Tabletop review: Legendary Encounters: An Alien deck-building game

The Legendary Encounters: An Alien deck building game was published in 2014 by Upper Deck Entertainment, and reimplemented most of the mechanics from their highly successful game Legendary: A Marvel deck building game. This also made way for further games published under the Legendary Encounter banner (namely Predator and Firefly). As it is an rather

Tabletop review: Attack on Titan: deck-building game

Attack on Titan, the hit franchise from Japan (originally named Shingeki no Kyojin) started as a manga, before becoming an anime series, live-action film, video games and various manga novels and other spin-off products. It has now become a table top game (more precisely a deck-builder game) from the publisher Cryptozoic entertainment. Overview Attack on

500 Internal Server Error…

Been far too long since last post, much thank to a lengthy troubleshoot trying to fix the dreaded 500 Internal server error. The site seems fine for the moment, so it’s maybe time for a very quick update for the various categories;  Chess The World Championship match is done and dusted and Magnus Carslen is

Tabletop review: Age of War

Today we take a look at the small game Age of War. It was  published in 2014 by Fantasy Flight Games and is designed by the well-known Reiner Knizia, one of the most prolific game designers in the world, and Age of War is in many ways is a typical Knizia game. Overview Age of

Tabletop review: Flip City

Flip City (AKA Design Town) is small card game design by Chih-Fan Chen and first published in Taiwan by Homosapiens Lab, the version reviewed here  is the English second edition published by TMG (not long ago I wrote about their Harbour game). Overview Flip City is a simple deck-building game. The theme is built around

Tabletop review: Voyage of the Beagle

Full name of the expansion being Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island – Voyage of the Beagle (VotB), Voyage of the Beagle is a major expansion to the excellent game Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island (currently ranked as high as 21 on the overall list at Boardgamegeek.com). I say major as the

Tabletop review: Harbour

Time for a review, this week we take a look at the microgame Harbour by TMG (Tasty Minstrel Games) and game designer Scott Almes. Almes is the designer behind the 2015 Golden Geek nominee Tiny Epic Galaxies so the publisher and designer know how to create a great game in a small package.  Let us

The review team is revealed

There are plenty of tabletop reviews out there, and many ways to convey what a reviewer thinks about a game, from podcasts to blogs, from vlogs to magazines.  The plan is to make pretty straightforward tabletop reviews a regular feature here at Tabletop Cave, and I’ll try to keep a schedule with at least 1