Coming in at number 5 of my Game Night selections is Pirates Cove. In Pirate’s Cove, you get to play as a pirate. Not a legendary pirate, but a pirate none the less. The point is to become the most infamous pirate of the group. The game takes place in 12 turns and at the [...]
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Here is why Ticket to Ride cracked my top 5. Ticket to Ride is very simple, very easy to learn, yet full of strategy and obstacles on every turn. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. If you have enough cars of the same [...]
Maybe that title is a bit too much. I say this because I’m not 100% sure the gaming industry actually needs saving. It has had its ups downs but, for the most part, it is an insanely popular business that is rapidly growing in both size and financial stability. But while the industry continues to [...]
Hate long reviews? At geekCasual, we do too! This week, we’re doing reviews of Costume Quest, Super Meat Boy and Worms: Reloaded with less than 300 words!
Agricola (Latin for “farmer”) is a complex, complicated, resource management board game. I have it listed as my third favorite. Two things keep it from being number one. The first is the price. Compared to the other games on the list, this one is about twice the cost of the others. Secondly, Agricola is a [...]
Loot is an easy to play, fast paced, quick playing card game. The cards show trading ships or pirate ships. There are also pirates cards and 1 admiral in the deck. Players send a trading ship of value on a voyage in which it must survive a round of attacks from other player’s pirate ships. [...]
So what is Power Grid all about? In a nut shell, the object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone’s network gains a predetermined size. The end game network size (AKA number of cities you purchased) is predetermined by the number of players. I find the game to be [...]
A few months ago the geekCasual staff (plus a few others, occasionally) started having regular “game nights.” Game Night usually starts off with dinner, followed by two – three board games, and finishes with a drunken drive home well after midnight. Okay, so the last part isn’t true (or is it?) – the important part [...]
The room is dark; in the middle I sit, legs crossed and hands folded. My eyes have long since lost focus and instead lie staring off into distant, possibly nonexistent lands. In this position my mind and body prepare, readying for the inevitable. Dusty grey orbs slowly open as a sound, at first quite inaudible, [...]
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