The Board Soul Together Alone By Jeremy Signor • February 1st, 2018 Even a little player interaction goes a long way towards making a game feel dynamic and exciting. Karuba shows what happens when you take all those things away.
Seeland and the Community of Economy By Sam Desatoff • January 18th, 2018 One of my favorite examples of game economy comes from a rather unassuming title. Seeland is a game about using windmills to reclaim land from the sea.
The Tentacled Spirit of Yharnam, in Card Stock By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2018 The pitch void and tentacled spirit of Yharnam has come to your table, in a much more accessible package of thick board stock and gory ink, as Bloodborne: The Card Game.
The Board Soul What Keeps You Going By Jeremy Signor • January 16th, 2018 Is the thrill of opening up a game more and more enough to carry a game? In Charterstone’s case, it isn’t.
Best Board Games We Played in 2017 By Jeremy Signor and Team Unwinnable • January 4th, 2018 These are the board games that impressed the Unwinnable writers the most in 2017.
The Board Soul Skin Deep By Jeremy Signor • December 21st, 2017 Why do we deem judging a game based on how it looks as superficial? A game’s aesthetic beauty is every bit as integral to its quality as its gameplay.
Simplicity Rules in El Dorado By Sam Desatoff • December 14th, 2017 What makes El Dorado so good is its simplicity. A mashup of two different genres has the potential to become clunky and confusing, but that is not the case here.
The Board Soul The Board Soul – Focus By Jeremy Signor • December 7th, 2017 Deck building games usually focus on the murky, random world of building up your own deck. Clank shifts that focus to something more tangible and communal.
Gunsword, Casual Repartee, Chess and Dragonlance By Levi Rubeck • November 28th, 2017 Gunsword whipped my head right over with delicious high fantasy visuals that brought to mind the Larry Elmore Dragonlance covers of my youth, and the only thing better than guns and swords is the fusion of the two.
The Board Soul Fuck Colonialism By Jeremy Signor • November 16th, 2017 Board gaming’s obsession with romanticizing colonialism is harmful and holding the medium back.
