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Luxembourg Doesn't Exist — the story of Abroad: A Travelogue
A game about twenty-eight days of travel in Europe, conceived by its author while on the...
Entropy: the space euro where moving little pays and costs
Three designers who created Barrage, Newton, and Darwin's Journey are collaborating for the first time, and...
Night at the Zoo: six animals, six ways of walking
You don't choose the animals: the box picks three and those are yours. I've read the...
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Timespan: four cards in a row decide your civilization
No one has played it yet, but the rulebook is public and I've read it all, including the summary sheet and solo...
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Cascadia: Alpine Lakes — the two halves have swapped places
It seems like the same stacking tiles game. I read the two rulebooks side-by-side, and what changed is not what you see.
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Parks Europe vs. Parks 2E: everything that changes, according to the rules
Those who have only read the rules say it changes little. Those who have tried it use the image of a bear...
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-60° Sixty Below: the more storms you have, the less you have left
The map that unfolds as you build it is the main gimmick. But the game is decided much earlier, when you draw...
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Wingspan Pocket: what's new, and if it's really worth it
In January 2026, in Phoenix, eight people tore apart a product built in one year. Not the game: its first half-hour. This...
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Golden Goal: twenty years for a football game, then in your pocket
A Dutch mathematician spends over twenty years perfecting a football game, builds entire leagues around it, and then — more than forty...
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Diables: why an entire people runs into the fire
There's a festival in Catalonia where people run towards fireworks instead of away from them. Dani Garcia built a game around it...
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Meloch's Duel: what changes if you already own Scythe or Expeditions
Stonemaier takes Scythe and Expeditions and pits them against each other in the same box. It looks like a crossover for fans....
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Viticulture Bordeaux - Nobody wanted to change it. The person who wrote it is back.
Thirteen years after Viticulture, its author returns to the vineyard. Not to add, but to smooth out the wrinkles only those who...
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Tenby: he drew every card and composed the soundtrack
A film and TV composer spent fifteen years scoring other people's stories. Then he returned to the Welsh town he visited as...
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They remake a game from scratch, and in the same month they expand it
Devir is remaking Cities from scratch and, in the same month, launching an expansion for it. It sounds like a confusing double...
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Dead Cells: a studio without bosses, a hero without a head
Le Scorpion Masqué used to make family games. Then its studio head secretly built something too similar to a certain video game...
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They used to advertise for Nike. Now they do the opposite of every publisher.
An animation studio working for Nike got tired of making things designed to disappear. So, they started building objects that people keep...
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When the nightmare returns, bigger than before, does the old box still matter?
You have the first box, and now a second, larger one is coming out. Do they really interact? And the three expansions,...
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There's a century of history behind the war on the kitchen table
In 1913, two novelists shot toy soldiers with a toy cannon after dinner. That evening marked the birth of the first wargame...
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What do you add to a game that already seemed complete?
Ten new cards for one of 2024's most beloved games. It seems like a minor addition. Then you realize it changes how...
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It's too expensive. Or we've already devalued it ourselves
It's released in Italian, and the slamming begins chain-reaction style, for games that haven't even had a real playthrough yet. But on...
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An hour of pretense, and at the end of the evening, no one remembers who won
The co-creator of Dead of Winter and a rising star in game design sign off on a tabletop heist. But the real...
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Two thousand crimes in a few cards, and one was wrong
An Informatics Olympiad medalist and the father of an award-winning children's game. Together, they packed two thousand riddles into a small box....
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He created a ten-kilo world, then left its leadership
A PhD in physics on graphene, a Kickstarter launched while still writing his thesis, and a name born from a misunderstood word....
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The Venetian fire that put a name on every box
Venice, 1978. A study catches fire. Twenty years of manuscripts burn – the life's work of a writer. When Alex Randolph returns...
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A thesis that turned into a publishing house
A Cypriot at King's College asks a strange question. Years later, the successor to a BGG Top 50 game arrives in Italian....
