Headlines from a Solo Player

If you can look beyond how abstract things feel in this medium-light offering, there is a particularly good game to be enjoyed – especially for fans of rondels, dual use cards and strategic goal chasing. Celtae Designer: Orlando Sá Publisher: Pythagoras 2023 How to Play: Grab a player board, choose a ‘Leader’ for your clan of Celtae (offering a tiny bit of strategic focus for the game ahead and some possible endgame VP), take a green ‘farmer’, a yellow ‘builder’ and a red ‘so

A fresh new lick of '2nd Edition' paint, the introduction of an official solo mode - but a game that is otherwise largely unchanged from...

Sometimes all I want is a warm, comforting, familiar, medium weight Euro. With Elephants. Big Elephants. Big, colourful Elephants....

Part review. Part comparison. Part cake analogy.

Almost essential and other than a couple of grumbles about the production, completely superb. Great Western Trail: Rails to the North...

Less of a review and more a confession: I didn’t play this one nearly enough to warrant calling it a ‘review’ as I realised quite quickly...

It’s GWT as you know it Jim, but with ships that periodically set sail, cities that your cattle will move around in, grain to feed your...

Sometimes a game comes along that feels like it was made specifically just for you - ticking all of your mid-heavy Euro boxes and...

Inner monologue: “Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it”. My actual voice: “This packs quite a lot of crunch into such a...

Contrasting opinions on the multiplayer and solo games which feel very different to one another but a splendid campaign comes along to...