So let’s start here with a statement of preference, I do not like dice. I’m pretty…
Calvin’s Commentaries
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: Trinity
I have to say out of the mail wrapping I was immediately impressed by the packaging…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Hand of Fate: Ordeals
Sometimes the ‘fluff’ that accompanies a game’s ruleset just grabs you. “You, traveller, have been chosen…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Linear Pursuit
There is always something generally positive about simplicity when it comes to abstract strategy games. And…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dice Throne
Some games just impress from the time you glimpse the box on a shelf, through to…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tank Chess
When I first saw that there was a game called Tank Chess I have to say…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Castle Siege Chess
When it comes to chess variants there are dozens, if not hundreds. Most are roughly thought…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Romans vs Britons
Romans vs Britons is yet another outstanding two-player abstract strategy game created by Jon Hather and…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Helionox: Deluxe Edition
Deck builder games have become a definite area of interest for our gaming group. It helped…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Lockwood’s Asylum
Admittedly, horror has never been one of the ‘genres’ I have gravitated to in anything. Yes,…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Age of Thieves
Are you stealthy enough to steal the Emperor’s jewel? That is the question you try to…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Burgle Bros
There is a lot of potential surrounding the idea of being part of a team of…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Brass Empire
This game is different from most reviewed here. Brass Empire is a strategic deck-building card game…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Mini DiverCity
The concept of a co-operative game is interesting among board games in as much as it…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Pichenotte Hockey
In my world, it’s hard to imagine a board game that would interest more than a…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Volfyirion
It is always fun to get a game in its prototype stage, a sneak peek, into…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Forest Fighters
Personally, I like deck builder quite a lot. Ditto the group as a whole. But, as…