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A Touch of Evil is a huge game that would be difficult to sum up in just a paragraph or five. Instead of trying to describe it all myself, here is the game's description: "Tis’ the dawn of the 19th century; an age of science,…
I hadn't played King Me before, but ever since my girlfriend played it with the rest of that same group, she's been interested in getting me to try it. Everyone thought it would be a great game to try out for someone with a visual…
September 18 th, 2010. My girlfriend and I missed our opportunity to attend the annual Portland Pirate Festival ( ) and our group's bi-weekly movie night fell through, but the day wasn't a loss. Instead of movie night, some friends threw together an impromptu board…
If you're in to fun, family oriented games, Pompeii fits the bill.
Cape Horn is a sailing game based on a historical race that took place in the 1800s, in which clipper ships set out from New York to sail to San Francisco in the fastest time possible. One of the biggest…
La Citta is a civilization building game that encourages players to have well-balanced cities to achieve victories.
Forbidden Island is a very fun game with relatively simple game mechanics, but it can be difficult to master and win. If you find it too simple on the "novice" difficulty though, you can make it harder on yourself by increasing the difficult to "normal", "expert", or "legendary" by starting the game's water meter at increasing higher levels. The inclusion of these difficulty options should ensure that even veteran players are challenged with the game and can continue to play it for a long time to come.
Neuland is a Civilization-style board game from Z-Man Games, originally published in 2004. We picked up the game a couple of months ago and recently cracked it open for our first session. Despite experience a bit of burn-out from teh amount of time we spent on the game, we enjoyed our initial run.
