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Mycelia: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:   Area Control, Engine Building Player Age:  10+ Player Count: 1- 4 Players Game Designer and Artist:  J.J. Neville BGG Weight:  2.52 Publisher:  Split Stone Games Time to Play:  40 - 90Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the VR Distribution.  Rundown: Mycelia is a game focusing on the life cycle of mushrooms, including creating spores, mushroom growth, and decay. This game is an interesting combination of area control, tile placement, and tableu building.  Players will be generating spores on the main board in order to fruit new mushrooms. When a mushroom has performed the spore action twice, it may be moved into a state of decay, therefore granting a special ability. Each mushroom player board can have numerous mushrooms in decay, however, if one player has a decayed mushroom in each of their five player boards, the game will...

Captain Flip: Review Information: Mechanics:   Push Your Luck, Memory Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  2 - 5 Players Game Designer:  Remo Conzadori, Paolo Mori Game Artist:  Jonathan Aucomte BGG Weight:  1.20 Publisher:  PlayPunk Time to Play:  20 Minutes  Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the VR Distribution.  Introduction: Captain Flip is a push-your-luck game where players fill their ship with their chosen crew. Each turn a player will draw one character tile and choose to either keep and place the character as they are, or push their luck and flip the character to the other side. The catch is that there are no backsies to this decision so to flip is a permanent choice and may be worse than the first option.  Game Anatomy: Character Tiles: There are nine different characters portrayed throughout the character tiles. Each character tile is double-sided and has either a yello...

Arctic Scavengers: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Hand Management Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:  45 - 60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Robert K. Gabhart Game Artist: Martin Hoffmann Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2015 BGG Weight:  2.26 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Arctic Scavengers is set in a post-apocalyptic world where your goal is based purely on banding survivors together to create the largest community. Whoever has the most points on their card (signified by the number of people shown on the bottom left of the card) at the end of the game is the winner. This is a deck-building game with three main card types. The first type is a person. These cards will add to your victory points, unlike the other cards that aid people in your community. They will sometimes have abilities on the bottom of the card and conta...

Viticulture - Tuscanny: Review Information: Mechanics:  Worker Placement, Engine Building, Contracts, Hand Management Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 6  Players Time to Play:  60 - 150  Minutes  Game Designer:   Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Game Artist:  Beth Sobel Publisher : Stonemaier Games  Year Published:  2016 BGG Weight:  3.27 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Viticulture is one of Stonemaier Games’ evergreen titles. For the full review of Viticulture, click here . Viticulture Tuscany is a large box expansion with three modules that can be played either separately or combined. This expansion comes with an extended board, special workers, and structures.  Expanded Board: The extended board increases what you can do in both the Spring and Autumn seasons. Additionally, there are now worker locations consisting of the four seasons instead of simply Summer a...

Rivages: Review Information: Mechanics: Drafting, Flip and Write, Multi-Use Cards  Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 - 5  Players Time to Play:   20 - 30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Joachim Thôme Game Artist:  Xavier Gueniffey Durin Publisher : Pandasaurus Games, Catch Up Games Year Published:  2024 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher and Lets Play Games. Introduction: Rivages has players venturing through forgotten islands to rediscover lost knowledge. During the game, players are drafting exploration cards and filling multiple islands in an attempt to score points through the completion of quests and missions. This is a game that is brimming with combos and variability as each island has unique challenges. Game Anatomy: Islands: Islands are filled with different terrains, including those that cannot be crossed and white area that can be marked with any terrain type. On each island are two boats, one wh...