Tabletop Reviews

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The Undercity Tabletop Review

The Undercity is a great, story-driven game that has players take control of a player character through an entire campaign.

August 25, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Tabletop Review

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is a new tabletop miniature wargame from Games Workshop, and it's replacing Warhammer Fantasy Battle to boot.

August 22, 2015 | 09:00 EDT

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Viceroy Tabletop Review

Viceroy is a strategy title that tasks you with running your own pyramid-scheme of power over the little kingdom you've carved out for yourself.

August 11, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Brew Crafters: The Travel Card Game Tabletop Review

Brew Crafters: The Travel Card Game is a travel-sized version of Brew Crafters, the non-combat beer crafting game for ale enthusiasts everywhere.

August 4, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Sentinel Tactics Tabletop Review – Super Skirmish

Sentinel Tactics is a competitive strategy title from the people who bought you Sentinels of the Multiverse in both comic and tabletop forms.

July 28, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem Tabletop Review

Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem is a worker-placement and territory-management game set in the universe of the titular biker gang.

July 21, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Three Kingdoms Redux Review – Grand Strategy

Three Kingdoms Redux is a strategy game based on the famous Romance of the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history that has inspired many pieces of media.

July 14, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Disc Duelers Tabletop Review - Gatling Guns n' Tacos

Disc Duelers is an action-based tabletop game that pits players against each other in a battle to flick discs about the best.

July 7, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Thunder Alley Tabletop Review

Thunder Alley is a classic racing game that any fan of Formula One or NASCAR will get a big kick out of, as long as they don't mind a bit of RNG.

July 3, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Switching Tracks Tabletop Review

Switching Tracks is a rail-management-style board game that tasks you with picking up and delivering the most cargo with your train.

June 30, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Noir: Black Box Edition Tabletop Review

The Noir: Black Box Edition is a special release of the mystery-solving board game Noir, this time with all new features and presentations.

June 23, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Dead of Winter Tabletop Review — Exile Your Friends

Dead of Winter is a psychological survival game set in the cold and blustery aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Can you survive?

June 16, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Sellswords Tabletop Review — I'll Flip Ya For Real

Sellswords is a card-drafting action game that pits two teams against each other to create a killer team of badass warriors.

June 9, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Darkest Night Review - A Glimmer of Hope

Darkest Night is a grimdark fantasy board game that tasks players with hoarding relics to destroy the evil necromancer who runs the world.

June 2, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Merchants & Marauders: Seas of Glory Expansion Review

Seas of Glory is an expansion for Merchants and Marauders that adds a bunch of new content to the base game related to the navy.

May 26, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Xenoshyft Onslaught Tabletop Review

Xenoshyft is a 1-4 player co-op board game that tasks players with blasting and massacring their way through an alien hive.

April 28, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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The Dresden Files RPG Tabletop Review

The Dresden Files RPG, based on the novel series of the same name, is a contemporary fantasy RPG that mixes modernity with magic.

April 23, 2015 | 09:00 EDT

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Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Tabletop Review

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a unique worker-placement board game from Stonemaeir Games about creating a functional Dystopia.

April 21, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Mage Knight: The Lost Legion Tabletop Review

Mage Knight: The Lost Legion is an expansion for the award-winning board game Mage Knight that gives you a new Knight and new enemies to face.

April 14, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport Tabletop Review

Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport is an expansion for Lords of Waterdeep, the dungeon-crawling board game based on DnD.

April 7, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Eminent Domain Tabletop Review

Eminent Domain is a tabletop game all about building the biggest and best galactic civilization, and it plays like a 4X game.

March 31, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Relic Tabletop Review - Roll to Move in Space

Relic is a complete reworking of the classic Games Workshop game Talisman but in the 41st Millenium famous for the Warhammer 40K Setting.

March 24, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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AquaSphere Review - My Brain Burns!

AquaSphere is a euro-style game that pits 4 players against each other in research teams to see who can learn the most knowledge.

