🕵️ Detective: City of Angels – Board Game Review & Gameplay Overview
Step into the dark, gritty streets of 1940s Los Angeles in Detective: City of Angels, the noir-inspired board game where deception, deduction, and bluffing collide. In this video, we dive deep into the gameplay, mechanics, and player experience to see if this cinematic investigation game deserves a spot on your gaming table.
We’ll cover:
Core gameplay mechanics & rules overview
What makes it unique compared to other detective board games
Player interaction, bluffing, and strategy
Who this game is best suited for
Whether you’re a fan of mystery games, deduction challenges, or immersive storytelling, this review will help you decide if Detective: City of Angels is the right game for you.
🎲 Have you played Detective: City of Angels? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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This week, our main course is Your Favourite Games Are Flawed. We've each picked three games that are favourites of the other person's and we've prepared the aspect of each of these games we think is the worst thing about them. And as will always be the case, each host comes with a little appetizer to talk about ahead of that main course topic.
Thank you for listening and being here for the launch of All You Can Board's Podcast!
We're proudly sponsored by VICTORY PINTS, who specialize in board games and are located in our hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They aim to have the best board game selection in the city and are also happy to special order you anything they don't have available! Pop in and purchase any board games that have been featured on AYCB in the last year and say the discount code "TOP SHELF BILLING" to receive 10% off the games!
Games AND Wine - could there be anything more on-brand for me? Find out how it went and if you'd like your own game, you can use BVDICEY for 10% off - order by February 9th to get it in time for Valentine's Day! Thanks to Blind Vine for sponsoring this and making my Girl's Night possible! GetBlindVine.com #sponsored
🎲 Looking for the best solo board games of all time?
In this video, we’re sharing our all-time favorite solo board gaming experiences in this special Jānis G. Edition of solo games of all time! Whether you love deep strategic choices, immersive themes, or epic adventures, these solo games deliver incredible experiences when you’re flying solo.
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:11 10th
1:40 9th
3:03 8th
4:38 7th
6:15 6th
7:25 5th
8:52 4th
10:25 3rd
11:39 2nd
13:08 1st
14:35 Outro
Board Game Hangover is your go-to channel for everything board games! From the best board game reviews, playthroughs, and top 10 lists to board game upgrades, house rules, and gameplay tips — we help you discover the best board games, improve your board gaming experience, and have a good laugh along the way. Whether you're into strategy board games, party games, solo board gaming, or family board games, you're in the right place.
Today, we are bringing you a vlog from our recent gaming marathon.
We thought we'd try to tackle the Shelf of "chosen name" and get some unplayed games played.
The goal was 40 games in 4 days!
Join us to find out if we made it or not!
Social media has had a real impact on board game design! We’ve been 3 major trends throughout the last decade or so, whether or not a game has been kickstarted or not. From feels good outcomes, to drawing a lot of cards and seeing new information, instagram has definitely made things have better accuracy, or better first impressions. We can see this in many popular BGG games, whether or not they’re Euros, as this applies to campaign and Ameritrash games too! Even the 4x genre is left changed. But this isn’t a bad thing, it just means that the tabletop experience is changing, with the cream of the crop strategy gaming tending to rise to the top.
Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Insta-Plussing - (1:05)
Feels Good Gaming - (8:19)
Design Considerations - (15:03)
Discovery vs. Mastery Discussion w/BrotherMing - (17:01)
Aesthetics over Depth? - (20:32)
Final Thoughts - (22:08)
Quick word about TCGs - (26:18)
Games featured: Earth, Wingspan, Root, War of the Ring, Twilight Struggle, Thunder’s Edge, Twilight Imperium, Dune Imperium, Everdell, Wyrmspan, Finspan, Chess, Boop, Lords of Waterdeep, Splendor, Carcassone, El Grande, Yugioh, Sid Meier’s 2010 Civilization Revolution, Re;ACT, Dead of Winter, Hive, Shogu, Scythe, Puerto Rico, Nemesis Retaliation, Fate of the Fellowship, Terraforming Mars
Line goes up! In Speculation from Dirk Henn & Queen Games, stocks in eight companies will rise and fall relative to each other. Players are poor traders with limited starting capital, trying to make their fortunes by buying low, selling high, rinsing and repeating.
The original self-published game from 1992 used dice to determine how far stocks rise and what actions players can do. In this 2013 re-edition, the die faces are moved onto tokens pulled from a bag. Dice are bad, or so I'm told, but the bags aren't an improvement. Find a way to use dice instead for an easy, breezy stock market experience.
00:00 Intro ▶️
02:48 How to Play 🎲
16:27 Is It a Gem? 💎
Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten!
