A true mark of a fantastic game is when your teenagers pull it out to play over and over.
And you know it’s an even bigger hit when they want to play it during dinner night after night.
Such has been the case with So Clover!
That’s also why it was such an easy decision to include it in our 2022 Board Game Gift Guide.
Repos Production has struck gold again with this super easy to play and fun cooperative party game.
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As the holidays approach, it’s super common for people to look for the best family board games to give as gifts to family members and friends.
This is our 12th year publishing a Board Game Gift Guide to help you find fantastic board games, dice games, card games, party games, and more for those you love.
And this year we’ve got 36 new board games to recommend!
Since there’s a wide range of people to consider for game gifts, we break down this board game gift guide into various categories with a handful of game ideas in each.
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Last week we shared our review of the base game of Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game from Steamforged Games.
Since the video game is such a massive, open-world experience, it was clear to see from the outset that there would need to be game expansions to create more hunting encounters for players to go up against even more menacing machines.
That why this week we’re sharing our thoughts on 3 of the game expansions.
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In 2017, Guerrilla Games developed and Sony published a Playstation 4 video game that’s set in a world overrun by machines. As of February 2022, the video game has sold over 20 million copies–making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games.
Because of its huge success, Steamforged Games brought the game to life in board game form in 2020.
In Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game, players band together to form a hunting party to take down the rampant machines.
Over the course of multiple encounters, players will level up their hunters with new skills and upgrade their equipment to become even stronger before they face the final encounter against the Sawtooth.
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Two years ago we took off on a quest in space and now we’re searching the depths of the sea.
In fact, it was exactly 2 years ago, in March 2020, when we reviewed The Crew: Quest for Planet Nine by Kosmos. We played it a TON leading up to doing our review. And then we played it even more in the months after that while we were all shut inside as the Covid pandemic broke out around the world.
Needless to say, we absolutely loved the cooperative, trick-taking, mission-based card game. We could hardly get enough of it, even making up our own challenging mission scenarios.
Since then, Kosmos has gone ahead and outdone themselves with the follow-up game The Crew: Mission Deep Sea!
Yes, that’s right – they found a way to make a fantastic game even better. And I don’t think we’ll ever play the original again.
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I had a fantastic first weekend of March because I was hanging out and playing tons of games with my friends at SaltCon Spring 2022!
I look forward to this 4-day gaming event with much anticipation every year. And it was especially great this year because the air was finally clearing around the Covid pandemic. Which means we could see the smiling faces of the 1,700 or so people who came out to play all sorts of games.
This year I was able to attend 3 full days of the event and played 22 different board games, card games, and dice games!
It was a lot of fun and I’m ready to share my thoughts on each of the games I played.
(Consider it like a bunch of mini-reviews.)
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In getting ready to write my 2021 Year in Review, I realized that I never posted a 2020 Year in Review.
Maybe that’s because 2020 felt like a gap year for everybody – and many things just didn’t happen.
Well, that gives me a better chance to take a look at both years and compare how they’ve shaken out for family board game playing time.
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If you’re looking for some great game ideas for friends and family, you’ve come to the right place!
This marks our 11th annual Board Game Gift Guide and we love sharing great gift ideas!
And this year we’re sharing another 40 game ideas!
Since there’s a wide range of people (ages & interests) you may be considering, we break down this game guide into various categories and share a handful of game ideas in each category.
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Last week we shared about the cooperative story game, Stuffed Fables – where players are the stuffed animals helping a little girl.
Now that little girl has a baby brother with his own 2 “stuffies” – Pokey the unicorn and muscular Manny.
So it’s time for the stuffies to dive into even more adventures in Stuffed Fables: Oh, Brother!
While the game includes a new storybook, new tokens, sleep cards, and its own discovery deck, players still need components from the Stuffed Fables base game to play.
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Toy Story movies are still some of my favorite movies.
I love the idea of our toys having a purpose. And Pixar knows how to breath depth of character into them throughout their adventures.
Well, a few years ago, Plaid Hat Games brought that concept to life in a cooperative board game that’s fantastic for families called Stuffed Fables.
The game is a cooperative adventure game where the main characters are “stuffies” (stuffed animals) working together to save the child they love from a scheming, evil mastermind.
It’s also an “Adventure Book” game where the game board is actually a physical book teaming with adventures on every page.
And it works wonderfully!
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