Super Fantasy Brawl is a 2-player game in which you control a team of three fighters and you go head to head against the opponent team in a grand arena decorated with three statues.  You don’t fight to the death. Instead you race to score points. Fighters don’t die. They respawn at the deployment zone. You score points by knocking out enemy fighters and by completing challenges, which

The Flatiron building is a famous landmark in New York, well-known for its triangular shape. When I first saw the name, I thought it was rather weird because I thought it was pronounced as "fla-tee-ron". Only after I saw the Chinese name I realised this name was "flat" and "iron" combined. I feel dumb now. This is a 2-player game about constructing the Flatiron building. You are builders

Moonshine is a game about running a speakeasy in the prohibition era. You roll dice to generate resources. You have some casual customers who can help you generate resources or roll more dice. You will spend resources to recruit your casual customers to become loyal customers. Some of these give permanent benefits. Some give points. When you reach 12 points, the game ends and you win. 

12 - 14 December 2025 was the BGC boardgame retreat organised by Jeff and Wai Yan of boardgamecafe.net. This is already their 13th year doing this. Although I have known Jeff and Wai Yan for many years, this was the first time I participated in their annual retreat. I did participate in a mini retreat some years ago, but this was not the main annual event. So I consider myself a newbie. 

Quantum is a game of interstellar colonisation and warfare. The spaceships in the game are dice. Different die values represent spaceships of different classes. They have different speeds, strengths and special abilities. You goal is to be able to deploy all your influence cubes. You do this by establishing colonies on planets and by accumulating battle victories.  The play area is

Ra is one of Reiner Knizia's classics, first published in 1999. This is an important game in my boardgame journey, being one of the games I played a lot of when I first got into the hobby. At the time (2003) the game was out of print. I searched for images online and hand made a copy so that I could play it. Now that I think about the time and effort required to hand make a game with 180 tiles, I

Orapa Mine is a game from Korea. You are mining specialists and your company is about to start mining a huge gemstone mine. Your job is to detect the exact positions of the gems. You do this by directing ultrasound signals into the ground and observing how these signals are reflected by the gems.  The game is for 2 to 5 players. With 2 players, each sets up a puzzle, and you

I first played Architects of the West Kingdom as a physical game. Playing online in asynchronous mode is not as good as playing face-to-face. I guess that's true for most boardgames. For strategy games like this, it is still not too bad. There is much you can plan and think about between your turns. You don't have many turns in a game, so the game doesn't go too long. Some games which