Nature is a game by @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social where you evolve nature's most un-huntable critters... and the animals who hunt them. It is beautiful. my review: manaworm.com/2025/11/10/n... #boardgames

I wrote about the first trick-taking game I ever played, The Fox in the Forest. It remains one of my favorites, and one of the few I can still get to the table. my review: manaworm.com/2025/11/04/t... #boardgames

My October plays. Got sort of addicted to Death May Die, but played a decent selection of other stuff too. What've you been playing? 🎲 #boardgames

I play a lot of word games but Things in Rings stands out. There's a facilitator who gets to have a good time, a cooperative variant that's actually fun, and a frivolous understanding of labels ready to be undermined. My review: manaworm.com/2025/10/28/t... #boardgames

as a pacers fan, it feels like a cruel joke to have our first game without tyrese be clutch moment after clutch moment. gonna suck not seeing him out there all year. #nbasky

Fear of the Unknown is the second standalone box in the Death May Die universe, designed by @ericlang.bsky.social, @robdaviau.bsky.social, and Marco Portugal. As the first "big" game I've really dove into, I didn't know what to expect. My review: manaworm.com/2025/10/21/f... #boardgames

@kennysun.com made one of the most criminally underrated rogue-lites ever in mr. sun's hatbox. ball x pit might be even better! so good

Flamecraft is an adorable game about building up a town square and getting heaps of points for doing so. I enjoy enchanting and making potions but I find myself asking, "Is competition really the driver of the dragon-latte industry?" My review: manaworm.com/2025/10/16/f... #boardgames

Please Don't Burn My Village! is a neat 20 minute market speculation, push your luck game. There is a weird dragon whose face I don't like. But I do have some quite positive thoughts on the game. My review: manaworm.com/2025/10/11/p... #boardgames

I love drafting games, but those games tend to be razor-sharp. Let's Go! To Japan offers a cozy alternative. It's a game for those who love reading Wikipedia articles and restaurant menus, basking in the anticipation of a well-planned trip. My review: manaworm.com/2025/10/04/l... #boardgames

🎲 Got some good plays in this September. A couple of new favorites, too. #boardgames #bgstats

FlipToons takes the formula of Luck Be a Landlord and shrinks it down into a 20 minute small box card game. A great deckbuilding 101 style game, with a pretty good solo mode, too. My review: manaworm.com/2025/09/27/f... #boardgames

shocking: local man finally tries out slay the spire board game and it's... really good. people really weren't kidding about how well it's adapted, huh

In Duel for Cardia, tactical losses compound to gradual wins. It is a clever treat, albeit one that may have trouble standing out. My review: manaworm.com/2025/09/23/d... #boardgames

With the second printing and retail release of Leviathan Wilds, I finally got a chance to claw my way up the side of all these behemoths. Here's my review, an ode to these sick leviathans and the heights they reach: manaworm.com/2025/09/18/l... #boardgames

Sky Team is one of the easiest two player games to recommend to just about anyone. I wrote about how good it is, even if the theme of two pilots who can't communicate is a little... strange. manaworm.com/2025/09/12/s... #boardgames

the running joke in my family is that I always *always* get a rule wrong that makes the cooperative game we are learning way harder to win. i just saw someone explain the rules to the lord of the rings trick taking game and realized i did it again. #boardgames

I wrote about Blade Runner-inspired roleplaying board game Inhuman Conditions. It's about, among other things, Being A Normal Chill Guy. My review: manaworm.com/2025/09/05/i... #boardgames #ttrpg

🎲 Here's (most) of what I played in August. A very co-op, fairly light month. #bgstats #boardgames

I love @dom2d.bsky.social's art, deduction, and not blowing up. A lot of people seem to agree. My review of Bomb Busters: manaworm.com/2025/09/01/b... #boardgames

I wrote about Alibis, a new game by Allplay about exonerating villains with one-word clues. If you want a new Codenames-adjacent game, you should give this one a try. My review: manaworm.com/2025/08/25/a... #boardgames

Kinfire Delve is a very cool take on the "one deck dungeon" style of smooshing a dungeon crawl into a tiny box. There's a lot of offerings in the Kinfire universe but for 20 dollars, this seemed like a good place to start. My review of Callous' Lab: manaworm.com/2025/08/19/k... #boardgames

Ahead of the new Extra Pepper expansion, I reviewed Sea Salt & Paper. It's a game that allows you to be very annoying to your partner by taking all the stuff they discard and some cards from their hand, too. #boardgames manaworm.com/2025/08/14/s...

