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Dune Imperium: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Worker Placement, Area Control Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Brett Nienburg, Raul Ramos, Nate Storm Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  3.08 Rundown: Dune Imperium is a stand out hit in recent years with several expansions and a second standalone edition. The player pieces and resources in the images of the game include stickers provided by Levity Games. The game combines two core mechanisms which honestly do not get combined enough, worker placement and deck building. Players will be using their cards to place their workers matching a location symbol on the left-hand side of the card played.  The grey section will award different benefits when the card is played during a turn. This creates an interesti...

Dominion: Hinterlands (First Edition) Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building  Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2011 BGG Weight:  2.54 Introductions: I am slowly going down the rabbit hole of dominion expansions. I found this at a buy and sell. Hinterlands is great for low complexity expansions.  Cards: There are plenty of fun action cards in this expansion. The main new focus on these cards is the bottom text of some. This text will either award a benefit when the card is gained. There are also some cards that have effects that will be active simply for having this card in the game. Like the Duchess that will be gained by a player when they acquire a duchy. The other crucial element of Hinterlands is there are a lot of ways to gain better control of the players deck, through cyclin...

Moon Colony Bloodbath: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Engine Building Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Game Artist:   Franz Vohwinkel Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight :  2.11 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Moon Colony Bloodbath is a very thematically fun game with an interesting concept that feels unique. This is an engine building game in the traditional sense of developing a tableu but it is also a communal deck-building game which will have players and the game adding good and bad cards to the deck. The fun is brought by the silly aesthetic of every players moon base slowly being destroyed as their population runs low, and in response each player's engine is limited in how long it will last. Essentially this is a game where players a...

12 Rivers: Review Information : Mechanics : Drafting, Bid for Turn Order, Resource Management, Set Collection, Point Salad Player Age :   10+ Player Count :  2 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Romain Caterdjian BGG Weight:  2.00 Publisher : Good Games Publishing Time to Play:  45 -75  Minutes  Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published:  2025 Introduction : 12 Rivers is a point salad game, which involves card management to select pearls (marbles) as they roll down the stream of the rivers creating variable turn order. Each round as the players that resolve first will select the action last next round. Essentially players will use three tribe tokens a round to select where to block the pearls, this will either cost the player cards or gain them a card. When all tribe tokens are placed the dice will be released and each time a tribe token stops the pearl, that player will select one pearl ...