A Gentle Rain is a solitaire (and possibly co-op) tile laying game about water lilies blooming in a pond. This is a very small box game designed by Kevin Wilson (designer of Arkham Horror, among others), and available to purchase from Mondo Games' website. All you have to do in A Gentle Rain is match up flower halves by placing tiles in the best possible way. You start the game with a stack of tiles and place one down each turn. The tile you place must match with at least one

Update: Everdell:Newleaf, Everdell:Mistwood and a Big storage Box are live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 15 days. You may back the two expansions only, or get them together with the box, or go all-in and get everything Everdell. Our preview post below was published on March 6. The 1-4* player card drafting and worker placement game Everdell is going to receive two new expansions - Everdell: Newleaf and Everdell: Mistwood - and a Big Box to store everything rele

Flourish is a 1-7 player card drafting and set collection game about creating the most beautiful garden. It can be played competitively, cooperatively or solo. The campaign is now live on Kickstarter and it will run for 16 days. There is only one pledge option that gets you the game and the Friends and Follies expansion. Shipping is unfriendly to anywhere outside the US. In the solo mode of Flourish, you play against an AI called McGregor. McGregor has a deck of 12 cards, a s

Our favourite librarian Arvid asked me to share some insights in the undisputed best dice game ever, Elder Sign. He turned our conversation into an article that we shamelessly copy-pasted below. Please visit his blog One Player, Two Cats for insightful reviews on other solo games though! OPTC: How would you describe Elder Sign? JW: Elder Sign is a cooperative dice allocation game. You play as investigators trying to stop the awakening of an Ancient One in the 1920s. By findin

In Sovereign Skies you go planet-hopping with your mothership on a rondel in Space. It's a euro strategy game, which is fitting, as games are the only space race we can win against the other superpowers. You build bases, recruit senators and try to get the loyalty of the people to beat a robot player on victory points. Sovereign Skies is back on Kickstarter three months after cancelling their first try. They've dropped the spaceship miniatures and the price, and added game co

Anthropomorphic animals tend to attract attention, and Everdell's finely executed illustrations and impractical cardboard tree have captured the hearts of many a gamer. Two new expansions have now been launched on Kickstarter, Everdell: Spirecrest, and Everdell: Bellfaire. The campaign will run for 16 days. In Spirecrest, adventurous souls travel beyond Everdell to explore new lands, meet other creatures, and face weather conditions along the way. In gameplay terms, this tran