A board game of the popular video game Darkest Dungeon is currently being Kickstarted. It's a Cooperative Dungeon Crawler kind of game with lots of miniatures to die for. Sounds familiar? Yes, it does, yes it does. BUT, it seems kind of cool. The game is designed by Nick Niotis (Super Fantasy Brawl) and newcomer Argyris Pouggouras and takes about 90 minutes to play for 1 - 4 monster-slaying gamers. The core box will have a TON of content and the box looks like something close to Gloomhaven, and oh, did I mention this will only be released on Kickstarter? No? Well, it is. So ..read more

Two additional houses for the excellent board game Dune, Tleilaxu, and Ixians. These factions will bring some new fresh mechanics and obviously everything else you need like tokens, player sheets, rulebook, and 30 cards. TLEILAXU This faction is led by a small council of Tleilaxu Masters, a xenophobic and fanatic group, experts at genetic engineering.  IXIAN This faction is lead by the cyborg Prince Rhombur of House Vernius. They have mastered unique technologies that only they know how to deploy. Both the Ixians and the Tleilaxu are integral to the economy of CHOAM an ..read more

The legendary German designer Stefan Feld have a new game in the pipe, Bonfire, which is a engine-builder kind of game that involves a board, cards, meeples, chits etc, pretty much everything you would expect from a Feld design. The theme of the game is explained like so: The bonfires are sources of light, energy and warmth created by the guardians of light in order to brighten the cities on the otherwise dark planet. The residents of the cities however, took the bonfires for granted and exploited them for their personal gain. Disappointed the guardians of light retreated and let the bonfires ..read more

A fully simultaneous deck-builder sure sounds interesting and Philosophia: Floating World promises to be just that. Combine this with ideas from games like Race for the Galaxy and Inis, together with artwork of Edo Japan, and it sounds like good times indeed. Players will take roles as one of six unique characters from Edo Japan each with a unique power and goals. Gameplay will occur simultaneously over three phases, meaning there will be no downtime and no upkeep, all creating a very streamlined experience according to the designer. A close-up on some of the cards in ..read more

A product labeled as "a quick entry to Dungeons and Dragons" is being released on the first of October 2020 according to the publisher Hasbro. Let's have a quick look, shall we? The game is essentially a coop dungeon crawler, but unlike traditional games in the genré, the role of the Dungeon Master passes from player to player each turn, which sounds like a fresh winter breeze coming down from the Spine of the World. Speaking of the which, the setting for the adventures is the famous Neverwinter area in Faerun. Players are able to customize their heroes to some extent, but you are tied to the ..read more

A cool little game with a pretty original theme has caught our eye. It's being Kickstarted right now. Let's see what it's about, shall we? Roll Camera is a movie-making, cooperative game where you and your fellow players take on the roles as movie producers. You'll use dice placement to build movie-sets, shoot scenes, edit the movies, etc, all while trying to solve problems occuring on the way, be under budget, and ahead of schedule. Fail and it will mean the doom of the company! The game supports solo play and up to 4 players taking on different roles in the production team wit ..read more

Stefan Feld is working on a remake of the classic game Bruges, which essentially is Bruges with a couple of expansions and some changes to make a smoother game play. Let's see what's what. In Bruges you were a merchant competing with other merchants for power, influense, and status. You did so by playing cards and throwing dice to complete various actions like building canals or houses within the city of Bruges, or trying ot avoid distasters (if you have played other Stefan Feld games you know what this means). Good fun, a card / board game cleverly designed by one of the masters of ..read more

We covered the Anachrony: Fractures of Time Kickstarter a year back, and in this Kickstarter, there were a couple of expansion modules included as stretch goals. Those are now contained in this box called Anachrony: Future Imperfect. Let's have a look. The modules are independent of each other and can be combined with all other expansion modules. There's 3 of them: Hypersync allows you to perform a Capital action without actually placing an Exosuit, then in the future use the new Hypersync Action to make your placement affect the past. This puts a strain on the sp ..read more

A worker-placement game set in the very famous Fallout universe has been released! We are talking about Fallout Shelter: The Board Game, based on the popular mobile game. The game looks promising with top-notch artwork and some cool mechanics. Weight-wise it will be on the lighter side, and will play in about one hour. It will support two to four players, which will all take the role of vault officers controlling the population of the vault. This is done by after classic worker-placement fashion where you place workers to receive resources like water, food, and electricity ..read more

The long-awaited "big box release" for Terraforming Mars is going to be on Kickstarter in the near future (date set for 9th of June or so). But what does this mean? Well, let's find out. The details are not 100% clear at this point, but here's what we know so far; The box itself will be 30,5cm x 30,5cm with an impressive height of 20cm. In inches, this would be 12″ x 12″ x 8″. Should be plenty of rooms for all expansions. A couple of promo cards, most probably new corporations and project cards. Our guess is there will be something for each expansion up to date. Loads of 3D til ..read more