March 17, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Terror in Meeple City Tabletop Review - RAWR!!!!

Terror in Meeple City is a game about destroying a metropolitan area with your giant monster, somewhat akin to the arcade game Rampage.

March 10, 2015 | 11:00 EDT

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Star Realms Tabletop Review - Pure Awesome!

Star Realms is a card game that tasks players with creating the perfect fleet of ships to maintain their supreme authority in the galaxy.

March 3, 2015 | 11:00 EST

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Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men Tabletop Review

Marvel Dice Masters: Uncanny X-Men is an expansion for the Marvel dice-rolling game that pits superheroes and villains against each other.

February 24, 2015 | 11:00 EST

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Star Wars Imperial Assault Tabletop Review

Star Wars Imperial Assault is a new tabletop Star Wars title from Fantasy Flight Games that includes a full campaign and an additional skirmish mode.

February 17, 2015 | 12:00 EST

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XCOM: The Board Game Review

XCOM: The Board Game brings all of the fun of the strategy video game to the tabletop, and it does it with a true understanding of what makes the game great.

February 9, 2015 | 01:00 EST

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Shadows of Brimstone Tabletop Review

Shadows of Brimstone is a co-op board game that tasks you with exploring a mysterious location in the style of a pulp fiction novel from the 1930s.

February 3, 2015 | 11:00 EST

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Sentinels of the Multiverse Tabletop Review

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a card game that sees players work together as a team of heroes to defeat a plethora of space-born baddies.

January 14, 2015 | 09:00 EST

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Jamaica Tabletop Review - Set Sail!

Jamaica is a pirate-themed tactical racing board game that sees the players racing around Jamaica to claim as much pirate treasure as possible.

January 7, 2015 | 09:00 EST

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Wiz-War Tabletop Review

Wiz-War is an action-packed, chaotic battle between several wizards. Grab as much treasure as you can and get it back to your lair to win.

December 24, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Lords of Waterdeep Review - Assign Your Agents!

Lords of Waterdeep is a complex worker placement game set in the Dungeons and Dragons world with the backing of WOTC themselves.

December 17, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Dungeon! Board Game Review - Fun For Youngsters!

Dungeon! is a great RPG-like game that is aimed at a bit of a younger audience, so it's great for converting your kids into DnD players.

December 10, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Merchants and Marauders Review

Merchants and Marauders is a pirate-themed thematic board game that puts you in the rum-soaked shoes of a genuine 17th-century pirate.

December 3, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Mage Knight Tabletop Review

Mage Knight is easily one of the best solo-player boardgames available on the market, but casual players be warned: it's complex as hell.

November 26, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Spartacus A Game of Blood and Treachery Review

Spartacus A Game of Blood And Treachery is a tabletop strategy title filled with player interaction, based on the hit show Spartacus Blood and Sand,

November 19, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Splendor Tabletop Game Review

Splendor is a resource-collecting, card-management game that tasks you with amassing as much prestige and wealth as you can.

November 12, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Eldritch Horror Review - Frighteningly Good

Eldritch Horror is a new take on the Arkham Horror formula in a new, easier-to-understand format, as well as being bigger in scope.

November 5, 2014 | 09:00 EST

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Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Review

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is Pathfinder's take on a pen-and-paper RPG if it were to be condensed down into a card game experience.

October 29, 2014 | 09:00 EDT

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Legacy Gears of Time Review

Legacy Gears of Time is a time-travaller-based card game where players have to travel in time to kickstart the invention of various types of tech.

August 12, 2014 | 11:00 EDT

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Sentinels of the Multiverse Review - A Super Game

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a card-game that sees you enter a pitched-battle between a multitude of heroes and villains.

August 8, 2014 | 01:00 EDT

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Warmachine Vengeance Tabletop Review

Warmachine Vengeance is the latest book released for the Warmachine miniatures game, which supplies new details on pretty much the entire game.

May 7, 2014 | 05:00 EDT