Win the guilds to your side, secure the favor of the King, and maneuver and manipulate your way to victory. Strategic and logical, Blackstone Castle is a game of grid manipulation in which all the information is open and available to players.
Build a life, make friends and connections, change jobs, and put together your work history! CV is a dice and storytelling game in which players put together their lives from young adulthood through old age.
Cooperation, social deduction, real time, abstract, and micro games all make their way to Kickstarter this month. There’s a little something of everything both in mechanics and theme, with games ranging from fairy tales to stories of survival on the high seas.
Pandasaurus Games has announced Machi Koro Legacy, Looney Labs has released Star Trek Fluxx, and gaming websites have been posting their Gen Con wrap-ups.
Inspired by side scrolling one-on-one fighting games, PopCats Fighter will have you choose your cat and go toe to toe in a cat-themed game of vicious clawing and agile pouncing.
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