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Giddyup cowpeople! Or horsepeople? I’m already confused. Let’s make it a little less beefuddling by clearly and concisely pitting two games against each other and seeing which horcing game is the winner (pun included) and which one’s gonna retire to the pastures.
Hey capitalism fans, you might be searching for the next great lightweight game to imagine you’d be playing with your extended family over the holidays whom you would be seeing if we all weren’t staying home again. Well, imagine no more for we have the brown and white box of your dreams.
Furnace is a 30 minute Ebeneezer Scrooge simulator and if you’re wondering whether it’s a feast or a cold turkey - we have the scoop for you.
An Irish Gouge, much like Bradd Pitt’s character in the movie Snatch, doesn’t sound like something very nice or Irish. Thankfully today we are not reviewing Irish Gouge, but Irish Gauge, a delightfully devious and quick train game with drumroll stocks!
That’s right, much like it’s dreaded bulky cousin - the 18xx genre - Irish Gauge combines the joy of stocks and auctions with laying track onto hexagons. But unlike it’s cousin, it manages to remain light and fluffy - like a coal powered meringue. Is it worth your time?
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.