Kunai in the eye

Do you sometimes have this strange feeling, that maybe something is not exactly how it should be, when you can find kunai in your back, and shurikens are flying around your head? Yeah, neither do I, and that’s probably why every average ninja manages to surprise me – today I want to show you Tiny Ninjas

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Wushu bidding

The reception of various board games can vary in different people’s eyes. It is very subjective and brings up many different feelings related to the aesthetic values and sense of them being enclosed in games. What basically defines them as a works of art. Until now, categorizing board games as a field of art was not so obvious to me. Crossroads of Heroes dispersed the mist that veiled my full awareness of this fact.

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Utopian puppeteers

I got to know a lot of games, where one player is lurking hidden on the board, facing the others who hunt him. I didn’t think that any variation on this mechanic would be able to amaze me in any particular way, but Tabletop Pathologic proved me wrong.

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Endangered exploitation

In the silence of the space, an asteroid runs around one of the many slowly fading stars. Small, insignificant beings from a distant planet called it the Amelia’s Jewel. The most greedy of these creatures have decided to exploit its resources. Together, they caged this irregular gem with a web of drilling stations and satellites as grotesque ornaments. Now the time has come for you. Become a gear wheel in a well oiled corporate machine and bring your overlords the biggest profit in this exploitation race – Darkrock Ventures.

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A hundred years of Brahma

Born from a lotus flower grown on the lake placed in the navel of sleeping Vishnu, Brahma, the great creator, wakes up, and each of his four heads embraces space around to make brand new world. Take the role of one of the elements that will influence the shape of the universe in Space Editor.

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Lovecraftian wars

The world is left in ruins, as you look to the horizon everywhere you can see is  destruction and devastation. Cosmic horrors descended to the world and decided to fight over what remained. This time I will dust off and play Cthulhu Wars, to check how the game works after almost 2 years since it began appearing on the shelves.

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Pew! Pew! You died

Summer’s in the air, people are having barbecues in bigger groups. It’s a sign that time has come for lighter games for larger playgroups, which means werewolf-like genre. In this case we will shoot each other  with awesome ray guns in social deduction game Leaders of Euphoria.

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Daimyo jostling

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In the history of Japan there was a period known as Sengoku. Started with a coup d’etat of the Meiō era, when Masamoto Hosokawa exiles Ashikaga clan’s tenth shogun from the capital. A time, when local rulers – the daimyō – incessantly fought for power and influence. Only after a hundred years, when Hideyoshi Toyotomi subordinates the Hōjō clan and unites all the provinces, the fighting for domination comes to an end. Today we will assume the roles of samurai, participants in this hundred-year struggle, in a quick card game – Zipang Portable.

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