#tableau-building tag

Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.

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5 months ago

Roll for the Galaxy Review

Roll for the Galaxy is a 2014 dice-based tableau and engine-building game featuring simultaneous hidden dice action selection, tableau development, and dice mitigation options.

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5 months ago

Creature Caravan Review

Creature Caravan is a medium-weight simultaneous-action board game for 1-4 players combining dice-action selection, tableau-building, trading, travel, and combat against zombies for points.

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6 months ago

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Besties Bake Off Review

Some IPs never truly die. They rise from the grave again and again, the result of near necromantic product research and nostalgia cycles. The undisputed undead queen of the comeback is Strawberry Shortcake, wouldn't you know? Asking someone to sing her theme song is a litmus test for how old they are-since first appearing on greeting cards in the early 70's, she's been revived so many times that whole generations have different memories of Straw-ba-ba-ba-ba-berry.

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