When it comes to Civil War board gaming, my experience is fairly light. I still have a copy of Freedom: The Underground Railroad (which is pretty fantastic), and I used to have a copy of Battle Cry,

So, hypothetically speaking, who would win in a fight: Goku or Superman? Or Hulk versus The Thing? If you’re like me, I dreamed up these kinds of battles as a kid and so did the folks over at

Gamers have very strong feelings about themes. Some love science fiction themes and some are over zombies. If there is one theme that will always see some playing time in our house, it’s anything

Back in 2017, fellow BGQ reviewer Brian gave us his thoughts on the exploration and survival game Posthuman from Mighty Boards. Fast forward three years and game designer Gordon Calleja once again

Marvel Champions is one of our favorite games from 2019 and even won our Board Game Quest award for Best Cooperative Game in our annual awards. This heroic card game has players jumping into the

on and normally we’d be getting ready now to head over to the Origins Game Fair for the first convention of the season. Of course, conventions this year have become a memory, but we are only a week

There’s a game mechanism called area control. Usually, those who are already in a dominant position continue to do well if large numbers of pieces are removed from the board. Some games might have

Last year, Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North blasted onto the scene with not only an excellent core game, but also a solid expansion (Japanese Islands) to up the variety of the game. Not even

On occasion, I fancy a game that has no theme. Removing the possibility of fitting a square-pegged theme into a round hole, an abstract game just presents itself as a function of play, plain and

Not every game is easy to learn or teach. 2019 was a year filled with games that sit at or above the medium-heavy level of complexity. These are games with pages rule, lots of components, and a