Game Overview: Dream Home, or Home Is Where the Points Are

City-building is a common theme for board games for obvious reasons: Players can easily grasp the setting and goal, you can apply simple rules to building or resource acquisition that create the basic framework of a game, and people like putting stuff together and marveling at what they made.

Klemens Kalicki and REBEL.pl took these same concepts, but applied a scaled-down approach in Dream Home, which has each player creating their own home one room at a time. This process mimics reality only loosely since sometimes you'll be forced to add another bathroom to the house when you already have two or will find yourself holding a grand piano with no place to put it. Oh, well, just toss it away and get on to the next room. You have only twelve rounds in which to build, so there's no use crying over spilt Steinways...

New Game Round-up: Shooting Superhot Cards, Phasing Past to Present, and Reduxing Three Kingdoms Redux

Nov 25, 2016

• SUPERHOT is a highly stylized first-person shooter video game in which, as the tagline reminds you constantly, "time moves only when you move". Think of The Matrix, but with red and gray...

Game Previews at BGG.CON 2016: Room 25 Ultimate, Fugitive, Moa, One Card Wonder, Munchkin Collectible Card Game, Batman: The Animated Series Dice Game, and Much More

Nov 23, 2016

• Let's continue a run-through of some of the forthcoming games available for a look-see at BGG.CON 2016, starting with one looked at and seen only by the press, this being Steve Jackson Games'...

Game Previews at BGG.CON 2016: Mole Rats in Space, Pyramid Poker, Automobiles: Racing Season, Notre Dame, and In the Year of the Dragon

Nov 22, 2016

• In the closing hours of BGG.CON 2016, designer Matt Leacock showed off Mole Rats in Space, a cooperative design due out in 2017 from Peaceable Kingdom, a U.S. publisher that specializes in...

Game Preview from BGG.CON 2016: Alien Artifacts

Nov 21, 2016

I played a number of forthcoming games at BGG.CON 2016, some of which cannot yet be revealed and others of which have been announced loud and proud by the publishers in question, with one of the...

Game Preview from BGG.CON 2016: Yamataï

Nov 20, 2016

BGG.CON 2016 is over — or at least it is for me as I'm no longer in Dallas surrounded by hundreds of games and gamers. No matter as I can reminisce over the many games that I played during the...