Reviews

Tesla vs. Edison: Powering Up! is an honest expansion for an economic euro that deserves far more table time. Its handsome production still matters, but the real achievement is a sharper, nastier competitive edge.

In Scoville, my wife flattened the rest of us. My clearest review is that I was looking at lottery tickets afterwards.

A Feast for Odin looks as though it might requisition the whole room, yet it proves remarkably easy to settle into. The expansion keeps that smoothness intact and adds an action board worth having on the table.

Kohle & Kolonie is a tight, heavy euro that won us over even while its rulebook, errata and FAQs pushed us into playing something that was probably not quite the intended game. There is a very good design in there; the rules are simply determined to make you excavate it.

Tin Goose is a light economic game that gives nobody a free ride. It teaches quickly, plays tightly, and makes every rival’s success look like a personal inconvenience.

With every extra rule and expansion in play, Nations became a brisk, unforgiving civilisation race. Viking raids set the table scrambling from round one, and the game still came down to a single point with no dead air.