Here are some clues. Can you can guess what game I’m talking about?: It’s cooperative. Evil forces darken the land, and a group of powerful heroes has banded together to fight the seemingly ceaseless tide of wretchedness. The heroes all …
I don’t know why it took me so long to find it, but I stumbled across John Fiore’s Solo Nexus blog a few days ago and it is quite the rabbit hole for a solo gamer. There are posts on …
“Tell the Vietnamese they’ve got to draw in their horns or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.” –General Curtis LeMay DVG’s Leader series is unique among solitaire designs for combining low complexity with separate strategic and …
Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who wait just a bit longer. I intended to review Alien Frontiers for iOS soon after its release, when it was fuzzy due to lack of Retina …
“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as anyone, what soldiers can do. It is my …
Andrew Kluessendorf (Getaklue) maintains a Geeklist at Boardgamegeek that covers the current status of Dan Versen Games’ pre-orders. It is updated each month, and Andrew also runs a contest where anyone who links a review to a list entry becomes …
Growing up, I read about air combat all the time. I once ordered a catalog from the Israeli Defense Force so I could save up for one of the Kfir attack jets they were selling. The first game I got …
Anyone who dips even their little toe into solitaire gaming is sure to stub it on Victory Point Games. They make some of the best solo games, and take chances on designs that would otherwise be relegated to the …
Haggis is one of my favorite card games. It’s like a two- or three-player version of Tichu (another favorite), only without the partnership aspect. I was so excited to hear it was getting an iOS release, especially after enjoying the …
Victory Point Games’ States of Siege series is all about checking the progress of really bad things coming at you from a variety of directions. Can you imagine a system better suited to simulating a zombie apocalypse? Neither can I. …