Our LOTRED set has actually been around since 2009, but we’ve finally made it available here on geektopia both for live and online play! Check out the entire set of 26 decks and 8 maps. The original LOTRED project was a collaboration between myself (Roman) and the Epic Duels online community, where we developed 12 …
With only a couple of hours left for gaming after advancing our epic Pathfinder adventure, we were able to play through a game of Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure (2016) and it was great fun. It’s a deck-building game with a dungeon map, treasure, and a fearsome dragon. You’re a treasure-stealing thief type with your aim to …
So we took the 2011 game The Walking Dead out for a spin last week. It’s an older game now but if I play it, I blog it. Overall Feeling A gritty struggle. That’s the feeling of The Walking Dead game, which is a great fit for its source material, but I don’t know if that’s …
We forayed into the relatively newly released second edition of Mansions of Madness (2016) to experience a Lovecraftian Horror story that caused 2 out of 4 players to go insane, but at least in resulted in a happy ending for (most of) us. We played only the introductory scenario in a session that lasted about 2 …
Scoville is a new-ish (2014) game about hot pepper farming, and you earn the most points by planting the hottest peppers, by selling them to merchants in town, or by using them to learn award-winning chili recipes. Talk about good clean fun! No conquest, no violence, but in the world of hot pepper farmers, the …
As both of my gaming groups and I are all already fans of 7 Wonders, I was excited to get a crack at the still fairly new 7 Wonders Duel. It didn’t disappoint. Overall Feeling If you’re already familiar with 7 Wonders, it’s an outstanding game for the way it makes you feel part of …
Overall Feeling A Feast for Odin is the latest from Uwe Rosenberg of Agricola fame, a worker placement game in an age of Vikings, of farming, of exploration, of good old raiding, pillaging and plundering. You complete with other Viking tribes to gain the most victory points, earned through a variety of different channels like …
We broke in a couple of new games a week or so ago out in Northwest Chicago. The first one we broke out was the 1950s-themed Food Chain Magnate, a fun little business-oriented game where you battle as competing food chains in a single city. Overall Feeling Food Chain Magnate does a nice job of …
Castles of Mad King Ludwig review by Roman For those who know me through Epic Duels, what I love about the game is the way it creates a feeling of the duel that’s happening. You can imagine blasters firing, lightsabers flashing, and characters dropping famous lines and big attacks on one another. That’s sort of …