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Solforge Fusion tries its hand at digitizing your card collection, enabling online play

ByEli RichmanAugust 23, 2024

Solforge takes a similar approach to Keyforge with algorithmically constructed, premade decks. To start a game, you take two of these decks and shuffle them together, so there is some element of customization. Each deck contains a QR code that allows the cards to be copied

ByJulian Goldman-BrownAugust 16, 2024

In Arcs, players move politically, travel a dynamic cosmos, and make crucial choices that affect the future of their space-faring civilization.

ByEli RichmanDecember 18, 2023

"Boblin's Rebellion" is an engine-building game, while "Obelus" is a 2-player abstract game.

ByEli RichmanDecember 6, 2023

Practically everyone who wanted to buy Lorcana cards at PAX Unplugged was able to do so. That may not sound revolutionary, but it is a big step up from where Lorcana has been over the past few months.

ByEli RichmanAugust 28, 2023

The Bag of Holding, a remnant from the internet of yore, is getting new life with a Kickstarter run by Rollacrit, starting this week. Rollacrit has become an increasing presence in the tabletop space in recent years. It was the Gen Con merchandise partner for the past three

ByEli RichmanAugust 7, 2023

Lost Ruins of Arnak (2020) has seen significant critical and commercial success since it launched three years ago, and its new expansion, The Missing Expedition is no exception. Combining a campaign mode with new leaders cards, the game was a major draw at Gen Con this year,

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Dead of Winter’s Crossroads system gets new life with Freelancers

ByEli RichmanJune 15, 2023

Freelancers, which uses the crossroads game system premiered by Dead of Winter and Forgotten Waters, is now available to preorder for $60.

ByEli RichmanDecember 7, 2022

It wasn't so long ago that the idea of paying even $100 for a board game seemed a little outrageous. But at Pax Unplugged this year, I found a dozen projects that breached the $200 mark.

ByEli RichmanNovember 10, 2022

It’s a controversial and, some might say, blasphemous sentiment, I know. But some games require so much bookkeeping or have such a wide variety of rules that keeping track of it all requires serious mental bandwidth. Which leaves you with less bandwidth to focus on

ByEli RichmanJuly 1, 2022

The keywords in Golem are fairly unique in the world of tabletops. Instead of priests and cathedrals, players use Rabbis and Synagogues.

Solforge Fusion tries its hand at digitizing your card collection, enabling online play

Arcs takes Root-style asymmetry to the space opera

Phase Shift announces two new games, sets summer 2024 release

Lorcana stock survives PAX Unplugged

Rollacrit, a reincarnated ThinkGeek, to introduce Bag of Holding 2.0 at $125 this week

New Arnak expansion sells out in under 1 hour at Gen Con

Dead of Winter’s Crossroads system gets new life with Freelancers

Every $200+ game at Pax Unplugged 2022 (that I found)

5 board games that work better as apps

What Golem means to me