Pokémon Trading Card Game: XY-Furious Fists Expansion Review
It has been 14 years since I last played The Pokémon Trading Card Game. The second wave was just coming out, and all I had was a deck assembled from the original 151. Ah, memories.It was not without a...
View ArticleThe Resistance Review
The Resistance is a social deduction game that pitches you against your friends as you attempt to overthrow a corrupt government. You take of the role of the titular Resistance, performing missions to...
View ArticleMonopoly: Street Fighter Collector’s Edition Review
There’s only so much you can say about a special edition of Monopoly. Unlike some modern versions of the classic property trading game, the Street Fighter Collector’s Edition doesn’t come with an...
View ArticleSmash Up Review
“The shuffle-building game of total awesomeness!” Smash Up’s box cheerfully yells at you. It tells you everything you need to know about what Smash Up wants to be. It throws aliens, robots and...
View ArticleThe Big Bang Theory Party Game Review
Have you ever turned on E4? If you have, no doubt you’ll be aware of the cultural phenomenon that is The Big Bang Theory – a show about four “nerds” and the adorable airhead who lives across the hall...
View ArticleQuartermaster General – Board Game Review
Quartermaster General charges full steam ahead into an already packed genre, aiming to conquer its own space within the crowd. Let us be clear, the subject of war as far as board games go could have...
View ArticleUrban Panic Board Game Review
Krzysztof Matusik is a game designer who dreams big. In his game, Urban Panic, you are a city developer, looking to design the perfect metropolis for your residents, while taking into account certain...
View ArticleCraftsman Boardgame Review
Craftsman is a large step up from the family-friendly fun to be found in Urban Panic. It’s almost like Krzysztof, towards the end of a party, sent the kids to bed, reached into the cupboard, placed...
View ArticlePokémon TCG – XY Ancient Origins Review
The last time that I reviewed the Pokémon TCG – for the XY Furious Fists expansion – I had to re-learn a game I had first played a decade and a half before. As such, all the nuances, all the little...
View ArticleStar Wars Armada Miniatures Board Game Review
Fantasy Flight Games had to do a lot of persuading to convince me to try its latest “flagship” game. Puns aside, there were several large factors that made me hesitant to even step into a room with the...
View ArticleStar Trek: Catan Review
Game: Star Trek: Catan Designer: Klaus Teuber Publisher: Mayfair Games I have a confession to make. Despite having moved in the more nerdy circles for the majority of my life, I have never sat down and...
View ArticleDiscworld: Ankh-Morpork Review
Game: Discworld: Ankh-Morpork Designer: Martin Wallace Publisher: Treefrog Games “Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course – it was not round and shiny –...
View ArticleResident Evil Deck-Building Game: Mercenaries Review
Game: Resident Evil Deck-Building Game: Mercenaries Designer: Tylar Allinder Publisher: Capcom/Bandai Board games, of any description, have always been close to my heart. I grew up playing them with...
View ArticleStar Wars: The Card Game Review
Game: Star Wars: The Card Game Designer: Eric M Lang Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Available on: Any table, preferably one not covered in grease and/or Cheeto dust (unless you fancy investing in some...
View ArticleTimeline Board Game Review
Game: Timeline Manufactured by: Asmodee Published by: Esdevium Games Players: 1 – 8 Price: £12.99 More often than not, trivia games are their own worst enemy, especially when played with people who...
View ArticleDC Comics Deck-Building Game Review
Anyone that knows me knows that I have a profound love of anything related to comic books and the characters that call the funny little tomes their home. So it’s no surprise that when the opportunity...
View ArticleAngry Birds Star Wars – Death Star Jenga Review
When it comes to games, whether that’s of the board game or video game variety, you’re bound to get a couple of strange crossovers. Some of them are stranger than others though and if the Angry Birds...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: The Board Game Review
If there’s one thing that’s popular right now, it’s zombies. Whether that’s in comics books, TV or films, you can’t get away from the flesh-eating undead. In recent years that fact has been thanks,...
