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Press art for Warhammer Quest Blackstone where a Knight in armor with a fancy sci fi monocle is flanked by floating skulls with lights and peering in the dark towards his enemies

Too Big to Succeed: Warhammer Quest and the Imposing Scope of Blackstone Fortress

By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2025

Blackstone Fortress is an elaborate, ambitious, impressive game, but it was also the first of the Warhammer Quest installments to become too intimidating for me.

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A mashup of the boxes for Hybrid and Claustrophobia, with stylized typefaces, big guys with guns, blue and red and green all over the place

Versus Mode: Claustrophobia x Hybrid

By Orrin Grey • June 13th, 2025

So, which one’s the winner? I dunno, I haven’t actually played either of them!

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A crop of the cover of the box for Flamecraft, Where a young witch in a pointy hat is watching as a server uses a small dragon to flambe her creme brule, with shelves of pastries behind them, a couple of dragon minis from the game in the corner and the logo splashed across the bottom

Keeping the Flame: Flamecraft and the Pleasing Complexity of Resource Management

By Orrin Grey • March 8th, 2023

Naturally, that’s a bit like judging a book by its cover but, as I have discussed before, the look and feel of a game is actually every bit as important as how it plays.

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The cover of the rules PDF for World of Warcraft: The Board Game, featuring the sharp and stylized text of the title over a small portion of an old map

A Whole New World of Warcraft: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • February 14th, 2023

Innumerable brightly-colored miniatures and a cartographic board making it all seem reminiscent of a fantasy game of Risk.

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A shot of two mini figures from Warhammer: Lost Relics, a robed warrior brandishing a lamp and a hammer-wielding cleric prepaing to strike, both standing on a sample of the various ground textures available to dungeon crawl through

Unexpected Joys in Small Packages in Warhammer Quest: Lost Relics

By Orrin Grey • January 23rd, 2023

Lost Relics feels a bit more like a game of chess (albeit played against the board) than a standard dungeon crawl.

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The tite from the Doom board game (2004) cover of the rules with the mid-era cyber Doom font and the spooky Diablo font

Fragged!: Translating DOOM to the Tabletop via a Somewhat Unlikely Route

By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2022

Despite the box art and the demonic miniatures, DOOM is fundamentally an action game that isn’t particularly interested in horror.

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