Some games just look so good that you want to buy them, play them, and share…
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Calvin’s Commentaries: Greener
Greener is one of those great little abstract strategy games in a bag from XV games.…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tonooo
It was interesting to get Tonooo to the table. This is one of those interesting games…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Squarriors: The Card Game
Among the members of the tiny Meeple Guild, we own literally dozens and dozens and dozens…
Calvin’s Commentaries: X-Mas Games
So the calendar has flipped to December, so it’s time to think of holiday gifts for…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dungeon WC
When it comes to theme board games have covered just about everything, or at least I…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tasso
Typically dexterity games are either love them, or leave them in my world. Crokinole is the…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Libraria
When it comes to abstract strategy games there is a lot to be said for simplicity.…
Calvin’s Commentaries: 1066
While not a massive fan of historical battle recreation games – not something I generally seek…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Wizard’s Garden
As a bonafide fan of abstract strategy games I am quite surprised it has taken so…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Parks
If you are a sucker for great looking games then you will be blown away by…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Aristeia
The best games, or perhaps these days, like movies, almost all games, end up with expansions.…
Calvin’s Commentaries: WatchGuard
This is a somewhat different review in the sense it’s not about a particular game. Instead,…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Forest Fighters
Personally, I like deck builder quite a lot. Ditto the group as a whole. But, as…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dice Settlers
So let’s start here with a statement of preference, I do not like dice. I’m pretty…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Up and Across
As a lover of abstract strategy games, it’s always interesting to get my hands on essentially…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Coldwater Crown
If you like fishing, and I count myself among those who do, then Coldwater Crown is…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Sovereign Chess
In the world of board games, one thing which is not in short supply is chess…
Calvin’s Commentaries: 11:59
You really have to be intrigued by a game that comes in a neat little tin…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Grey Cells
Often we think of role-playing games as those set in the world of swords and sorcery…
Calvin’s Commentaries: V Commandos
There are times when your first impression of a board game can simply be wrong. Such…
Calvin’s Commentaries: El Alamein
A few weeks back I reviewed Barbarossa, a deck builder based on the Second World War…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Flint and Feather
A handful of miniatures and a table covered with terrain and you have the basis for…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Rone
As a gamer who is fairly confident in saying he had the first Magic the Gathering…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Martial Art Battlefields
It was just a year ago April that Martial Art from designers Adrian Marrs, and Jonathan…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Hardback
This week’s game is one I personally had been very much looking forward to playing. Deck-builders…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Girl Genius: The Works
When it comes to game designers James Ernest is one of my favourite. Ernest’s best game…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Direwild
The idea of using deck building as a core mechanic in a dungeon-crawl game is not…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Barbarossa
Dominion is usually seen as the grandmother of deck building games, hit the stores in its…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tanto Cuore
Tanto Cuore originally launched in 2009, and the deck builder has seen a number of additions…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Triad
There are games that you sit down to play and quickly wonder how it is the…