Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reviewing family friendly and party friendly games. Guest Writer: Rob Johnson The Game Crafter Age: 10+ 2-4 players How long can you tread water? Lost at sea on floating debris that could sink at any minute. You are in a race to survive by finding the tools and food you need. But …
Family Friendly Review: Beekeeper a Buzzworthy Game
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reviewing family friendly and party friendly games Guest Writer: Rob Johnson Haywire Group Age: 6+ 2-4 players I broke open the box of our new family time game to play with my granddaughter McKinna, she is 5, and this is what we found. The box that the game comes in looks …
Guest Review: World Championship Russian Roulette Game
Guest Writer: Luke Heller “Click, click… BOOM!” Wait… is this a song review or a game review?!? World Championship Russian Roulette is a game where you get to watch your friends/strangers shoot themselves in the head and maybe do themselves in, making you one step closer to winning it all. Anywhere from 2-6 players can play. The game goes …
Ghost Review: Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space
Don’t Let Them Hear You Scream a review of Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space Guest Writer: Kevin Birge You’ve been standing in the pitch black darkness for what seems like hours. One hand grips a metal railing, slick with sweat and condensation. The ship is failing. You must get to the escape pod. You don’t know if …
QuickWits and QuickWits2, party game for adults
Quickwits and Quickwits 2, Join the party and keep it going review Quickwits is a fun card game, with the aim of making any party break out in raucous laughter. Does it achieve it’s lofty purpose? Read on and find out my take on Quickwits and Quickwits 2. What’s in the box???? Quickwits Box ~ 150 cards consisting of: Quikwits cards Mystery …
Grimslingers: Frantic fun in the Forgotten West
Grimslingers Review In a land beyond God’s reckonin’ is a place called the Forgotten West. A cursed land of sorts in the American Frontier, housing the damned, the mysterious, the unfortunate. You ended up there, God knows why, and you sure ain’t leavin’ anytime soon. Grimslingers is produced by Greenbrier Games and is the brainchild of Stephen S. Gibson. Grimslingers …
Guest Review: Castle Panic!
Guest Writer: John Enfield Unboxing Day: I’m impressed with this box. Quite sturdy with practically every surface used except the insides of the lids. Even the sides of the bottom piece have graphics – in this case, talking about expansions for the game. This is interesting as it shows that fun with the base Castle Panic! game can keep going …
Ghost Review: Dracula’s America: Shadows of the West
Guest Writer: Kevin Birge An Ace Up The Sleeve: Father Lynch fled through the fog down the railroad line. He was sprinting, and up ahead he could see the caboose of the freight train. The locomotive was still slow chuffing, barely any throttle, just powering up for her trip west. He dared a fast turn of the head to look …
Ghost Review: Shadowrift: Eve of the Sickle Moon
Guest Writer: Christopher Bishop Eve of the sickle moon is an expansion produced by Jeremy Anderson for Shadowrift. It adds in two new monster factions to traumatize the poor beleaguered citizens of New Haven, and with these new factions come new perils the intrepid heroes will have to resolve. The new factions are the Lycanthropes and the Harrowood. Lycanthropes, as …
Game in Review: Unearth
Guest Writer: Robert Bird Game Type: Unique Category: Card, Dice Game Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Set Collecting, Dice Placement Number of Players: 2 to 4 Age: 8+ Family friendly Price range: Varies from $22.99 (Cardhaus) up to $29.95 (Noble Knight Games). Median is$26.47 Game Time: Developers say 30 – 60 minutes, and that’s pretty accurate. The first time I played through …