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Cascadia Alpine Lakes: Review

Cascadia Alpine Lakes: Review Introduction : Cascadia has become Flatout Games evergreen franchise for good reason. The series is an engaging tile placement puzzle where players are balancing flora and fauna to create a wonderful landscape. The game has a great ease of play with a challenging strategic depth. The franchise has delivered the base game with its expansion, two compatible roll and write games and a junior edition. Alpine Lakes is the latest iteration. Alpine Lakes contains two main twists to the formula, instead of focusing on the animals players are now more (not fully) focused on the terrain. The other twist is no longer is the game played on one layer, instead the terrain will be built upon itself creating many new layers to the puzzle.  Game Anatomy: Habitat Tiles: In this version of Cascadia habitat tiles are now two hexagons connected. These hexagons can appear in any combination of glacier, forest or meadow habitats. These hexagons will a...
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Quagmire: Review

Quagmire: Review Information : Mechanics: Abstract, Pattern Recognition, Pathway Player Age: 8+ Player Count: 2 - 24 Players Time to Play: 25 - 46  Minutes  Game Designer:  Chris Handy Game Artist: Magdalena Markowska Publisher: Perplext Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Perplext games are famous for their Pack O Game  series that contains games in bite sized form to the size of a packet of gum. Over 20 games have been created in this format. A few of these games have had larger interpretations with more happening, larger production and altered player counts or mechanics. Quagmire is a reimplementation of BOG. Instead of being two players Quagmire opens the puzzle up to three and four players.  Quagmire is an abstract game of controlling the frogs path. Every turn a player has to do an action else they will lose points. These actions could be moving f...
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Star Trek Lower Decks Fluxx: Review

Star Trek Lower Decks Fluxx: Review Introduction : There have always been light filler games in this hobby that have hit the market well and created alot of different themed versions. Fluxx is one of these games I played fluxx originally when I entered the hobby and I was intrigued to see how it has progressed. Fluxx is a game that is simple have a goal played and meet the goal. That is how you win fluxx, this is done though by changing the rules in your favour and stealing keepers the cards needed to complete goals. There have been many different themed versions of fluxx with over 40 existing. Each contains their own wrinkle and unique cards for the system. The fluxx on display is Star Trek Fluxx Lower Decks, but the explanation could be taken into any fluxx changing the theme to change your table's preference. Game Anatomy: Keepers: Keepers are ongoing cards played into a player's tableu. These cards will help players meet goals giving them the victory. Most keepe...
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Dice Throne - Druid: Character Spotlight

Dice Throne - Druid: Character Spotlight Information: Mechanics: Engine Builder, Head to Head, Yahtzee Mechanism, Variable Player Powers, Take That Player Age: 14+  Player Count: 2 - 6 Time to Play: 20 - 40 Minutes  Game Designer:  John Heidrich Game Artist:   Manny Trembley, Nick Malara Publisher : Dice Throne Year Published: 2026 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by Let's Play Games. Introduction : The Druid is a flexible character that will change form and shapeshift to the required style at a moment notice. The druid is the standard form which is great for a brief pause to heal his wounds, the bear is the defensive form increasing the defence dice pool and ability, the cat is the aggressive form modifying the attack and wounding the enemy  Complexity : The complexity of the druid is a four. This is due purely to the shapeshift mechanism. It is important for the player to know when to shift, to build good d...
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Dice Throne - Headless Horseman - Character Spotlight

Dice Throne - Headless Horseman - Character Spotlight Information: Mechanics: Engine Builder, Head to Head, Yahtzee Mechanism, Variable Player Powers, Take That Player Age:  14+  Player Count: 2 - 6 Time to Play: 20 - 40 Minutes  Game Designer: Manny Trembley, John Heidrich, Nate Chatellier Game Artist:   Manny Trembley, Nick Malara, Britt Anderson Publisher : Dice Throne Year Published: 2026 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Now that the October Halloween season has commenced. What better way to celebrate this than looking at Dice Thrones character Headless Horseman. Headless Horseman is one of the Outcasts characters that are available through an individual character pack. He is designed from the famous myth popularised by the Sleepy Hollow. In Dice Throne he is an aggressive character with a ticking time bomb in the form of his own pumpkin head. As well as two interesting status effects...
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Finspan - Sharks and Reefs: Review

Finspan - Sharks and Reefs: Review Information: Mechanics: Engine Building, Set Collection Player Age: 10+ Player Count: 1 - 5 Players Time to Play: 45 - 60 Minutes  Game Designer:  Michael O'Connell (II) Game Artist: Catalina Martinez, Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, Mesa Schumacher Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Expansions: Yes Year Published: 2025 BGG Weight: 2.31 Introduction : Finspan is the fish (sea life) equivalent of the famous Wingspan. For the original review click here. This review will focus on the first expansion for Finspan; Sharks and Reefs. In this expansion the cards have increased from 125 cards to 200. With a lot of these new cards focusing on a new reef addition. Reef : In the middle of each player's board. In the twilight section a new board overlay has been placed to include a reef overlay.  Each reef will have a different coloured coral assigned to each dive track. Each coral token will score the players an additio...
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