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Dominion: 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:  2008 BGG Weight:  2.35 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Dominion is the first board game that took deck-building as its main mechanism. Deck-building is a great genre of board games that's always evolving and it is one of my favourite mechanisms. However, does the original mechanism of this game hold up to today's standards? Card Anatomy: Treasure: Treasure cards are the main form of currency throughout the game. They come in copper (1 money), silver (2 money), and gold (3 money). As the game progresses, it is a strategy to fill the player's deck with more beneficial treasure like gold and sometimes silver, and remove the coppers from the deck. Act...

Battle For Hoth: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics: Head to Head, Dice Rolling, Scenario, Asymmetric  Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  2 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Richard Borg, Adrien Martinot Game Artist:  Ben Carre, Christophe Duhaze, Clément Masson BGG Weight: 1.92 Publisher: Days of Wonder, Asmodee Time to Play: 30 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Asmodee Introduction: Battle For Hoth is the first space re-imagining of the classic Memoir 44 game. One player will play as the Rebel Alliance, who will then verse the Galactic Empire. This is a head-to-head dice chucker where the main aim is to eliminate the opposing squads (unit groupings). This is a game that is accompanied by a separate rulebook filled with scenarios that shake up the gameplay. For core gameplay, the active player will select one of their tactic cards that will then tell the playe...

Mechanica: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Tile Placement, Engine Building, Recipe Fufillment Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  35 - 75  Minutes  Game Designer:  Mary Flanagan, Emma Hobday, Max Seidman Game Artist:  Cisco Garrido,  Mariana Sosa, A nn-Sophie De Steur,  Spring Yu Publisher : Resonym Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.33 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown : Mechanica is an engine-building bot fulfilment game. Players are trying to create paths for the bots that are generated on the left side of their board. Funnelling these bots through machines that generate duplicate bots, upgrades, downgrades or other ways to generate money or re-orient the bots until they reach the final truck. Bots can be sold at the trucks at their various levels white, orange, and purple bots can sell for 2, 4 or 6 money. Instead, the p...

River Valley Glassworks: Review Information: Mechanics:  Pattern Building, Drafting, Set Collection Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  25 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle Game Artist:  Andrew Bosley Publisher : AllPlay Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  1.51 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: River Valley Glassworks is a clever tile placement/drafting game where players collect glass pieces from the river to then build columns of unique colours across full rows. Players create drafting opportunities for other players as they place glass pieces into the river to collect all the pieces from an adjacent river tile. This is one of the games that is easy to understand but challenging to master.  This review is based on the wonderfully produced deluxe components.  Game Anatomy: G...

Coloretto: Review Information: Mechanics:  Drafting, Push Your Luck Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Michael Schacht Game Artist:  Michael Schacht, Guido Favaro, Oksana Svistun Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2003 BGG Weight:  1.27 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Coloretto is a fast, push-your-luck, set collection game where players choose to either take an existing card pile to keep, or draw a new card and place it in an available pile. At the end of the game, only three colours can score positively and other colours will score as normal but be worth negative points. Card Anatomy: Chameleons: There are seven colours of chameleons, each with nine cards.  There are also two wild (joker) chameleons that are put aside when collected and may be added to any pile at the ...