Hyperstar Run

Sometimes in reviewing games you have the opportunity to do something rather cool. I find that…

Reforest: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

In a rather short time, The Meeple Guild have become fans of Canadian game designer Sébastien…

Hockey

It stands to reason that in the long winters on the Canadian Prairies, someone would take…

Tripped

A package arrives one day and inside is a rather delightful find in terms of a…

Battlefield Cribbage

There are card games one will try that you just want to love. Battlefield Cribbage created…

Topple

High-quality game that provides quick fun Certainly component quality matters in a game. As players –…

Bird Dog – a three-player surprise

It’s a Friday afternoon – one where three Meeple Guilders were off – so it was…

Waggle Dance

There are always games that surprise, some falling well short of expectations and others that exceed…

Catching some fish on the Blackjack River

There will be times headed to the holidays when gamers will find themselves at home alone…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Alpina

If cuteness is a great game, then the recent release Alpina would score very well out…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Vampires & Villagers

Well here we are on the eve of Halloween so one more card game that fits…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Split Trick

Halloween lies ahead, so it seems a perfect time to cover a game themed to the…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Box of Spiders

This pre-Halloween offering comes from designer Stephen Tavener with Box of Spiders. This is among a…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Aridnyk

The Meeple Guild has been reviewing for quite some time, and playing games even longer, so…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Three Hags

Something for Halloween The Meeple Guild is going to be providing some added ‘mini’ reviews over…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Café

Ever get a game to the table and everything about it was fine, and yet nothing…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Odin

So a small box arrives containing the recently released card game Odin. That was immediately interesting…

Try to influence the Gurus

The theme in Kundalini – if theme matters greatly in a two-player card game, is a…

Game reflects truly Canadian theme

With the start of September we roll close to ‘Culture Days’ in Canada so for the…

Stack those flapjacks

The idea was to end PnP summer with the passing of August, but then I came…

Sinoda impresses at multiple player counts

When it comes to abstract strategy games – a genre this writer particularly enjoys – a…

Awaken the old trees

Every once in a while you can be wandering down an online rabbit hole and find…

One ‘ECK’ of a game

When it comes to card games, trick-taking might lead in terms of most games with it…

Learn something about aquatic life as you play

Continuing with a Canadian theme for September we take a look at Pacific Ocean from Timashov…

INYO

Wrapping up September’s tip of the hat to Culture Days with a month of Canadian-designed games…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Faraway

Some games cross The Meeple Guild table that prove quite frankly divisive in the sense not…

Calvin’s Commentaries: There be dragons in those caves

When it comes to print and play games some of the simplest ‘builds’ are abstract strategy…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Centurion

Regular readers will know this member of The Meeple Guild loves abstract strategy games. So I…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Fighting off kaiju

Admittedly I tend to gravitate to card-based PnP games as an easy build, but then you…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Harrow County

Some board games of course emerge from other places of popular culture – for example the…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Be an alien; find your way home

As we near the end of our ‘PnP Summer Series’ choosing what games to finish has…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Genesis: Battle of Champions

There are game reviews that are super simple to write – those games you love, or…

Calvin’s Commentaries: Take a quest at coffeetime

Quests Over Coffee is a simple little 18-card print-and-play. When a game is only a couple…