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Aspens: Ancient Artifacts Review Information : Mechanics : Resource Management, Abstract, Area Control  Player Age : 10+ Player Count : 2 Players Game Designer: Neil Edwards, Luke Roberts BGG Weight: 1.75 Publisher : Ludivore Games Time to Play: 20 - 45 Minutes  Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published: 2025 Introduction : Aspens is an abstract area control game where players are trying to grow their forest wider to win and larger to adjust the luck of the dice in their favour. For the original review click here. Aspens Ancient Artifacts create game changing powers to the game that can be used as a free action on a later turn, gained by the first  player to possess four trees adjacent to the token first. Setup : As part of setup six artifact tokens are drawn from the bag and placed in the below locations.  The players will then find the matching cards and display them next to t...

Ten Wickets: Rapid Review Information : Mechanics : Bidding, Hand Management Player Age :   8+ Player Count : 2 Players Game Designer: Ryan Boucher Game Artist : Pepalworks Publisher : Seabrook Studios Time to Play: 10 - 30  Minutes  Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published: 2024 Rundown : Ten Wickets by Seabrook Studios is a game themed around cricket, which as someone that doesn't follow sports it didn't originally intrigue me. There is no reason to be scared away by the theme though, the game does not relate to sport as much as people might think. Instead Ten Wickets is a smart auction duel between two players only. Players will auction for wicket cards in pursuit of gaining ten Wickets first, but every time they claim a winning bid on a wicket the other player will gain that bid as points. How much is each wicket worth in the players pursuit to ten Wickets first.   The turns are quick, on...

Aspens - Majestic Marvels: Review : Information : Mechanics : Resource Management, Abstract, Area Control  Player Age : 10+ Player Count : 2 Players Game Designer: Neil Edwards, Luke Roberts BGG Weight: 1.75 Publisher : Ludivore Games Time to Play: 20 - 45 Minutes  Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published: 2025 Introduction : Aspens is a fun abstract game where players are focused on building a forest to manipulate the dice in their favour whether they are spreading trees, so the direction die does not affect them or adding more trees to a space to increase the possibility of gaining trees more often. In the base game players are trying to spread their trees creating closed off areas resulting in large cascades (cascades is a way to fill multiple locations at once by closing off access to the opponent). For the original review of the original game click here. In the original game each player scored each locatio...

Crayne: Fractured Empire - Review Information: Mechanics:  Player Elimination, Head to Head, Deck Building, Simultaneous  Player Age: 12+ Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  30 - 90 Minutes  Publisher : Krunchy Games Game Designer: Chris Fielder Game Artist: Matthew Burger, Devin Hoyt, Luiz Prado Year Published: 2021 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Deck building and head to head games are two of my favourite genres in board games. So I love when they are combined well. For my collection Shards of Infinity, Command of Nature and Power Rangers Deck Building Game come to mind instantly.  Is Crayne going to be a new addition to this prestige? Crayne interestingly slows down the decision space by having each card played one at a time out of a hand of three cards, but speeds up the pace by mostly being simultaneous.  In Crayne Fractured Empire, players are bu...

Dog Park: Review Information: Mechanics:  Time Track, Area Majority, Set Collection Player Age: 10 + Player Count: 1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  40 - 80  Minutes  Publisher : Birdwood Games Game Designer:  Lottie Hazell, Jack Hazell Game Artist: Kate Avery, Holly Exley, Dann May Year Published: 2022 BGG Weight:  2.16 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dog Park is a game themed around the lavish lifestyle of being a dog walker. Players will play over four rounds, selecting new dogs to add to the kennel, selecting which dogs to send on walks, at what pace, and what locations to stop at during the walk and finally returning the dogs home. Players are pursuing reputation from their objective card, some dogs end-game scoring, and largely the set collection of certain breeds. Players will have to be willing to change the dogs they are walking, as well as the dogs in their kennel to fully o...