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 ...
Dominion - Cornucopia and Guilds: Review Information: Mechanics: Deck-Building Player Age: 14+ Player Count: 2 - 4 Players Time to Play: 30 Minutes Game Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published: 2024 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: This is quite a welcoming expansions for dominion. With 26 new kingdom stacks, there are plenty that focus on variety but also some new mechanisms introduced. Including the new token type coffers, which act as a bank of coins that can be dipped into on future turns and a method to overpay gaining additional benefits when purchasing the card if the card was overpayed. Cards: There are plenty of cards in this expansion that add variability. Most of them are focused on action cards. There are a few attack cards in this expansion with two in particular that are more i...