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Azul Queen’s Garden Review

Azul Queen’s Garden Review

Welcome to our latest review. We'd planned to have this out last week, but our sale took a bunch more time than usual. Anyways - We've already reviewed Plan B Games' Azul, and now we are turning our attention to Azul Queen's Garden. In this game, you are a gardener...

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Paleo Review

Paleo Review

Welcome to our review of Hans Im Gluck and Z-Man Games' Paleo! Have you ever dreamed of being a caveman at the dawn of civilization? Not a question you hear every day, but it's one you'll be facing when you sit down to play this game. In Paleo, 2 to 4 players...

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Sleeping Gods Review

Sleeping Gods Review

Welcome to our review of Red Raven Games' Sleeping Gods. Do you love intense narrative-driven games as much as we do?! This game is unique in that while it is a campaign game, it doesn't have a set start and end point for each play session. It's designed to be easy to...

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Transmissions Review

Transmissions Review

Welcome to our review of CrossCut Games' Transmissions. It's not often we come across a game such as this, and we wanted to share it with you. Transmissions is a visually gorgeously illustrated game designed by Adam West with illustrations by Matt Dixon.  If...

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Bureau of Investigation Review

Bureau of Investigation Review

Welcome to our next review of Space Cowboys' Bureau of Investigation. If you've played Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, then you know how this game plays out. It uses the same model but with a finite endpoint. Did we mention it's set in Boston and...

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Dune: House Secrets Review

Dune: House Secrets Review

Welcome to our Review of Portal Games' Dune: House Secrets. This game is one of many Dune-based games out there, and we were excited to try this one out. It's in the style of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, so if you have played that and loved it, you'll love...

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AuZtralia Review

AuZtralia Review

Welcome to our review of Schilmil and Stronghold Games Auztralia. Here's a statement I never thought I'd make while writing a game review. Have you ever wanted to play a game like Ticket to Ride, set in Australia with Cthulu? If the answer is yes, here's a game for...

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Star Wars: Imperial Assault Review

Star Wars: Imperial Assault Review

Welcome to our next review of another good game from Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars: Imperial Assault. We know this game came out ages ago, in 2014 to be exact, but this is a "new to us" game and we wanted to try it out! If you've been reading our articles for a...

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Star Wars: UNLOCK Review

Star Wars: UNLOCK Review

Welcome to our review of Space Cowboys' Star Wars: UNLOCK. This game is one of many UNLOCK escape room games in the series.  This article will be a relatively short review compared with our longer reviews. Much of what happens in this game is hidden and is...

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