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Rival Restaurants: Review Information : Mechanics : Resource Management, contract fulfillment, real-time, negotiation  Player Age :   10+ Player Count :  2 - 6 Players Game Designer:  Gary Alaka, Rob Chew, Jon Kang Game Artist:  Audrey Jung BGG Weight: 2.21 Publisher : Gap Closer Games Time to Play:  45 -:60  Minutes  Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published:  2019 Introduction : Rival Restaurants has players fulfilling basic and gourmet recipes in pursuit of reaching 20 points (known as ‘popularity’) first. As each completed recipe will produce rubbish, if this garbage isn't maintained throughout the game the player will lose one point per garbage at the end of the game. The game is a mix of the chaotic energy that comes from both real-time and negotiation games. Every round the main phase will last for one minute and players can buy at the location they have picked, as...

Aspens: 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 fast playing two player area control game. During the game players will roll the two dice determining what forests will grow trees and which direction trees can spread in. With successful plays players can close sections of the board to create a cascade and fill that entire section with trees. Once the board is full whichever player has the most hexes is the winner. Game Anatomy: The Board: The board is made during setup and is filled with numerous hexes, direction on the borders of the board and water tiles that determine starting trees and c...

Dominion Seaside: 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:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.23 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Dominion is a great Deck-Building game one of the core examples of pure Deck-Building. For the original review click here. This review is focused on the expansion of Seaside. The main focus of this expansion is easily the new card type, duration cards. These cards are represented by their orange border. They may be introduced in this set, but they are a re-occuring card type appearing in seven more expansions.  Action Cards: The duration action cards are the focus but there are still some standard action cards in this expansion. Like most of the action cards in Dominion they may seem general ...

Dogs With Jobs: Review Information: Mechanics : Hand Management, Multi-Use Cards Player Age :  7 + Player Count :  2 - 5 Players Game Designer:  John Gordon Game Artist:  Jonathan Wesslund BGG Weight: 2.00 Publisher : Lab 380  Time to Play: 15 - 3 0 Minutes  Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.  Year Published:  2025 Introduction: Dog with Jobs is a hand management game where players recruit a team of up to four unique dog units to then complete jobs. The more jobs a player's team completes, the more positive points they gain. Negative points are gained by having dog units with incomplete jobs or jobs (cards) remaining in hand after the eight rounds. As players recruit their dogs they unlock unique abilities to produce stronger actions and manipulate the game state. For a unit of dogs to complete a job they need to meet or exceed the job number. Game Anatomy: Jobs: Jobs will come in one of five ca...

Tag Team: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Auto Battler, Shufflebuild Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  2  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Gricha German, Corentin Lebrat Game Artist:  Xavier Gueniffey Durin Publisher : Scorpion Masque Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  2.04 Rundown : Tag Team is a auto battler/ deck building game. Auto battlers are new in this space so some players may be hesitant. This game has such a larger decision space than would be expected from a term auto battler.  Players will choose two widely different characters and create a tag team, their cards will be shuffled together, during the game the player will be adding to their deck but keeping the cards in the same order they placed. Each round player will have a game of war. Where the top card of the deck is revealed simultaneously, each player's card will revolve at the same time. The character that will...