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Quagmire: Review Information : Mechanics: Abstract, Pattern Recognition, Pathway Player Age: 8+ Player Count: 2 - 24 Players Time to Play: 25 - 46  Minutes  Game Designer:  Chris Handy Game Artist: Magdalena Markowska Publisher: Perplext Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Perplext games are famous for their Pack O Game  series that contains games in bite sized form to the size of a packet of gum. Over 20 games have been created in this format. A few of these games have had larger interpretations with more happening, larger production and altered player counts or mechanics. Quagmire is a reimplementation of BOG. Instead of being two players Quagmire opens the puzzle up to three and four players.  Quagmire is an abstract game of controlling the frogs path. Every turn a player has to do an action else they will lose points. These actions could be moving f...

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...

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...

Azure: Review Information : Mechanics: Abstract, Resource Management, Two-Playe, Race to Points Player Age:  10+  Player Count:  2 Players Time to Play:  20  Minutes  Game Designer:   Trevor Benjamin, Brett J. Gilbert Game Artist:   Kwanchai Moriya Publisher:  Bitewing Games Year Published:  2026 BGG Weight:   2.00 Disclaimer:   A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Azure is a spatial placement abstract game where players race to place strategically to achieve 25 points first. There are only 14 stones per player if a player cannot place a stone whether by lack of available placement or by running out of stones they will lose. The benefit that players have is as long as a stone isn't blocked by a mountain it will provide a discount for any placement being placed in the same row and column. These discounts will stack, creating a lower priority for cards as the game progresses. ...

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...

Toy Battle: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Head to Head, Hand Management, Abstract Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  2  Players Game Designer:  Paolo Mori, Alessandro Zucchini Game Artist:  Paul Mafayon BGG Weight:  1.45 Publisher:  Repos Production, Asmodee Time to Play:  15   Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Asmodee Rundown: Toy Battle is an abstract head to head game that is thematically wrapped in a battle between toys. The goal is simple, reach the other players HQ with a troop or gain a certain amount of victory points by fully surrounding regions. On a turn a player can either draw two troops or play a troop. A player can place their troop on either an empty location, one of their existing troops, the opponents HQ or an opponents troop with a lower value. The troop the player places has to have a connected path back to their HQ to be able to ...