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Given that I know nothing about Minecraft and find the voxel aesthetic repulsive, you may wonder why I picked Minecraft Explorers , that...

Neon Reign is a fast-playing arcade fighting game that hits all the right buttons.

One-Hit Heroes is live on Kickstarter.

Molehill Meadows is available on Gamefound.

If Boardquest: Tales of Liria doesn’t make you think of Warcraft III, then you either don’t know Warcraft III, or you don’t know...

Steam Power is our crowdfunding pick of the week.

Our Kickstarter spotlight of the week - and my personal back this month, incidentally - is Fate: Defenders of Grimheim, and it was about...

Zerbique reflects on the 2023 published games he played - and he even liked some of them.

Zerbique dives in Awful Fantasy Adventures.

We are December 17th and it's reasonable to assume that I won't be backing any new project in the following two weeks. So I can call the...

Some of you may know I left the 1Player Guild (meaning more time to dedicate to Solitaire Times!), and in the end, that's all about a...

A fierce archer ventures into a dungeon, and dies. Repeatedly.

Zerbique rambles about his new favorite abstract game.

Kickstarter pick of the week: an ecosystem game about dinosaurs, with a clever designing take on evolution, dinos, and ecological structure.

Humankind is facing a new era. For the first time, our intelligence, best reflected in our ability to produce relevant, intelligible,...

Tonight the winner of the Spiel des Jahres prize has been revealed, and I immediately thought: "Crap! It's a solo game! They are going to...

Life is an exploration, always pushing forward into the unknown up ahead - or so it is in Oceania. Crucially, the game does not reward...

Ever since JW asked me to write an “End Times” post, I have been pondering what to do. Then it struck me: I am a huge fan of Scrooge...

Part Two of the 2022 Zerbique's Top 20 Solo games

A Top 20 Solo games selection for the year 2022

What did contributor Zerbique back in Q3 2022? Learn to know our tastes better so our opinion biases will become clearer!

A review of the alleged worst Uwe Rosenberg game ever published, Tulpenfieber.

Restraint-wise, this second quarter of the year has been a real disaster. But I pledged a few games I’m pretty happy with. And I passed...

I heard the news tonight: Vangelis sailed away. Vangelis happens to be an artist whose work is quite special to me... When I was a child,...

The first quarter of the year felt very morose board games-wise. I couldn’t play much (adjusting to a new place, a new job, a new...

Tonight was my first "game night" here in Forest! I started with something great: arranging stuff in an insert. I actually purchased the...

(The post was written on the 31st of December, 2021) Last quarter of the year! Last chance to unleash the madness and to pledge far too...

Everyone has their eyes fixed on 2022 already, and starts to speculate on the wonders the board gaming world keeps in hold for the...

Yesterday we published numbers 20 - 11, so let's continue where we left off. Today it's time for the final countdown of Zerbique's Top 20...

Now that the 2021 People's Choice Top 200 Solo Games has been revealed on Board Game Geek, we'll share some favourite games with you as...

Monster Expedition starts off from a weird premise: in a Victorian steampunk fantasy world, rich people are entertained by exhibits known...

A new quarter of the year has passed, with its lot of alluring Kickstarters. So here is a recap of my own latest ventures into the...

I’ve grown a bit detached from the “What have you played this month?” challenges on the 1 Player Guild since the one about flowers, but I...

I shouldn’t even like the Rat Queens: they love to wreak havoc, mostly think about booze and drugs, and seem to care about nothing more...

As you may know by now, I have too many games. So, I successfully managed to slow things down in Q1. Q2 was harder to go through...

When I backed Bullet♥︎ a few months ago, I knew I would enjoy it. Swapping neon-colored tokens on a grid to fulfill patterns seemed...

Okay, a few more shelfies per Cadet Stimpy's request once more! This was the nucleus of my board game collection (upper shelf of my...

A few days ago I had promised Cadet Stimpy to show him pictures of my 1000+ games collection. Here they are. First, you must leave my...

OK this is silly but since Athena invited me to show my book shelves I try to figure out fun ways to do so, and, well, I do what I can....

The 1PG Challenge in April was to play 5 games with a rain/water theme. I wanted to try Bullet as it is very much raining bullets in that...

Afar is a graphic novel written by Leila Del Duca (better known for her artist work on Sleepless and, more recently, the Superman/Wonder...

I have always been curious about what Athena and JW are backing, because it says a lot about their gaming profile and what they think of...

Inspired by Athena's Owl post about Labyrinth, I figured I would write about my own favorite Henson movie, The Dark Crystal. Why is the...