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...