Expand Your Game

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...

Moytura: Review Information : Mechanics:  Area Control, Two Player Player Age: 12+  Player Count:  1 - 2 Players Time to Play:  45  Minutes  Game Designer: Trevor Benjamin, David Thompson (I) Game Artist: A. Giroux, Harry Conway Publisher: Bitewing Games Year Published: 2026 BGG Weight: 2.25 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Azure was my first entry in the Mythos line by Bitewing games. Moytura is my latest venture into this line of two player games. Moytura is an area control game of region supremacy where players aren't only competing with the other player but are having to manage the swarm of the three enemies as they fill the board. Whichever player (or enemy) has the most points after two scoring rounds is the winner. Game Anatomy: Board: The board contains a score track surrounding the outside of the board, in which each player and the group of enemies will place a score marker...

Dune Imperium Bloodlines: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Worker Placement, Area Control, Engine Building Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen, Phil Amylon, Andy Clautice, Caleb Vance Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Derek Herring, Raul Ramos, Nate Storm Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.66 Introduction: Dune Imperium is a great game combining the mechanisms of deck builders and worker placement. This game has two iterations now Dune Imperium and Dune Uprising. The expansion Bloodlines like all of the previously released expansions works for both iterations for the game.  However, this time there is content in Bloodlines that is only relatable to Uprising. Covering the unique features of contracts, spies and sandstorms, there are various deck cards, intrigue cards a range of contracts and lea...

Dune Imperium: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Worker Placement, Area Control Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Brett Nienburg, Raul Ramos, Nate Storm Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  3.08 Rundown: Dune Imperium is a stand out hit in recent years with several expansions and a second standalone edition. The player pieces and resources in the images of the game include stickers provided by Levity Games. The game combines two core mechanisms which honestly do not get combined enough, worker placement and deck building. Players will be using their cards to place their workers matching a location symbol on the left-hand side of the card played.  The grey section will award different benefits when the card is played during a turn. This creates an interesti...