General Orders: World War II Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Andrew Lynch
1d ago
For me, General Orders: World War II was a highly anticipated design, authored as it was by the dynamic duo of David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin (Undaunted, War Chest). My interest increased as more information came out. A light wargame that takes thirty minutes to play and uses worker placement? No need to draft me, I volunteer! I was not expecting the box to be so tiny. Well, “tiny” is an overstatement. It’s deep, approaching equilateral cube, but the length and width are surprisingly and endearingly petite. Then you open it, and inside is the tiniest li’l quarter-fold board. This must be ..read more
Visit website
REM Racers Board Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Mark Iradian
2d ago
A little glimpse into my past: Video games were a major passion of mine before I discovered the joys of board games. I doubt my story is unique—like many PC gamers back then, I was obsessed with first-person shooters. But my second love was racing games, though not the uber-realistic sims. I gravitated towards the arcadey racers, where drifting and nitro boosts flowed as freely as coins in a Mario game. As someone who loves board games and has a soft spot for racing video games, my options are quite slim. For the past few years, the only racing board game that has truly captured my heart is H ..read more
Visit website
Railroad Ink: Archipelago Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Justin Bell
3d ago
At SPIEL 2023, I had the chance to meet with one of my favorite publishers, Horrible Guild. They have never done me wrong, with games like Quicksand, Dungeon Fighter, Evergreen, and The Great Split getting rave reviews from our team as well as my personal network. During that meeting, our marketing contact was kind enough to provide a copy of the newest expansion to the Railroad Ink franchise, Archipelago. These new player boards represent four islands, drawn as 4x4 grids that are separated by bridges in a format that is four times the size of the map in the original game, in terms of physical ..read more
Visit website
Apples to Apples Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by K. David Ladage
3d ago
I can remember several days in my personal history with Apples to Apples, such as the first time I played it and discovered that party games do not have to feel devoid of intellectual stimulation; the first time someone had some serious unintended innuendo come about with a play of a card. There was the time one of my best friends made a ten minute argument as to why Michael Jackson was the trump card in this game (i.e., he fits any nearly any adjective that can be played, and he fits them better than just about any other card could). But the one that I remember most was the day Apples to Appl ..read more
Visit website
Doomlings Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by K. David Ladage
4d ago
Not long ago, I discovered Doomlings. The game has all the hallmarks of a winner: easy to learn, quick to play, a constant sound of giggling by the players. The game is a lot of fun! Playing Doomlings Doomlings is a card game. Although you can get/use community play mats, individual player mats, first player tokens, and the like, all that is needed to play are the cards. The base game of Doomlings has three types of cards: Ages, Traits, and Gene Pools. [caption id="attachment_296769" width="600"] The various types of cards in Doomlings.[/caption] Setup Ages are the game’s timer. There are thr ..read more
Visit website
London (Second Edition) Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Bob Pazehoski, Jr.
4d ago
When I find a game I enjoy, or better yet, one my family enjoys, I try to build on that experience. It’s not always as simple as perusing the “Fans Also Like” portion of a game’s listing on BGG. After all, the fact that I like Shakespeare is in no way predictive of the fact that I like Altiplano (which appears on that list), nor does the mechanical composition of either build an effective bridge connecting the two. It just so happens that I like both, as do others, enough so to warrant being connected via BGG’s algorithm.  BGG also offers title lists sorted by mechanics, but, to quote th ..read more
Visit website
Monumental: First Take Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Justin Bell
5d ago
Here are the scariest words in the English language: “During your turn, you may take any of the following actions, any number of times, in any order and combination you want, as long as you have the resources needed to carry them out.” This line, on page five of the English rulebook for the 4X-ish deckbuilding skirmish game Monumental (2020, Funforge), frightened me when I read it. In the wrong hands, a player could take a lot of actions on their turn while taking time to consider what they wanted to do on a turn…all while three other players would be waiting for the active player to wrap thin ..read more
Visit website
Wroth Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Andrew Lynch
6d ago
I did not expect to be playing Wroth within ten minutes of sitting down. Chip Theory’s latest offering, a collaboration with designer and artist Manny Trembley, is an area control game with remarkably straightforward rules. This may be unfair to Chip Theory Games, but I have not previously associated the publisher of Too Many Bones and Cloudspire with approachability. Nevertheless, I found Wroth easy to get going. Better still, even while dealing with some of the issues that can plague a preview copy—poor printing on neoprene mats, as-yet-unclear action icons, some minor balance issues that t ..read more
Visit website
Focused on Feld: Vienna Game Review
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by David McMillan
6d ago
Hello and welcome to ‘Focused on Feld’. In my Focused on Feld series of reviews, I am working my way through Stefan Feld’s entire catalogue. Over the years, I have hunted down and collected every title he has ever put out. Needless to say, I’m a fan of his work. I’m such a fan, in fact, that when I noticed there were no active Stefan Feld fan groups on Facebook, I created one of my own. Today we’re going to talk about 2023’s Vienna, his 37th game. Vienna is the 5th title in the Stefan Feld City Collection (SFCC). Vienna is played in one of two modes: an introductory version and an advanced mo ..read more
Visit website
Quick Peaks – Time Division, Odin, Dawn on Titan, Aldebaran Duel
Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming
by Andrew Lynch
1w ago
Time Division - Andrew Lynch Time Division is a card game with a simple premise. The first player plays a card, and then the second player plays one. Whomever plays the higher card gets to make a choice: one player scores their card, the other player uses their card ability. That’s a great premise for a game, and I know the kind of game Time Division wants to be, but it isn’t very good. There’s almost never an interesting tradeoff to be found. Whether it’s better to score or to use your ability is always obvious. I held out hope that the game would grow with familiarity, that new layers of co ..read more
Visit website

Follow Meeple Mountain | The summit of board gaming on FeedSpot

Continue with Google
Continue with Apple
OR