In this latest episode, I look at the game of Nations, a card drafting, resource management, worker placement kind of game. I also get to talk to one of the designers, Rustan Håkansson, one of the designers of the game. Nations is a big game and this is a big episode to go along with it!
Welcome to the latest episode. This show, I look at the game Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island by Ignacy Trzewiczek. This is a co-operative worker placement game in which your character is stuck on an island somewhere and have to work to survive. This is a BIG game and there is a lot to say about it... fortunately I keep it brief.
This episode is on the new game by Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc. The game is a cooperative/solo game on the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. However, this game is really just a variant of the classic solitaire card game which I just remembered is sometimes called Klondike...doh! Anyway, as I said, it is just a variant, but one that I found made the game MUCH better than the original. The theme and mechanics work very very well together and make this game much more than the sum of its parts.
This is a game I've been wanting to talk about for a long time. I finally got it out and played it solo again, in part because of the relatively new (as of last September) SoloPlay variant. But not only do I play that variant, I also try out three solitaire specific maps and have a lot of fun with it.
Welcome to episode 50! It's amazing that I have gotten this far and there seems to be no shortage of games to talk about. This time, I look at Navajo Wars by Joel Toppen. I also talk to Joel about the game. It's a very interesting discussion.
This month's game is Cuba Libre. This is a game I've been really excited about playing for a long time. If finally came out about a month ago and I've been learning,playing and enjoying it the last few weeks. This is the 2nd or 3rd game in GMT's COIN series and is co-designed by Volko Ruhnke & Jeff Grossman. The game is about the Cuban Revolution of the 1950's.
This is the post vacation episode so I don't talk about much more than just this show's game. That game is Infection by John Gibson. I interviewed John a few months ago and we talked about this game which was still in beta testing. The game has since been published and is now available. Actually, today is it's 2 month anniversary. Happy game anniversary John. I also briefly talk about my vacation and have a suggestion for travelling with games.
I finally get around to reviewing Onirim's younger brother, Urbion, aka Equilibrion. The game is similar in style and simplicity, however it does have it's own distinct feel. Does the game hold up to it's legacy? It does for me.
In this game I look at mountain climbing. There are two games on the subject and I review the smaller sized one... Disaster on K2 by Tom Decker. As may is a crazy month, this is about all I look at. I do, however, give a brief "explanation" of the event that set the theme behind this game in which 11 climbers died on K2 in a single day.
Today we have another big episode all about infections. First, there is an interview with John Gibson, designer of Infection and being published by Victory Point Games. Then, I give a review of Pandemic comparing both the old and new versions as well as describing the gameplay in general.
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