Author: Anthony

Have you checked out Kickstarter lately? Holy moly, there are so many good projects running right now! We are going to go on a mini-run of Preview Series episodes as a result. This week, we have the wife and husband team behind Chara Games here to talk about their latest project, Soul of the Empire, live on Kickstarter on the same day as the air date of this podcast. Soul of the Empire deviates from our usual solo and cooperative games menu – this is an area control, asymmetric, combat heavy game in the vein of Kemet or Cry Havoc.…

It’s that time of year again – Chris and Anthony delve into our 2018 Board Game Bracket, pitting 64 games against each other in an epic, three part showdown to determine which has the best use of components. This year, the theme is Components – and our regions are Cards, Cardboard, Wood and Plastic. In this week’s episode, we’re going through all 64 games in Round 1, with 32 unique matchups. Join us next week for Rounds 2-3 and then on March 26th for the finale, where we’ll announce the winner, and the winner of our bracket contest. If you…

Here at Every Night is Game Night, we try our best to cover a huge spectrum of games, ranging from the thematic, imaginative jaunts that Jason loves to the heavy strategy affairs enjoyed by Anthony. In this episode, we double down and give you two groups of games from either end of this spectrum – two economic games and two fantasy adventures. First up, Anthony tells us about a somewhat lesser known yet still magnificent game from Uwe Rosenburg, At the Gates of Loyang (2:15). You will learn, among other things, why the game is beloved in the solo community.…

This week, Chris and Anthony are diving into the growing world of Fantasy Flight’s LCGs and other similar customizable card games with our newest top 10. Make sure you enter our March Board Game Bracket challenge as well for a chance to win a free game: http://www.boardgamersanonymous.com/2018-board-game-bracket-contest/ First up, we share answers from our question of the week, “What game has the best stand up and shout moment?” Then we dive into our acquisition disorders for the week, including Kami Sama and Batman: Gotham City Chronicles. At the table this week, Anthony reviews Town Center and Card City XL, while…

We are traveling back in time this week.. a whole 14 months! 2016 gifted us with some of the most amazing games we’ve ever seen, and we’re here in the future to review some of their expansions. For any expansion, gamers want to know if it adds new, essential gameplay or just more stuff. We have answers for you! Anthony leads us off to talk about Scythe: The Wind Gambit (2:34) with comes with Airships and also different end game conditions. Next, Jason bumbles his way through his impressions of Star Wars Rebellion: Rise of the Empire (11:20), a review…

We are back with another preview series episode, this time with perhaps the smallest game we have ever covered. Palm Island is a resource management game that fits in the palm of your hand! After we get to know Jon, his family, and the founding of Portal Dragon Games, we get into Palm Island itself (11:40). We talk about how the game travels well and doesn’t require a table, then about squeezing as much resource management strategy and tangible decision making into as small a package as possible. In addition to this interview, please check out Anthony’s written preview: http://www.boardgamersanonymous.com/palm-island-review/.…

Another month, another recap of the BGG Hotness. Find out why these games are atop the hot list for February. To kick things off this week, Anthony and Chris look at answers to our question of the week, “What game have you played the most…ever?” We also announce the newest version of our annual Board Game Bracket contest. You can learn more and enter directly here: http://www.boardgamersanonymous.com/2018-board-game-bracket-contest/ For our Acquisition Disorders this week, Anthony looks at Aeon’s End: Legacy and Chris dives into Caverna: Lost Peoples. For our At the Table segments, Anthony reviews Valletta from Stefan Dorra and ZMan…

It’s that time of year again – when we pit 64 games in a category of our choosing for your entertainment. This year, the theme is Components – and our regions are Cards, Cardboard, Wood and Plastic. More importantly, you have an opportunity to join in the fun and fill out your own bracket. Like last year, we’ll be giving away a game to the player whose bracket closest matches our final bracket on Episode 161. The rules?

Palm Island, from designer Jon Mietling and Portal Dragon is on Kickstarter now. A review copy of the game was provided for the purposes of this review. Palm Island is exactly the kind of game I tend to fall for. It’s almost comically concise – with a tiny deck of just 17 cards that you can fit in the palm of your hand. It offers variability, has a number of clever additions and variants for play, and most important of all, it’s a solo game. Combined with a beautiful aesthetic, it’s a game that immediately captured my attention, and one…

After 74 whole episodes, we are happy to receive a visit from the Podfather himself – Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games. For this episode, we experimented a bit with our usual podcast format so we could have some fun. For the first half, we talk about some recent expansions for Stronghold Games we really enjoy – Not Alone: Exploration (5:00) and The Pursuit of Happiness: Community (9:11). Then we preview some upcoming games from Stronghold – Indian Summer (13:41) and Noria (17:00). I recorded a short note about this part of the pod right at the jump, so please check…