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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, RadosÅ‚aw 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 the...

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.  ...

Corps of Discovery Expansion 3 Maldonado: Review

Corps of Discovery Expansion 3 Maldonado: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Cooperative, Scenario Based Player Age:  14+  Player Count:   1  - 4  Players Time to Play:  60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim Game Artist:   Matthew Roberts Publisher : Off the Page Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Introduction : Corps of Discovery is a great game that I have talked about on numerous occasions, it is a challenging survival game, every time I think I have a good understanding of the puzzle I explore the next expansion that completely changes the decisions, exploration and concept and flips how to survive and meet the objective. This expansion features a scenario based around Maldonado. Maldonado wants to kill the crew by having a stronger value then their influence value.  ...

Corps of Discovery Expansion 4 Fog: Review

Corps of Discovery Expansion 4 Fog: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Cooperative, Scenario Based Player Age:  14+  Player Count:   1  - 4  Players Time to Play:  60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim Game Artist:   Matthew Roberts Publisher : Off the Page Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Corps of Discovery is a great game that was released last year. This works as a cooperative survival game at the forefront but secondary is a deduction puzzle that is crucial for the players to analyse to get the right terrain they are seeking or resolve the scenario. slowly all the expansions are being covered, for the initial review click here. This review focused on the fourth expansion, The Fog. Goal: Unlike the other scenarios the resource rules for the terrain are completely ...

Doom Cat: Review

Doom Cat: Review Information: Mechanics : Roll and Write, Variable Setup  Player Age :  14+ Player Count :  1 - 99 (need more copies based on amount of players wanted)  Players Game Designer:  Dylan Coyle Game Artist:  Dylan Coyle, Lailamon BGG Weight:  1.50 Publisher:  Charming Games Collective Time to Play:  10 - 60 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Introduction: Doom Cat is a fast and very variable roll and write game that focuses on a simple concept of drawing lines between two candle values. Each turn the number not used will result in that candle being knocked over, unable to use for the rest of the game.  The smart element of the game is each card is double sided containing a sigil (the board) on one side and either a goal or a familiar on the other side. Each game will contain three goals so there is plenty of variability in the game. The game will also come in three different boxes containing easie...