It's maybe pure ignorance on my part but I've never seen a huge number of board games that sit within the organised crime genre. There seems to be more Sci-Fi than Scarface. I own The Godfather: Corleone's Empire, which was a grail game for me and was its own tale of negotiation and acquisition and offers that couldn't be refused. Wise Guys from Gale Force Nine enters the fray with a Goodfellas attitude on how you win at life, which is to gather up as much money as possible, without effecting your influence and clout and your ability to make money on the black market. It is a remix of a Sons of Anarchy game from a few years ago, but this time it returns without a connected IP. There's an attraction to this kind of genre of game, because these are criminals, but also the ultimate in non-conformists to a societal norm. Most of us don't want to work a normal job with a steady life and pay check if given the choice. Some of us already live on an edge, working fr
In the situation where some kind of natural disaster strikes, I'm going to be one of the discovered poor souls that got burnt / drown / cooked / cannibalised to death. I can't be bothered with the thought of being the plucky survivor, ending up meeking out some kind of living on the scraps of humanity. If the zombie apocalypse turned up, I'd be out there arms outstretched waiting to be bitten, I'm getting my tan in the nuclear fire. I've never been on Five Games for Doomsday because my answer to the question is "I'm probably already dead Ben to be frank, you c*nt". Which takes me to Hellapagos, a shipwrecked with castaways survival game where within the first five minutes, I've already walked out in to the deep blue tide and taken in a lungful, while sticking the finger up to those trying to make a fishing net out of their left shoe and recent pinned tweet. Without microwave or confirmation of dairy and gluten free options I'm pretty much a de