As any good gamer knows, there’s a point where one type of game can get saturated on the market. Currently, everyone and their brother (and their brothers!) has a deck building game. Dominion launched a craze, and everyone is getting in on the fun. While most are fun, quantity doesn’t always equate to quality.

While most people look to Kickstarter or Indiegogo for creativity, there are many other sites out there that are filled with ingenious little designs and devilish little cardboard pieces of fun, frolic, and in the case of our latest Critical Review, fur!

If you hadn’t noticed, Arcane Wonders has made an amazing game with Mage Wars!  We gave it out Game of the Year award for 2012 and if the first expansion is any inkling, they aren’t stopping there!  Their first expansion, the Forcemaster and Warlord adds more cards for the base set mages and two new mages!  Add to it a host of new creatures, spells, incantations and abilities and it’s an arena busting good time!

Adventure Kingdom will put you in the role of a dashing hero or heroine, who will have to use their guile, their abilities, their pets and magical items, as well as a lot of luck, to escape the evil clutches of Castle Orm!

Sentinels of the Multiverse is the award-winning game in which players join forces as heroes to combat a dastardly villain in a dynamic environment!
The Enhanced Edition features thicker card stock, a larger box, divider cards, tokens, and villain scaling mechanics, but the same great gameplay and mechanics that Sentinels fans know and love!

 
“It’s like a B-Movie!” – Tim Norris, Grey Elephant Gaming
That was one of the funniest, and yet appropriate ways, I’ve heard Zombicide described to me going into this Critical Review.  I unfortunately was under a gigantic boulder of a rock last year and didn’t pledge into the Zombicide Kickstarter from Cool Mini or Not andGuillotine Games.  However, have no fear, as our Friendly Local Game Store, Dragon’s Lair in Austin, has provided us a copy of the base game to provide a review for you, the Critical Fans!
Zombicide is everything you …

We recently got a copy of this unique adventure game billed as the “Deck Building Board Game of Adventure”! How can you not like that?  Check out the awesome storage and colorful pieces, bits, bobs, and trinkets inside the land of Fantastiqa from Gryphon Games!

Last year, City of Gears won the “Steampunk Challenge” for best Steampunk themed game so when I had the opportunity to get a copy for review, I was very curious, being a lover of cogs, gears, clockwork anything, and of course, steam powered contraptions.

The recent Critical Review of the DC Deck Building Game from Cryptozoic spawned some good and healthy discussions!  Some people thought I was too light on it and others thought I was too harsh on it. I’ve received several requests to do a Critical Play and I hope that this session helps bring to light some of the things discussed, and possibly, brings up new items to chat about.
In this video, my wife and I sat down to play a two player game, with me being The Flash and her …

Obviously that didn’t happen or pan out (although I may know the secret location of a specific WOW mini some players have a yearning desire for), alas, my level of spy espionage and thrilling adventures is pretty hum drum and regular.