Reef is a puzzle that will ask you to plan ahead and consider each choice you make and how you stack your pieces. From beautiful box art to lovely components, the game lacks nothing in presentation. But how does it play?
From ants collecting food to pancake flipping, food takes center stage this month on Kickstarter. There’s also plenty of space involved too, from a game that puts you in charge of running your own agency during the space race, to a social deduction game in which humans must race to find the alien queen among them.
Do players keep forgetting the rules of a game? Go out of turn? Or do you simply want to penalize the losers? Have them draw a card and perform a consequence!
Raccoon Tycoon blends anthropomorphic animals in Victorian clothing with a quasi-historical setting as players race to buy and sell commodities, towns, and railroads in a light, but fun stock market game.
Renegade Game Studios has a new game available for pre-order, The Game Aisle recommends some games for Easter, and Z-Man Games gives a sneak peak of their new edition of Love Letter.
This month finds some truly gorgeous artwork on Kickstarter, a game about growing flowers, a solo game that puts you in the role of the French resistance, a social deduction game of villagers and demons, and…high school volleyball?
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