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Viticulture - Tuscanny: Review Information: Mechanics:  Worker Placement, Engine Building, Contracts, Hand Management Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  60 - 150  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Game Artist:  Beth Sobel Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Year Published:  2016 BGG Weight:  3.27 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Viticulture is one of Stonemaier Games’ evergreen titles. For the full review of Viticulture, click here . Viticulture Tuscany is a large box expansion with three modules that can be played either separately or combined. This expansion comes with an extended board, special workers, and structures.  Expanded Board: The extended board increases what you can do in both the Spring and Autumn seasons. Additionally, there are now worker locations consisting of the four seasons instead of simply Summer a...

Rivages: Review Information: Mechanics: Drafting, Flip and Write, Multi-Use Cards  Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:   20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Joachim Thôme Game Artist:  Xavier Gueniffey Durin Publisher : Pandasaurus Games, Catch Up Games Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and Lets Play Games. Introduction: Rivages has players venturing through forgotten islands to rediscover lost knowledge. During the game, players are drafting exploration cards and filling multiple islands in an attempt to score points through the completion of quests and missions. This is a game that is brimming with combos and variability as each island has unique challenges. Game Anatomy: Islands: Islands are filled with different terrains, including those that cannot be crossed and white area that can be marked with any terrain type. On each island are two boats, one wh...

Dwar7s Winter: Rapid Review Mechanics:  Assymetrical, Hand Builder, Cooperative, Action Points, Hand Management Player Age :  12+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:    30 - 45  Minutes  Game Artist & Designer:   Luís Brueh Year Published:  2018 Publisher:  Vesuvius Media BGG Weight : 2.64 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Dwar7s Winter is a tower defence cooperative game that has players trying to survive the whole Winter, this will be 7 weeks (rounds). Players are doing this by hand building, following the other players shanties, and deploying/moving their dwarves into battle. Each week there are four phases; Enemy Invasion, Preparation, Actions and Resolution. The Enemy Invasion has the monsters moving and attacking, followed by spawning and revealing a new disaster. Note that there will always be monsters equal to the player count plus one). The Preperation has...