I love push your luck games. They’re clearly pure strategy and have no luck components to them what-so-ever. Of course, I still don’t always win despite my strategies. Flip 7 and Flip 7 With a Vengeance are two popular push your luck games on the market today. Should you give them a shot?
Harmonies is a relatively recent release that’s gotten some good buzz around it. It’s got cute animals, puzzly gameplay, and seems pretty approachable. Is this game a high note or a cacophony of noise?
So it looks like I’m going to do a day trip to Gen Con on Friday this year. I’m anxious and excited and scared and hopeful and worried and… You get the idea. So I’m gonna write out what I’m looking forward to and what I’m concerned about and maybe that’ll help. A list of the good and the bad. Gen Pros vs. Gen Cons, I suppose.
SolForge Fusion is a game of combining half-decks to create a playable deck against another player who has done the same. This removes the extensive deckbuilding from the game, as opposed to other games like Magic: The Gathering or Lorcana. This makes building decks faster, but does faster always mean better? Or does the faster deck building make this game lose its sol?
I was at my new FLGS last night and taught Sea Salt & Paper and thought it was time to review it after getting in another play with some new folks. I’ll be sure to pepper in some puns and dad jokes into the review, you know, just to spice things up. It’s always the season for puns. Sea Salt & Paper is a set collection style card game with adorable art and some clever game design. The core rules are simple: On your turn, take either one card off of the top of either discard or draw two cards...
I really enjoy puzzle games and solo board games for similar reasons. It’s all about figuring out the best move and how to do better every time you fail. I was sent a code for Howl, a turn-based video game that feels like a board game. Let’s talk about the game play and if I wolfed it up.
Been a while since I made a post, and with the state of everything, I think you’ll understand why. This is what’s been going on with me and how I see Geek-Craft changing.
