Posted in: Abstract
Announcement! For the next six weeks we’ll be celebrating the best that small board games have to offer. Tune in for this first episode where we feature Sprawlopolis - one of the best city building games out there fitting into a demure 18 cards, a rulebook and a wallet to fit it all in. What could be more pocket than that? Answers on a pocket postcard.
Sometimes simple can mean complex and sometimes simple can mean vicious. In the case of The Estates - it’s both. Welcome to a game that says - hey - it’s time to play with some wooden colour blocks and maybe potentially breed an insatiable desire to tell your friends things you’ll come to regret for many years to come. “Sign me up,” you say? Well hang on just a minute, this review is far from over. Sit back, click play and don’t relax because this game is about to hit you like a ton of bricks.
Orbis is a game about being god and creating your own universe. Which is perhaps only fitting because we were so surprised by it, it might as well have fallen into our lap from the sky.
It's not exactly brain surgery but this light abstract tile drafting game might just spin your head into a twist.