Hits & Outs Designer: Ron Halliday Publisher: itten Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 15 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher Hits & Outs (ヒット＆アウト) is inspired by the strategic battle of wits between the pitcher and the batter. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/12/dale-yu-review-of-hits-outs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
The box cover bringing together a group of the major arcana characters is particularly striking.Published versions of Soothsayers' cardsMy Hopes for SoothsayersMy journey with Soothsayers began with a fascination for the iconic illustrations of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, and the design process allowed me to much more deeply explore that connection.I'm thrilled to have designed a game that not only honors the historical roots of tarot as playing cards but also delivers a rich, strategic experien
One of the cards details the 2007 murders of a mother and daughter, Nancy and Joey Bochicchio, after a day of shopping at The Town Center at Boca Raton.
Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is taking a creative new approach to solving cold cases, turning them into a deck of ...
November 2025 Games I played for the first time this month, from worst to best, along with my ratings and comments. Skyjo – 5/10 Skyjo is a very light card game, roughly the weight of other card games you might … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/11/josiahs-monthly-board-game-round-up-november-2025/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Eric Martin ▪️ New Zealand publisher Garphill Games has already crowdfunded one 2026 release — Secret Societies, a S J Macdonald design in which 2-5 players view for control of territories on Earth — but that's only the start of its 2026 plans.In March/April 2026, Garphill will crowdfund MacDonald and Zach Smith's The Great Sea, a game for 2-4 players that is part of the publisher's "Ancient Anthology" series. Here's an overview:From their homeland in the Levant to the distant shores of Carthage
Pyradice Designer: Andre Silva Publisher: mebo Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 30 minutes Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher (mebo) In Pyradice you are part of an ancient civilization whose main goal is to build pyramids. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/10/dale-yu-review-of-pyradice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
As new genres arrive and local creators experiment, those long-standing habits are beginning to shift, sometimes gradually, sometimes with resistance.This brings us to the cultural heartbeat of Vietnam's gaming story: how the country's play culture itself is evolving.The Slow Shifting Board Game CultureVietnam's board game story isn't just about new publishers or cafés; it's also about a community negotiating what kind of play it wants to build.For decades, traditional games like Cờ Cá Ngựa (hor
Six games enter. Only one game wins. I brought six games to Thanksgiving this year to play with my ten-year-old child, my partner, and my seventy-year-old parents. Over the course of a few days, they learned and played each game. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/09/talia-rosen-thanksgiving-game-battle-royale/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Players have a hand of cards, and on most turns they'll play an animal card into one of three columns on the board — but to play an animal card, you must have the appropriately colored scientists in that column, then move each of them in the direction (left or right) indicated on the card.If the vehicle on the card is on the next exploration space in that column, you move the flag down to that space, and the farther you drop the flag, the more points you'll score at game's end.If you move a scie
Garden Designer: Andy Hopwood Publisher: Taiwan Boardgame Design Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 15 min Played with review copy provided by publisher Imagine noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) but with the need to think several moves ahead and with each piece … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/09/dale-yu-review-of-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
I know it had rough corners since the development was rushed, so I decided to revisit the design in a community of more experienced players, focusing mostly on streamlining the experience, making the game language-independent, and improving the UI.In the meantime, I gave away a few copies of the game to Polish publishers at Planszówki w Spodku 2023, but while two publishers were initially interested, after a few months I had no concrete decisions from them.In 2024, I entered the game in a two-pl
Notes the publisher: "[T]he game has been carefully reskinned with Discworld theming and features brand-new added expansion content."A Discworld card game, Kill Sam Vimes, will be released in Q3 2026, with publisher promising that the design "drops your unlucky assassins into a contract to kill the titular character, as they try not to fall foul of deadly (and hilarious) traps and tricks imagined by the Duke of Ankh."In mid-2025, Modiphius crowdfunded Terry Pratchett's Discworld RPG: Adventures
Designers: Matthew and Garrett Weaver Publisher: Weaver Media Group, LLC Players: 1-2 Age: 7+ Duration: 30-45 minutes Price: $35 Over the years, the Opinionated Gamers website has made enough of an impression on our hobby that quite a few publishers … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/08/larry-levy-review-of-baseball-card-gm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County, is set to roll out a unique deck of Unsolved Playing Cards aimed at generating new leads ...
As India celebrates the 90th birth anniversary of Dharmendra, the Bollywood industry finds itself in a bittersweet moment.
A bad dice roll, a bad decision, or a tough boss could make you lose before your first turn, so we re-framed the phrase "One-Hit Heroes": What if heroes started with 1 HP, but could heal or play armor cards for more health? We'd get the benefits of health pools and keep the title at the same time.Designing armor (and extra health) made the game seem fine enough to play, well enough to maybe ship, so we built the heroes, got art, finished Episodes 1 and 2, and began working on new content. Everyt
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Victory demands control.With faction-specific upgrades and dynamic tension from start to finish, HOOD: Troubles in Sherwood is a rich game of clever plays and brutal choices.The HOOD GF campaign features the usual range of goodies and add-ons, including four (yet to be fully revealed) expansions, with The Pirates Expansion including a fifth faction of...pirates.▪️ Another crowdfunding project from a Polish creative team is The Witcher: Legacy from Łukasz Woźniak, Go On Board, and CD Projekt RED.
No, gentle reader, “PlayMode” is not the phrase I mutter to myself when I’m getting ready to host a game night. Though the name does remind me of this classic bit from the underappreciated Disney film BOLT… PlayMode is a … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/05/playmode-dune-imperium-uprising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>