The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they. I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth. For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play
This review is based on the final retail version of The Taverns of Tiefenthal. We were provided a copy of the game by Coiledspring Games for the purpose of this review. We have not been paid for the review. One of the extraordinary things about being involved in the lockdown, is discovering the amount of extra that goes into things that are the ordinary and mundane, in order to make them palatable. The absence of chopped tomatoes on shelves in the local supermarket suggests that there are people who have attempted that stalwart UK dish of spaghetti bolognese. They have decided to master the art of a decent tomato sauce, and probably had visions of taking that step into the territory of never needing to open a twist jar again. Fast forward to the horror and shock at the dinner table upon the realisation that the humble tomato is actually a rather sour experience without the careful disguise of garlic and onions and a dentist wincing amount of sugar. We've been conditioned, and I was