Would adults enjoy a quick strategy game that looks like it’s for kids?
In this video, we answer that exact question. While Toy Battle (by legendary designers Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini) might look like a childhood fever dream, underneath the fire-breathing T-Rexes lies a surprisingly cutthroat tactical experience. We dive into whether this 15-minute clash has enough "crunch" for the hobbyist table.
Paolo also designed Ethnos , Libertalia , and Fall of Rome!
THE ADULT PERSPECTIVE:
Don't let the 8+ age rating fool you. We break down why the mechanics are more "Chess" than "Candy Land":
• The Connection Rule: Why your entire strategy can collapse if you don't maintain a path from your H.Q.
• Tactical Overtaking: Using Troop Strength (1–7 and Jokers) to bury your opponent's units.
• Region Control: The spatial puzzle of surrounding closed zones to snatch Medals.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Complexity & Play Count
01:04 Victory Conditions & How It Plays
02:46 Skills
04:00 Final Thoughts: Does it belong on an adult's shelf?
07:38 Contact & Socials
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Do you think a "kid-friendly" aesthetic keeps you away from great games, or do you love the contrast? Let’s discuss in the comments!
The Component Game – Round 2 | The Ultimate Board Game Component Showdown
Welcome back to The Component Game – Round 2! 🎲
This time, we’re diving even deeper into the weird, wonderful, and sometimes completely unnecessary components that come packed inside modern board games.
From chunky wooden bits and deluxe tokens to baffling inserts and overproduced nonsense, we put board game components under the microscope and ask the important questions:
Do they improve the game? Are they worth the price? Or are they just shiny distractions?
Expect hot takes, brutal honesty, and plenty of component-based judgement as we compare, critique, and celebrate the best (and worst) bits in tabletop gaming.
If you love board games, hate pointless bling, or just enjoy a good rant about cardboard, this one’s for you.
👉 Like, subscribe, and let us know in the comments which components you think deserve praise… or the bin.
We attended our local board gaming convention, Gameitoba, and between us, played 13 games across 2 days. And spoiler alert, none of them were bad! Come hear about our thoughts on all of the sessions, as well as what were the Top 3 Games we each played.
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0:00 Gameitoba
3:45 Hot Streak
4:48 That's Not a Hat
9:37 EGO
18:10 For Sale
19:48 Challengers!
24:39 Ready Set Bet
28:09 Panda Spin
36:03 Gazebo
44:31 Biblios
45:47 Trio x2
48:32 No Thanks x2
49:56 Stonespine Architects
53:55 RA
58:08 Top 3 - Dylann
59:00 Top 3 - Carlo
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Wroth
1:48 Luthier
3:16 Arcs
5:02 Heat
6:42 LOTR: The Two Towers
8:50 LOTR: Fate of the Fellowship
9:52 Spirited
12:13 SETI
13:30 Speakeasy
15:10 The Old King's Crown
16:27 Carnuta
17:40 Dewan
19:43 Outro
Board Game Hangover is your go-to channel for everything board games! From the best board game reviews, playthroughs, and top 10 lists to board game upgrades, house rules, and gameplay tips — we help you discover the best board games, improve your board gaming experience, and have a good laugh along the way. Whether you're into strategy board games, party games, solo board gaming, or family board games, you're in the right place.
Blitzkrieg! Board Game Review – Is This the Best 20-Minute War Game?
In this review of Blitzkrieg! by Paolo Mori, we take a deep dive into one of the fastest and most brutal two-player war games on the market. Can this small box really deliver the full tension of World War II in under 30 minutes?
We’ll cover:
How Blitzkrieg! plays
What makes it different from other war games
Replayability and strategy depth
Who this game is actually for
Whether it deserves a place in your collection
If you’re looking for a highly tactical, abstract-style board game that’s quick to learn but hard to master, Blitzkrieg! might be one of the best dueling games ever made.
Perfect for fans of fast two-player games, historical themes, and brutally clever design.
2026 has barely started and ~1000 new board games have been announced! We've read about the mechanics, looked at designers, absorbed the artwork and landed on our Top 10 Most Anticipated Board Games of 2026.
Thanks for stopping by! We're Amy & Maggie aka ThinkerThemer. We're an Australian couple with two very different perspectives of what makes a great board game - Amy (Thinker) is all about the mechanics and enjoys tight, competitive games, and Maggie (Themer) is all about the storytelling and the theme of the game, and the 'world' that the designer is trying to create. Subscribe to our channel to hear us talk about these two elements of a game, and how well integrated we feel these are in delivering a cohesive and wonderful game experience. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/450923/the-danes
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