My family somehow got a copy of the game Risky Strategy prior to the 1992 election. It is a role and move game where players worked to gain electoral votes from different states. Although the game was no fun, it taught me about how the electoral system worked and why California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are…

While the map is beautiful, Ira is right. It's a fantastic game in its own right that has a beautiful blend of area control, blind auction, and take that wrapped into a smooth thematic whole. It is relatively rules light but maintains a great decision space.

I played through Kentucky Route Zero Act IV last night and loved it. I liked how Cardboard Computer made touch a theme that played out in different little ways throughout while still matching it to the overarching theme. Another beautiful, dreamy segment. Has anyone else played this? Thoughts? I may have missed it,…

Exactly - who wants to eat pasties? We'll have to let Bangkok outbreak instead.

That makes me even more excited.

That is the thought - we want to honor the places that we failed to protect as CDC professionals. And what better way than enjoying their cuisine!

Getting ready for a late January playthrough of Pandemic Legacy on Saturday with tamales and margaritas on the menu to honor Mexico City, our first city with an outbreak. We're still very early into the game and hope to have more success after a rough early January experience.

I almost mentioned A Study in Emerald too. Do you have the first or second edition? The first edition was my grail game when I missed the initial Kickstarter but I managed a copy on the second hand market. I've never tried the scaled down second edition but am still very curious.

I assumed the cthulu mythos was so popular in more recent board and video games because it is in the public domain. So you get lots of games (and I'll draw mostly from board games) that get re-skinned because it is free and has a following. That's how you get Cthulu Realms (rather than Star Realms) and Pandemic: Reign…

Every place in Fez that has writing but no puzzles. So much history in that game.

I was pretty ok with it. I tend to stick with things even if they don't wow from the start. I've been playing it for the story and visuals mostly. So I wasn't terrible concerned that I stumbled through the first few rounds of combat. I'm guessing it'll have a new game plus and that will be fun to see what I missed the…

I dug into Transistor this week and have really been enjoying it. It took me a bit of time to get into a combat groove and now that I am, I'm enjoying tinkering with the different primary, secondary, and passive effects of weapons.

Our first game was going super duper well and then we realized when the first Legacy card said STOP you were supposed to read to the bottom of the card. I hadn't, so the mutating virus didn't show up. So we replayed the first game (yellow went incurable) and we lost when a chain of outbreaks went nuts. So we have our…

Kicking off a campaign of Pandeimc: Legacy Season 1 tonight. I've avoided all spoilers so far. The hope is to play every two weeks. We'll see how it goes.

I've been loving TIME Stories. I hope to play Under the Mask in the next week.

Replace Battlestar Gallactica with Dark Moon (which was originally BSG Express). You won't regret it!

I like euros, typically ones with a clever auction mechanic or tile laying (read: lots of classic Knizia). Also, anything by Vlaada. Games that typically fall into 1-2.5 hour range. Still, like cooperative games too. Mostly stay away from war games and pure economic games like 18xx.

Fury of Dracula, Scotland Yard, Nuns on the Run, Lupin the III, others as well?

Thanks for the response. I find it interesting to see how certain trends or themes show up in people's habits.

Thanks for the write up, Samantha. I feel like you brought forward games that weren't on my radar from other places.