While you’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of Thunderstone Advance, I’ll catch you up on the last two expansions from the original series. These both came last summer, when I was in the middle of a major move and had to …
Continue ReadingOverview: Since the initial release of Thunderstone, AEG has published expansions for the deck-building dungeon-crawling card game at a feverish pace. (In fact, there have been two more expansions since Dragonspire, the last one I reviewed, but my move last …
Continue ReadingLast year I reviewed a unique deck-building game, Puzzle Strike, which uses cardboard poker chips instead of cards. Instead of shuffling cards, you throw all your chips into a bag, shake ’em up, and pull several out at a time …
Continue ReadingOverview: The Ascension saga continues in this second expansion. Storm of Souls is a stand-alone expansion, with its own set of basic cards so you don’t need the base set to play it. Two new types of cards enter the …
Continue ReadingThe Miskatonic School for Girls has a slight problem: all the faculty and staff are either “mind-rending creatures or insane cultists.” The knowledge that they impart to the students is the sort of thing that will drive you to insanity.
Continue ReadingEarlier this summer I mentioned that the deck-building game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer was coming to the iPad and iPhone. I finally got to give it a shot recently. I think they’ve done a good job translating the game …
Continue ReadingOverview: The zombiepocalypse is upon us, and the streets are no longer safe. We venture out briefly from our safe houses to scavenge for food and weapons, but the horde is growing. In this clever new deck-building game, you decide …
Continue ReadingOverview: A permanent darkness has fallen over the earth, and with it have come the creatures of the night: vampires and werewolves, as well as the hunters who stalk them. Nightfall is deck-building with a vengeance — the goal is …
Continue ReadingOverview: Haven’t gotten to play Thunderstone yet and feeling behind with all the expansions? Just released last week, Thunderstone Dragonspire is a new stand-alone expansion, which means you can play it by itself or add it to the existing sets. …
Continue ReadingOverview: Dominion is the game that kicked off this whole deck-building craze. It won the 2009 Spiel des Jahres (think of it like the Best Picture of board games) and if you play it a few times you’ll see why. …
Continue ReadingOverview: According to the manual, Puzzle Strike is a “card game played with chips instead of cards that simulates a puzzle game (that doesn’t exist) that simulates a fighting game (that also doesn’t exist).” Confused yet? Don’t worry; the essence …
Continue ReadingOverview: Towards the end of the year I really got into deck-building games, and Thunderstone remains one of my favorites. The base game was a nice introduction to the genre once I understood the rules, and the Wrath of the …
Continue ReadingAEG, the company behind the dungeon-crawling deck-building game Thunderstone, has announced a new game coming this spring: Nightfall. I haven’t gotten a chance to play it yet, but they’ve taken the deck-building genre and turned it into a player-vs.-player battle. …
Continue ReadingOverview: A new deck-building card game from a new publisher, Gary Games, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer pits four players against each other in a race to kill the corrupt god Samael the Fallen One. Ascension features Heroes and Constructs …
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