We're Not Wizards - Tabletop Board Game Reviews

Jay Cormier is owner operator of Off The Page Games, known for Harrow County, Mind MGMT but has also been involved in the design of over a dozen other games.  Jay also designed the Fail Faster Playtesting Journal which is available on the Game Crafter:  https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts/fail-faster-playtesting-journal We also chat about his experience on filming a new Board game comedy show and how he is supporting new designers with Fail Faster and his recent The Pitch Project.  You can follow Jay and his Antics  https://twitter.com/bamboozlebros      https://twitter.com/failfasterjay  https://offthepagegames.com/  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/20990/jay-cormier 

Straight out the box Galileo Project makes no apologies for its attempt to be bold and brash when it hits your table. The main board will take up a decent amount of space lengthways, filling up spaces with cards and wooden tokens. Player boards shout at your with their Galilean moons of Jupiter. Multicolour disks and tokens sit out on the table ready to be moved and placed and in the middle of it all a rectangular box contains a treasure of poker chips. These megacredits have a reassuring tactile weight in your hand and you'll be forgiven if you spend more time flexing them between your fingers than you will having them simply sitting their placid on your spot on the table.  Galileo is all about the points. Building up an engine that slowly increases the power at your hands to create and develop on the four moons of Jupiter using a mixture of human specialists and machines. As the development of the moons grow, so does your abilities when you do take a turn, leading up to a points

It has certainly been the season for bright and colourful number based games. First we had the gentle and muted but highly brain bending Hiroba, a Sudoku mechanical machine of gardens and carp. Now we have the quite frankly fabulous technicoloured glory of Pearladora. Which is like mixture of squares and battleships, where the true value of your diver is hidden from prying eyes until the very end of the game.  Squares is a game I played as a kid, where you would draw out a grid made of dots and then take turns to try to create squares by drawing one line at a time to create a full square that you would gleefully embellish with your initial. In Pearladora, you're trying to place down lines in order to carve out territories and place numbered divers in order to win those areas and claim the cache of pearls for your own team. Moves are simple, you're either going to place a diver with a number in order to try to claim an area of the ocean or you're going to place up to two pon

  Without further ado, here are the top 12 games for 2022 that we covered and reviewed in the last 12 months. Not all the games were released this year and technically, one of them was reviewed on literally the last day of last year. But, ma hoose, ma rules. Will this list make a huge difference to a companies sales? Will they take to the streets to tell everyone that their game made a certain non-wizard happy? Are they looking for a special badge to add to their box the next printing? Probably no on all counts. But I wanted to say thank you to everyone on this list who provided me with many hours of entertainment.                                                         12. Horizon Zero Dawn  - Steamforged Games "For all the things I wanted it be, it manages to deliver on what it is, which is a highly effective deck building combat hybrid. There’s Horizon Zero Fat on this game. It plays well as a serious of calculated moments and my other criticisms aside, it brings the hunt..&q