As most regular readers here probably know, city-building games are my jam. Foundations of Rome is one of my top 5 board games of all time, and I love Frostpunk both in digital format and the board game adaptation. So when I found out about Dawnmaker, a city-building and deck-building game set in a smog-filled […]

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In the Footsteps of Darwin imagines a world where Charles Darwin is still hard at work on the book that would one day make him a household name. To shore up his theory, he has sent the players out into the world to gather additional supporting evidence. The expansion In the Footsteps of Darwin: Correspondence continues this narrative, adding some brand new elements as well as tweaking and refining some elements which already exist. 

What’s New?

Correspondence introduces a whole host of new components and concepts, all of which reside on the new ‘England board’, which sits beside the Journey board during play. The first thing of note is that the Darwin standee is no longer in the hands of the players. Instead, it rests in its own quadrant of the England board. This quadrant is divided into four squares. As players draft tiles featuring the Darwin icon, rather than change ownership of the standee as in the base game, the Darwin standee will shift into the next square in clockwise order, doling out one (or both) of the two new resources that are introduced by the expansion: Envelope and Classification tokens.

During setup, the left side of the England board is populated with a number of face up…

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Who else has watched the Disney cartoon 101 Dalmatians as a kid? Spots is a light dice game about dalmatians! Well, maybe not specifically dalmatians. Just dogs with spots. Many of the dogs in this game don't actually look like dalmatians. This is a game with a bit of push-your-luck, in which you race to fill six dog cards with dice of the right number of pips.  You start

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From the creators at Fireside Games comes a deluxe edition release of Hotshots, a cooperative, press-your-luck board game.