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Crop of the box art for Dungeon Scrawlers Heroes of Undermountain with cute cartoon drawings of an orc, an elf, and a tiefling wielding markers

Draw!: Reaching the End of the Line in Dungeon Scrawlers

By Orrin Grey • April 14th, 2025

Dungeon Scrawlers has much more in common with the placemat at a fast food restaurant than with a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

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A photo of the halloween version of Boop called BOOooop with an orange bed with pumpkins and spooky stuff as a board and meepeles as white cats with jack o lanterns, black cats in which hats, and ghostly cats as well

Herding Cats: Thinky Thoughts and Scaredy Cats in BOOoop

By Orrin Grey • March 14th, 2025

Boop!

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A picture of many of the components for King of Tokyo: Duel, with cards featuring ice aliens, mecha kaiju breathing fire, a city of flashing lights, and dice and tokens

There Can Be Only Two: Fame and Destruction Come in Pairs in King of Tokyo: Duel

By Orrin Grey • February 14th, 2025

Where King of Tokyo is, in essence, a game of king of the hill, Duel is more like tug of war.

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The box art for Tidal Blades Heroes of the Reef cropped in on the title though we can still see a rich blue sky, green specked islands and houses and trees, the back of a hero with a sword and an elder in a straw had speaking to the hero

Heroes of the Reef: The Art and World of Tidal Blades

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

To prove your mettle, you must compete in a tournament.

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A promo picture of all the components of Warhammer 40 K Fireteam with a big urban map and many miniature marines and warriors as well as dice and cards scattered about

In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future There is Occasionally Very Small War: Fireteam and Warhammer Underworlds

By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2024

Fireteam brings many of the elements that make Underworlds tick to the grimdark 40k universe, to varying effect.

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A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds in action with a hex map, cards on a table, several six-sided dice, and many miniatures of various warriors, with bows, swords, and other weapons

Mad About Underworlds: In This Case, I Mean Mad as in Angry

By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2024

The Warhammer: Underworlds warbands have a level of personality that larger armies simply can’t, with each individual model given a name, special rules, and some character that help it to pop.

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A crop of the cover for the game Bump in the Night where a terrified child cowers under the blankets while skeletal death hovers above them

Midnight in the Garden of Goo: Going Haunting with Bump in the Night

By Orrin Grey • October 22nd, 2024

There’s an odd sense that, somehow, what we’re pulling from are more weirdo Italian movies like Ghosthouse than more standard haunted house fare.

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A picture of The Ghosts Betwixt on the table with a colorful map of a house full of tiles with baseball bat swinger, slingshot dead eye, golf homie, and baddies with kitchen weapons and stained clothes

Everyone’s Heard the Stories: Dungeon Crawling in the Haunted Heartland with The Ghosts Betwixt

By Orrin Grey • October 8th, 2024

The Ghosts Betwixt takes a cue from Stranger Things to tell a story set in the “1990s haunted heartland”

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A closeup of the board for Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed, with a purple layout, comic drawing of the control room, bats, and skulls with peace symbols for eyes for some resaon

The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game

By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024

When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.

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A picture of all the bits of Starquest Arcadia Build a Bot expansion, with some space pirate like minis with guns and computers as well as a red board and smaller space ship boards to move the minis around on

Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics

By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024

It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!

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