Game: Hellas Date: October 12, 2026 Impression: A worker placement game where you are mining marble to build up cities and monuments. Each time you mine though how good the mines are changes. Lots of opportunity for interaction and conflict without it being mean. I played two and very interested to see what it's like with more players.

Game: Swing and Roll Date: October 12, 2026 Impression: A very simple baseball card game, you each take turns batting and pitching. The batter trying to match their card to where the pitcher throws. You then each roll a d6 and consult a table to see the result. I'm not sure how much strategy decision making there is but it was a fun 15 minute game with a really tight production.

Game: Eclipse Date: September 22, 2026 Impression: Basically Twilight Imperium lite, a 4x on a hexagon space map with lots of ship battles. It strips out a lot of TIs complexity and adds in some new improvements. Dice chucking is actually a bigger part then I expected. You build the map during play which I really enjoyed and tech upgrade availability is random and limited. Scoring is more point salad style which made it harder to know who is winning and what the right thing to focus on is. Overall I did enjoy it and would play again, not a TI killer for me but definitely up there.

Game: Eternal Decks Date: September 22, 2026 Impression: A coop game were you play cards collectively in a certain order to unlock more cards. You need to prevent anyone of you running out of cards. You win when you complete certain combos or rows of cards. Co-ops are not my thing and this didn't change my mind on that, as beautiful as the artwork is.

Game: Wondrous Creatures Date: September 22, 2026 Impression: A resource gathering, card driven game where you are trying to meet various set collection goals, sort of like Teraforming Mars. Had nice variety of puzzle to it though dominated by the cards as in our game a player was able to pull of crazy combos and double the second place score. I'd try it again and see if it was a fluke.