Introducing - My Favourite Game. A series of videos focusing only the best of the best that board games have to offer. In each episode Efka and/or Elaine will regale us with tales of their favourite representative of a given board game genre. Finally! A video series that is absolutely guaranteed to provoke as many “do you even like board games?” comments as possible. In our inaugural episode we’ll take a peek at El Grande, a modern classic all the way back from 1995 that very recently got a new coat of beige paint. El Grande is an area majority game a terse calculated fight over how many men y ..read more

What's that law about the title being a yes or no question? The answer is always, yes, right? (No one correct me.) Ha ha, well jokes on you, this one is a straight N.O. How would a board game even save the world? With its dashing smile and can-do attitude? Haaaaaaving said that... I think that maybe Daybreak is as close as we'll get, and I know, I know - that's corny and a tad sensationalist but... I dunno. There's something kinda transcendent about it. Something that makes it more than a board game. Actually, scratch that. That implies that a board game can't ever amount to being transcendent ..read more

There’s something to be said about how much The White Castle achieves with so little space and so little cost. Here’s a game that takes up three times less space than a shoebox and, depending on your board game preferences, might last longer than a pair of wellies. But with utility comes a cost, so let’s take a look at where The White Castle excels, and where it accidentally trims the good bits. Below, is a transcript of the video. Efka: Have we got an exciting board game to talk about today Elaine: Oh, cool, finally a review of Voidfall! Efka: No, no, no, we can't do Voidfall yet, that review ..read more

Who doesn’t love a good two player board game? You don’t have to hunt down a lot of friends to have a good time, and they’re often quite crunchy and fun. There’s so many amazing ones to choose from, and there’s no way to cover all of them in one video, but here’s a selection of ones we think are truly fantastic. Sadly, because this video is unscripted, no transcript this time. See you in two weeks ..read more

I’m not going to mince words, I think we’re entering a new stage in this board game hobby niche thing that we are into - the decline of crowdfunding. Lords of Ragnarok isn’t the first game to drop on our collective lap that’s evidently not very functional, but I think a few more things are happenings. People are becoming more aware of the dangers of backing big projects, publishers like Awaken Realms have to publish them faster and make more of them to remain sustainable, and then of course, there was the “global event” that made people re-evaluate priorities, and ask themselves harder questio ..read more

Just when you think the well of tile laying games like Carcassone is exhausted, here comes Dorfromantik to say, “what if we change it up just a little?” And turns out changing it up just a little means winning the coveted Spiel des Jahres award for 2023 - phoah! That’s a prize if there was one. So what’s the change? Well, dorfromantik removes the possibility of losing, and I imagine when I say that you have more questions than excitement. How in the world does it work? How is it fun? Well, that’s what our review is for. You can watch the video here and read the transcript below. Dear friend ..read more

NPI always had a bit of a tense history with hidden movement games. Elaine outright does not like them at all (more on that in our last episode of Talk Cardboard) and Efka often finds one side quite dull to play. So when one of them makes at least one team member of NPI happy - we know it’s going to be a hit. But City of the Great Machine changes up the formula so much, it leaves us asking, is this even hidden movement anymore? And does that even matter when the game is very evidently quite good ..read more

Five years ago we promised you a review of Brass: Birmingham and this very video is not that. But if you want to find out why so many people love Brass - this very video is going to attempt to explain that in the most roundabout way ..read more

Hello Spacetrepeneurs. To round out our coverage of solo games both on the podcast and on this very YouTube channel we decided to group together some special mentions and make them into a special. It just so happened that they’re all space themed so it would only makes sense for the special to be space themed. It’s nice when everything just sort of falls into place. I’m also pretty stoked to talk about these because they’re all very neat in their own little way and each offers a different experience. And this happens to be the first time NPI is covering a solo role-playing game and I don’t thi ..read more

Hello Spacetrepeneurs. To round out our coverage of solo games both on the podcast and on this very YouTube channel we decided to group together some special mentions and make them into a special. It just so happened that they’re all space themed so it would only makes sense for the special to be space themed. It’s nice when everything just sort of falls into place. I’m also pretty stoked to talk about these because they’re all very neat in their own little way and each offers a different experience. And this happens to be the first time NPI is covering a solo role-playing game and I don’t thi ..read more