came out, but it took months for me to finally try them. I was surprised at how much fun I had. Neil takes some patches and collects some income, like you'd expect from an automated opponent, but with some good tactics (sometimes going for the largest patch, sometimes for the most bu

Under the laconic description, 'Newdale is a board game set in the world of Oh My Goods', Alexander Pfister's 1-4 player campaign game will debut in this year's Essen Spiel. According to information posted in this BGG thread, the game combines 'worker placement, engine building and action programming with a certain element of risk'. Like Oh my Goods, it is illustrated by Klemens Franz (who some of us love to hate). #Newdale, #Pfister, #LookoutGames