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He invented the deck-building game. Then he made one that kills you.
Thirteen disasters, always in the same order. You know which one is coming and on which turn. And you keep building the...
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The bag empties and there's no one else to blame
A solitaire where you fish for fish from a bag. Sounds like a cheap puzzle. After twenty minutes you discover it's something...
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Sixteen years looking for markets that don't exist
In 2009, he founded a game publishing house in a country that didn't read rulebooks. Today, he's opening franchised game pubs in...
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When a Portland jeweler listened to a friend talk about ants
Tim Eisner made jewelry at the Saturday market. He was about to quit. His brother convinced him to start a game company,...
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Sixteen siblings, a father who invented games, one and a half million copies
Fourteen years ago, after one of his sisters got married, Enoch Fryxelius asked his brothers, "Who's with me?". Since then, the family...
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Forty-eight hours to recall one's debut
At Gen Con 2025, Devir's communications director presents his first game as an author. Less than twenty-four hours later, stores are recalling...
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A thousand fake wooden boxes and a die that learned to speak
Lake Geneva, January 1974. Gary Gygax hand-assembled one thousand fake wooden boxes. Avalon Hill had rejected the manuscript a year earlier—too strange,...
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Eight years to design a game. Eight hours to live it
In 2015, the founder of GMT Games announced that he was working on the game he had always wanted to design. It...
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The CEO who tells you not to buy another one of his games
In January, he unveiled his 2026 plans in a YouTube livestream. Amidst the announcements, he uttered a phrase that a CEO should...
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He signed his work seventy-eight times. No one saw it.
In 1909, she designed the world's most famous tarot deck and hid her initials in the corner of each card. She died...
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Two friends, a Polish basement, the most beautiful miniatures of the decade
They started by hand-painting miniatures in a friend's parents' basement. Ten years later, they are the most talked-about publisher in the industry...
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An altar for those who are no longer with us — and to understand who you are
Two Portuguese designers built a Mexican altar for the dead. It's not a contradiction—it's the starting point. Ofrenda is a puzzle of...
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The pig who didn't want to make it — but did
Justin De Witt built his career on a single idea: that people cooperate better when they have something to lose together. Ham...
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When discounts become a habit, the market stops functioning
You booked at full price. A month later, it was already down by thirty percent. That's not bad luck — it's a...
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You know too much to build it well
Every game of Lairs begins with a strange question: how would you build a maze knowing that your opponent, and not you,...
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Each piece is a doorway.
It started with a four-euro children's puzzle — and she realized that each piece could be a door. Alex Rosenthal produces educational...
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In deck-building, you choose. In this, you don't.
Jordy Adan had just released Cartographers when he met Renato Simões. Together, they convinced Thunderworks to say yes in less than a...
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Why do you keep fishing even when you already know how it's going to end.
A creative director who left everything behind. A viral Dark Souls map. And a horror fishing game born from a misreading at...
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Discounted Price
Every title is born — or should be born — with a specific audience in mind. Not a vague idea. A real...
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Do you have strength or do you have a system? It's not the same thing
Muhammad Ali enters the board in butterfly stance. He can attack from two squares away — but his attacks are worth less....
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Do you have resources or do you have speed? It's not the same thing.
Every action you take creates momentum. Momentum allows you to draw more cards, activate abilities, and chain effects. If the flow breaks...
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Botswana: The Ruthless Elegance of the Savannah in a Box
Gameplay is disarmingly straightforward: you play a card from your hand, then take an animal from the center of the table via...
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Torchlit: Anatomy of a Ruthless Take-and-Bet Game
Hand Management in Torchlit is ruthless. The order in which cards are played is as crucial as their face value. Burning through...
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A Wild Venture: The Two-Player Game You Don't Expect
The elegance of hardcore design is revealed when the brain stops reading colored text and starts processing solely the fluidity of icons...
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