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Dog Park: Review Information: Mechanics:  Time Track, Area Majority, Set Collection Player Age: 10 + Player Count: 1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  40 - 80  Minutes  Publisher : Birdwood Games Game Designer:  Lottie Hazell, Jack Hazell Game Artist: Kate Avery, Holly Exley, Dann May Year Published: 2022 BGG Weight:  2.16 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dog Park is a game themed around the lavish lifestyle of being a dog walker. Players will play over four rounds, selecting new dogs to add to the kennel, selecting which dogs to send on walks, at what pace, and what locations to stop at during the walk and finally returning the dogs home. Players are pursuing reputation from their objective card, some dogs end-game scoring, and largely the set collection of certain breeds. Players will have to be willing to change the dogs they are walking, as well as the dogs in their kennel to fully o...

Clank Catacombs: Lairs and Lost Chambers - Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration, Tile Placement Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Anika Burrell, Nate Storm, Dan Taylor (II) Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.60 Introduction: Clank Catacombs is a standalone cross-compatible edition of clank. My original review can be read here. This edition does not have a static map, instead it is a more explorative version with new locations and pathways revealed through tiles.  Lairs and Lost Chambers is an expansion that can easily be shuffled into the base game adding two new location types lairs which hide specific monsters and lost chambers which are similar to way shrines from the base game but contain different rewards and costs to placing down ...

Everdell Farshore: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Worker Placement, Engine Builder Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players  Time to Play:  40 - 80  Minutes  Game Designer:   James. A. Wilson, Clarissa A. Wilson Game Artist:    Jacqui Davis Publisher : Tychoon Games, Starling Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  2.83 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Lets Play Game. Refresh: Farshore is a streamlined version of the original game  Everdell  in many ways. As played in the base game, a player will either place a worker, play a construction/critter, or recall from the round. Players need to remember that they can play cards from the central board area (bay) throughout the game. The cards continue to come in the form of; unique (only one instance of this card allowed in a town), and common (any amount of duplicates allowed).  These car...

Ex Libris: Review Information: Mechanics:   Set Collection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement, Variable Player Powers  Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Adam P. McIver Game Artist:  Anita Osburn, Jacqui Davis Time to Play:  45 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the Lets Play Games.  Introduction: Ex Libris is a fantasy-filled adventure into the organisational world of a library. Players are sending out workers to gain and shelf new books into their tableu. Be careful with the book placement as there are strict scoring rules on alphabetical order, shelf stability, and favoured genres. Game Anatomy: Book Cards: Each book card has a letter on the top left. Next to these are two numbers, the second of which will tell you how many cards of this letter appear in the deck, where the first number will determine the card’s sequential order. E...

Heroscape - Battle for Wellspring: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:   Skirmish, Modular Player Age:  14+ Player Count: 2 Players (up to 4 with another base set) Game Designer:  Stephen Baker, Dan Blanchett, Rob Daviau, Matt Hyra, Sarah Rowan, Craig Van Ness Game Artist:  Yugin Maffioli, Corey Rivera, Unreal Studio Works Time to Play:  30 - 60 Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the Lets Play Games.  Rundown : Heroscape is a very easy and intuitive skirmish game. There is an easier ruleset for younger players but for this review I will be focusing on the master ruleset. Although the game is easy to learn, there is much to cover, so this review won't include every intricacy but it will help to explain the core principles. Throughout several rounds, players are going to focus on defeating their opponent on a battlefield constructed with hex pieces. Each player will have an arm...