New review! I wrote about Santorini: Second Edition, how intimidating 1v1 abstracts can be, and an abundance of plastic. It's a good game, too. #boardgames

Rounding out my launch lineup of reviews, I wrote about Canvas, a game with a neat gimmick of slotting transparent pieces of art into card sleeves. The resulting paintings are funny, cute and, hopefully, brimming with victory points. manaworm.com/2025/08/05/c... #boardgames

That's so far out of fucking line, I'm kind of stunned. Then I thought, wait, if they represented Black people this way...And sure enough, got ourselves a glowing-eyed Indian with steer horns. JFC. Devir, this is way beyond "oops". This looks intentional. Leave Natives out of your products.

In Top Tier, you will argue which historical or fictional character would best lead the Mighty Ducks to a championship. It has potential, but falls short of party game greatness. You do get to make some funny tier lists though. My review here: manaworm.com/2025/08/05/t... #boardgames

I reviewed Nanatoridori, a quite good and simple card shedding game about well-dressed birds. It's a sweet treat where you get to do a lot of the cool cardsgame-y things you probably like to do. It's coming to North America soon, too. #boardgames manaworm.com/2025/08/05/n...

I wrote about Faraway and the rarely gamified parts of long journeys; saying goodbye to the people you've met and coming back home. It's also about picking up rocks. #boardgames manaworm.com/2025/08/05/f...

I started writing about board games over on a new blog! I'll be sharing my reviews/essays/etc. on BlueSky when I publish them. There's a couple already on there and they're pretty good, I'm proud of what I have done. #boardgames #boardgamesky manaworm.com

🎲 got a handful of new games in July, played some at a couple boardgame cafes, and revisited some older games I haven't gotten off my shelf in a while #bgstats #boardgames

🎲 played a lot of boardgames in june. will probably play a lot again in july. #boardgames

i will forgive knicks fans for being knicks fans if zohran wins

can't help but feel like we were just robbed of an all-time great game 7, regardless of whether the outcome would've been any different.

of all the ways this pacers season could've ended tonight, that is somehow worse than i could've imagined

stephen a smith heard someone mention clueless talking heads and got offended he wasn't mentioned by name

my most played boardgames for the month of may. played a lot of bga this month; making it a soft-goal to try out as many games on there as i can. maybe eventually all of them but like, that's a thousand games. good month! #bgstats

the osrs sailing alpha is pretty sick, but my boat is almost always entirely cloaked in black including all the facilities.

got my dragon pick on the group iron (bad collection log screenshot)! now i won't be dead weight at zalcano

a productive boardgaming month, but i have really been itching to get some heavier stuff to the table. not pictured, but i did learn and play castles of burgundy twice. turns out, it's a classic for a reason. also the mtg plays happened at aetherdrift prerelease!

🎲 another average-ish performance at link city, the game where my partner gets mad at me for not knowing how cities work. really good game.

🎲 played a nice three player game of Can't Stop tonight. i haven't seen this version of the board before, i thought it was always the big plasticky thing instead of this little neoprene stopsign and wooden pieces.

🎲 my partner got me cascadia for christmas and beat me by 3 in our first play. late to the party, but the components feel super premium, from the cardstock to the wooden animal tokens to the rulebook and the scorepad.

my #bgstats for the year, with turn-based bga plays filtered out. played some good ones 🎲

jarace walker just recreated haliburton's off-the-backboard pass to the corner from last season perfectly. the only two players to ever do that?

🎲 sagrada feels like a christmas game to me

🎲 played the dragon game everyone talked about for a bit. my partner didn't really like it. i think I did.

saw Hitster on sale for like 10 bucks at target so figured why not-- for a boardgame that is entirely dependent on an app (spotify premium, at that) and has zero art assets, it's good. wouldn't have considered if it weren't for the dice tower's pretty solid recommendation.

i have no interest at all in lord of the rings, but the lotr trick taking game looks gorgeous and really fun

🎲 nice game night with the brother in law. forgot to take any pictures until we were already winding down with some lacuna, but it was a great time. got a very tight win in marvel champions, tried the new mtg jumpstart packs, and played unmatched for the first time.