I recently reviewed Succulent, a new game that’s fun, smart, and a quick play. In the vernacular of board gaming, Succulent has two main mechanics: Tile placement and set collection. Both of these ...

At its heart, Traintopia is a drafting game, in which players collect tiles and other resources over the course of several rounds. At the start of the round, a player draws a round card and pulls the ...

In Life in Reterra, players are tasked with rebuilding a community within a post-apocalyptic landscape of some kind. Players start with a single 2×2 tile that contains four different types of terrain.

Setup consists of seeding a main board full of different kinds of tiles that are available to players for collection and placement on their own individual park boards throughout the game. Players each ...

Soon after I opened Wispwood, the new tile-laying, pattern building game from Czech Games Edition, I knew we were in a very, very safe place. Wispwood has cats. Animals seem to be in games all the ...

Streets is the latest creation from the team at Sinister Fish Games. The game builds on the visual style of Villagers, their last game. However, where Villagers was a card-drafting game, Streets puts ...

Since this is a tile-laying game, there are a lot of tiles to punch: 144 of them to be exact, across four player colors. These are the most disappointing aspects of production, small, fiddly, slightly ...