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Corps of Discovery: Vameter Expansion Review

Corps of Discovery: Vameter Expansion Review Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Cooperative, Scenario Based Player Age:  8+  Player Count:   1  - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim Game Artist:   Matthew Roberts Publisher : Off the Page Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: The Vameter expansion focuses on a scenario that is about the hunt for Vameter. This will incorporate the crew from the base game. Unlike the other scenarios, players are actually moving their crew around the board on the explored location to hunt down Vameter and a new monster type, cyclops. To win the game the player must shoot the Vameter five times depleting it's health, each time a crew shoots they are placed on the day/night section and get returned to the supply at the start of a ...

Corps of Discovery: Insecta Expansion:

Corps of Discovery: Insecta Expansion: Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Cooperative, Scenario Based Player Age:  8+  Player Count:   1  - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim Game Artist:   Matthew Roberts Publisher : Off the Page Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. The trail of Manifest Destiny is back, if you read the comics you know there is always an issue around the corner on this journey. For the original review click here . Goal: All the Corps of Discovery expansions add a new switch-up on how the challenge works. So to help people understand it's best to explain the goal of this scenario type. The goal itself is simple to eliminate four insects, the monster of this scenario. When they are in play the percent any of the eight spaces around them from being explor...

Battle For Hoth: Rapid Review

Battle For Hoth: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics: Head to Head, Dice Rolling, Scenario, Asymmetric  Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  2 - 4 Players Game Designer:  Richard Borg, Adrien Martinot Game Artist:  Ben Carre, Christophe Duhaze, Clément Masson BGG Weight: 1.92 Publisher: Days of Wonder, Asmodee Time to Play: 30 Minutes  Year Published:  2025 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Asmodee Introduction: Battle For Hoth is the first space re-imagining of the classic Memoir 44 game. One player will play as the Rebel Alliance, who will then verse the Galactic Empire. This is a head-to-head dice chucker where the main aim is to eliminate the opposing squads (unit groupings). This is a game that is accompanied by a separate rulebook filled with scenarios that shake up the gameplay. For core gameplay, the active player will select one of their tactic cards that will then tell the playe...

Leviathan Wilds: Review

Leviathan Wilds: Review Information: Mechanics: Cooperative, Scenario Based, Action Selection Player Age:  10+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Game Designer: Justin Kemppainen Game Artist:  Samuel R. Shimota BGG Weight:  2.48 Publisher:  Moon Crab Games Time to Play:  45 - 90 Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by Moon Crab Games Rundown: Leviathan Wilds appears as a boss battler game but is really a boss-saving game. Players are manoeuvring across these behemoths in pursuit of destroying binding crystals, represented by blue and purple dice, which are causing these creatures to lash out. The players will take turns selecting one card to determine the amount of action points they have then, if they choose to on their turn or another player’s turns, they may play cards from their hand for the text benefit below. Their hand is then redrawn back to three, however, if it is the last card th...

Corps of Discovery: Rapid Review

Corps of Discovery: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deduction, Cooperative, Scenario Based Player Age:  8+  Player Count:   1  - 4  Players Time to Play:  60 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim Game Artist:  Matthew Roberts Publisher : Off the Page Games Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown : Corps of Discovery is based on the Manifest Destiny comic by Image Comics. This comic is filled with pre-settlement exploration and discovery as Lewis and Clark forward the American Frontier. This adventure, however, is filled with unknown monsters. Corps of Discovery takes this theme and translates it perfectly into a cooperative exploration and deduction game. Players are trying to gain enough resources/water to complete incoming challenges, while ultimately completing the goal of the scenario and surviving to see...