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Dogs With Jobs: Review

Dogs With Jobs: Review Information: Mechanics : Hand Management, Multi-Use Cards Player Age :  7 + Player Count :  2 - 5 Players Game Designer:  John Gordon Game Artist:  Jonathan Wesslund BGG Weight: 2.00 Publisher : Lab 380  Time to Play: 15 - 3 0 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Introduction: Dog with Jobs is a hand management game where players recruit a team of up to four unique dog units to then complete jobs. The more jobs a player's team completes, the more positive points they gain. Negative points are gained by having dog units with incomplete jobs or jobs (cards) remaining in hand after the eight rounds. As players recruit their dogs they unlock unique abilities to produce stronger actions and manipulate the game state. For a unit of dogs to complete a job they need to meet or exceed the job number. Game Anatomy: Jobs: Jobs will come in one of five ca...
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Tag Team: Rapid Review

Tag Team: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Auto Battler, Shufflebuild Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  2  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Gricha German, Corentin Lebrat Game Artist:  Xavier Gueniffey Durin Publisher : Scorpion Masque Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  2.04 Rundown : Tag Team is a auto battler/ deck building game. Auto battlers are new in this space so some players may be hesitant. This game has such a larger decision space than would be expected from a term auto battler.  Players will choose two widely different characters and create a tag team, their cards will be shuffled together, during the game the player will be adding to their deck but keeping the cards in the same order they placed. Each round player will have a game of war. Where the top card of the deck is revealed simultaneously, each player's card will revolve at the same time. The character that will...
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Dominion Prosperity: Review

Dominion Prosperity: Review 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:  2010 BGG Weight:  2.45 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Dominion is a great Deck-Building game for the original review click here . It has a good level of variability built in. Each expansion nearly doubles this range by adding at least 300 more cards. Prosperity focuses on two components treasures, and a new mechanism of victory tokens. Treasure Cards: The four main card types in the game are actions, reaction, victory and treasures. This expansion is all about the treasures. There are nine new treasure cards that award the players money but they also introduce additional effects without having to plan a deck around gaining more actions, si...
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Dominion - Nocturne: Review

Dominion - Nocturne: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Game Artist : Matthias Catrein, Elisa Cella, Garret DeChellis, Radosław Jaszczuk Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2017 BGG Weight:  2.9 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Dominion is a classic deck of game, of assessing the setup and working towards an efficient deck to score the most points. For the original review click here . This review is focused on the expansion Nocturne. The expansion is packed with content at 500 cards featuring 33 new kingdom cards and an array of other decks of cards. There are an array of new types of cards in this expansion, one prominent card type from earlier expansions is the duration cards that have effects that last longer than the turn th...
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Timber Town: Review

Timber Town: Review Information: Mechanics : Tile Placement, Variable Setup, Drafting Player Age :   10+ Player Count :  2 Players Game Designer:  Ryan Boucher Game Artist:  Isabelle Overturf BGG Weight:  1.80 Publisher :  Seabrook Studios, Alley Cat Games   Time to Play:  30 - 45 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Introduction: Timber Town is a clever two-player point salad game that has players drafting select tiles to create a thriving town. There are varied scoring possibilities that will be randomised each game so these thriving towns can be as unique as possible. The clever twist to this game is that there is a shifting river board that will be used to draft tiles. Every round the river drops one side of the board and returns to the starting position on the opposite side to be filled with new tiles. When drafting, each player can only place the tile they are drafting into the column that matches in their river below.  ...
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