Get Something In Your Chest
Given that I know nothing about Minecraft and find the voxel aesthetic repulsive, you may wonder why I picked Minecraft Explorers , that...
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Zerbique
- May 3
Smashing Buttons
Neon Reign is a fast-playing arcade fighting game that hits all the right buttons.
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Zerbique
- Apr 19
A Mole in the Middle of Nowhere
Molehill Meadows is available on Gamefound.
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Zerbique
- Mar 9
Kickstarter spotlight - Boardquest: Tales of Liria
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...
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Zerbique
- Mar 2
Crowdfunding spotlight: Steam Power
Steam Power is our crowdfunding pick of the week.
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Zerbique
- Jan 31
Kickstarter spotlight - Fate: Defenders of Grimheim
Our Kickstarter spotlight of the week - and my personal back this month, incidentally - is Fate: Defenders of Grimheim, and it was about...
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Zerbique
- Jan 20
Another 2023 Ceremony Award - Casual Category
Zerbique reflects on the 2023 published games he played - and he even liked some of them.
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Zerbique
- Jan 12
Low Fantasy (but, like, very low)
Zerbique dives in Awful Fantasy Adventures.
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Zerbique
- Dec 18, 2023
A Year of Backing - Zerbique Pledges 2023
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...
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Zerbique
- Nov 30, 2023
Sexist Fantasy Covers
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...
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Zerbique
- Nov 15, 2023
Death in the Dungeon
A fierce archer ventures into a dungeon, and dies. Repeatedly.
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Zerbique
- Oct 13, 2023
Kickstarter Spotlight: Diatoms
Zerbique rambles about his new favorite abstract game.
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Zerbique
- Oct 2, 2023
Kickstarter Spotlight: Lands of the Mesozoic
Kickstarter pick of the week: an ecosystem game about dinosaurs, with a clever designing take on evolution, dinos, and ecological structure.
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Zerbique
- Aug 13, 2023
Facepalm Island
Humankind is facing a new era. For the first time, our intelligence, best reflected in our ability to produce relevant, intelligible,...
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Zerbique
- Jul 17, 2023
Tile-laying for the win
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...
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Zerbique
- Apr 6, 2023
Sailing Away
Life is an exploration, always pushing forward into the unknown up ahead - or so it is in Oceania. Crucially, the game does not reward...
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Zerbique
- Dec 30, 2022
End Times 2022: Past, Present & Future
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...
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Zerbique
- Dec 13, 2022
A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part Two)
Part Two of the 2022 Zerbique's Top 20 Solo games
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Zerbique
- Dec 5, 2022
A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part One)
A Top 20 Solo games selection for the year 2022
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Zerbique
- Nov 16, 2022
Zerbique KS backs Q3 2022
What did contributor Zerbique back in Q3 2022? Learn to know our tastes better so our opinion biases will become clearer!
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Zerbique
- Nov 7, 2022
Worst Uwe Ever
A review of the alleged worst Uwe Rosenberg game ever published, Tulpenfieber.
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Zerbique
- Aug 22, 2022
Zerbique KS backs Q2 2022
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...
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Zerbique
- Apr 20, 2022
Zerbique KS backs Q1 2022
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...
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Zerbique
- Jan 31, 2022
First game night in my new place: Gate and A Gentle Rain
Tonight was my first "game night" here in Forest! I started with something great: arranging stuff in an insert. I actually purchased the...
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Zerbique
- Jan 19, 2022
Zerbique KS backs Q4 2021
(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...
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Zerbique
- Jan 1, 2022
The ten games I'd like to finally play in 2022
Everyone has their eyes fixed on 2022 already, and starts to speculate on the wonders the board gaming world keeps in hold for the...
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Zerbique
- Nov 23, 2021
Zerbique's Top 20 Solo Games 2021 - part 2
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...
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Zerbique
- Nov 21, 2021
Zerbique's Top 20 Solo Games 2021 - part 1
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...
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Zerbique
- Nov 20, 2021
Monster Expedition: Gotta Poach ’em All!
Monster Expedition starts off from a weird premise: in a Victorian steampunk fantasy world, rich people are entertained by exhibits known...
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Zerbique
- Oct 6, 2021
Zerbique KS backs Q3 2021
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...
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Zerbique
- Sep 12, 2021
1PG August Challenge: Six tile-laying games
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...
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Zerbique
- Jul 9, 2021
Comics post: Rat Queens
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...
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Zerbique
- Jul 1, 2021
Zerbique KS backs Q2 2021
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...
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Zerbique
- Jun 21, 2021
Straight to the heart
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...
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Zerbique
- Jun 14, 2021
Sexy Shelfie part 2
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...
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Zerbique
- Jun 9, 2021
Sexy Shelfie
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...
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Zerbique
- Jun 3, 2021
Five books I cannot read
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....
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Zerbique
- May 1, 2021
1PG April Challenge: 5 games with a water theme
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...
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Zerbique
- Apr 16, 2021
Comics post: Afar
Afar is a graphic novel written by Leila Del Duca (better known for her artist work on Sleepless and, more recently, the Superman/Wonder...
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Zerbique
- Apr 12, 2021
Zerbique KS backs Q1 2021
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...
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Zerbique
- Mar 18, 2021
Another world, another time, in the age of wonders
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...
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