Expand Your Game

Surf's Up: Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Builder, Engine Builder, Bidding, Bluffing Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 6  Players  Time to Play:  20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Jay Bendixen Game Artists:  Jay Bendixen Publisher:  Good Games Publishing Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and  Lets Play Games. Introduction: Surf's Up has a players starting with energy cards of 0 - 5 bidding for the next wave (ocean card). The highest value gains the ocean card and the points connected to it, as a winner or runner up you may also buy more cards to add to your hand or improve your scoring. The catch is that anytime a player wins a bid they remove their used energy card from the game, so this is also a timer on the game. When a player has only the zero card left in their hand or five bluebottles have been bidded on, the game wil...

Mercurial: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Builder, Engine Builder, Resource Management, Hand Management , Dice Rolling Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players  Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  David Goh Game Artists: David Goh, Agus Setiawan, Thomas Tan, Jeannette Wang, Chen Wei, Yang Shao Xuan, Beverley Yim Publisher: Good Games Publishing Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  3.12 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and  Lets Play Games. Rundown: Mercurial is a spell-slinging game where players are building a hand of alterations as they slowly channel the engine that is their spells. On a player's turn they will either take and play, or cast their spell. Once a player has gained a number of heroic cards based on player count (2, 3, 4 players = 5, 4, 3 heroics) the game will end and one last spell for each player will oc...

Expeditions: Review Information: Mechanics:  Point Salad, Area Control, Engine Building, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Hand-Building Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jamey Stegmaier Game Artist:   Jakub Rozalski Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  3.03 Introduction: Expeditions is a sequel to Stonemaier’s beloved Scythe . It uses the same universe and artist as the original Scythe but is unique in its gameplay.  Expeditions is a hand-builder game with light exploration and a very unique implementation of worker placement that has workers being placed as cards are played. This is instead of a more traditional worker placement game with pre-determined or random worker locations. The game will continue until one player has boasted four times then each player will have one last turn before scoring. Game Anatomy: Player Par...