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CANVAS: A Game so Beautiful You Could (Literally) Hang it on Your Shelf

Welcome, folks, to the visual feast of CANVAS by Road to Infamy Games, also known as R2i Games. It was designed by Jeff Chin and Andrew Nerger but first and foremost I have to get the required comment out...

To Sheep, Perchance to Dream: A Turn Order Review of Sheepy Time

Longtime readers of Turn Order may remember a review of a push your luck (PYL) game that I absolutely loved, Long Shot, that involved racing horses around a track and causing complete chaos at the table. Since then, I’ve...

War In the Pocket: A Turn Order Review of Buttonshy Game’s Battlecrest

  As board gaming enters what seems like a decline on the golden years of huge mega releases, I find myself turning more and more to things I can actually get to the table and also enjoy playing. In a...

Blaseball: Wild Cards – Taking Back Sportsball – Turn Order

There are two types of reviews one can write for the Blaseball: Wild Cards tactical card game (released by Wayfinder Games and co-designed by Rain Watt & Michael Fox). One is for those familiar with Blaseball, the free, low-fi, online...

Gaming In the Dark…With Kids! A Shadows in the Forest Review

Playing tabletop games in the dark is usually pretty difficult. It's one of the sacrifices we make for the joy of analog gaming. However, thanks to the inclusion of a tiny little lantern, Shadows in the Dark uses light as...

Chills and Frights Await in Don’t Go In There! – Turn Order

Halloween is my favorite holiday. As a theater geek at heart, I love dressing up, decorating my set­—uh, my yard, that is. With lights and fog I’ve made a new world, if only for a short time. Halloween parties...

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City: The Goonhammer Review

One of the most hotly anticipated Games Workshop products of the year so far is finally here! Warhammer Quest: Cursed City brings 1 to 4 players through the streets of Ulfenkarm to dispatch the undead denizens within. With luck,...

No Gods, No Minions. Fight for Glory in Kleos – Turn Order

Kleos is a welterweight area control game set in the era of Greek myths. This is a genre flush with so many titles that it has its own pantheon of great classics. Blood Rage, Cyclades, Small World and so many...

Interview with Elli Amir, designer of Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate – Turn Order

Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate is a new 1-2 player tactical card game by Elli Amir. (You can read our review of the game here.) Adopting recognizable language, syntax, and grammar from popular collectible card games (CCG’s)—most notably Magic:...

Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate review – Turn Order

In the universe of skirmish-based card games, Magic: The Gathering (MtG) is the big bang; virtually all other collectible and non-collectible card games (CCG’s) released in the thirty years since have Magic stardust in their DNA. That's because MtG...