View ArticleMonopoly: Electronic Banking Board Game Review
Monopoly has been around, in one shape or another, for over a century, so it’s probably a safe bet that every single person reading this review has played a game or two at some point. The rules are...
View ArticleBop It! XT Review
If you were anything like me when you were growing up, then you had a tendency to ask for anything that made loud noises for your birthday and/or Christmas. For me, one of these things were the Bop It!...
View ArticleJenga Boom Review
I expect that most people will be aware of at least the basic rules or the original Jenga, the wooden tower game that tasks players with removing the blocks one at a time until the tower falls over,...
View ArticleAngry Birds: Star Wars – Millennium Falcon Bounce Game Review
The Angry Birds license has become something of a beast. Not only are there multiple incarnations of the original video game, but there are multiple different physical board games with the name...
View ArticleLibertalia Review
Wanna be a pirate? Damn right you do. Libertalia’s glorious box art goes a long way towards setting the thematic scene for the game: a collection of some of the most piratey pirates imaginable, centred...
View ArticleTrivial Pursuit: Master Edition Review
Trivial Pursuit is a game that graces the shelf of many a family, finding its way onto the coffee table whenever one family member thinks they’re smarter than everyone else. It always had a place in...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Card Game Review
I think it’s safe to say that The Walking Dead is one of the hottest properties in the world right now. We’ve got video games (some good, some bad), comics, TV shows, board games, and now, thanks to...
View ArticleAngry Birds: Star Wars – Jenga Hoth Review
If you’re a kid – or at least a big kid – then there’s nothing more satisfying than flinging small objects across the room in order to hit other objects and send them flying in a million different...
View ArticleBop It! Smash! Review
Bop It! made a name for itself as being that one toy that parents never wanted their kids to have, purely because of the noise it makes while it’s being played (or perhaps that’s just personal...
View ArticleBatman: Arkham City – Escape Review
For me, there’s not much better than sitting down on a Saturday night, putting some music on, opening a few beers and playing board games with my wife. There’s something about the fact that it doesn’t...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Review
We recently looked at Batman: Arkham City – Escape here at GodisaGeek.com, and while the World’s Greatest Detective is still nothing to be sniffed at, he’s still a fair way away from the excellence of...
View ArticlePokémon Trading Card Game: Black & White – Plasma Blast Review
If you grew up around the explosion of Pokémon in the mid to late nineties, then there’s a good chance that you’ve at least come into contact with the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Kids would trade the...
View ArticleDixit Review
Most board games on the market, and most of the ones that we’ve covered here at GodisaGeek, are won by a single player utilising a skill that the other players don’t have. Perhaps they’re won by a...
View ArticleCity of Remnants Review
Imagine you’ve been taken from your home and dumped on a planet full of refugees from other locations. The people that have taken you are keeping you under their iron boots through fear and a nice high...
View ArticleBioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia Review
BioShock Infinite is well known as a single-player game – the developers even made the choice of removing an already partially-developed multiplayer aspect in order to concentrate completely on the...
View ArticleTakenoko Review
You’re a member of the Japanese Imperial Court, charged with looking after a Panda gifted to the Emperor by China. To do this, you must lay farm plots, irrigate them and grow several different kinds of...
View ArticleJungle Speed Safari Review
As you’d expect from a kids game, Jungle Speed Safari is not a complex undertaking. 42 cards are split evenly between players and placed face down in a deck in front of them with five totems placed in...
View ArticleRobinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island Review
I was struggling to describe co-op survival game Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island. To go through all of the features would take more words than I have here, and make for a dull review in...
View ArticleGhost Stories Review
Ghost Stories is a cooperative board game that sees you and up to three friends attempting to save a village from the reincarnation of the evil Wu-Feng and his army of the undead. Set-up requires each...
View ArticleLove Letter Kanai Factory Limited Edition Review
Once upon a time there was a little card game called Love Letter. It wasn’t the prettiest card game in all the land, but it had the kind of comely beauty that comes with a middling price range:...
View ArticleKill the Overlord Review
Kill the Overlord is a fast paced card game that borrows heavily from the likes of Hot Potato and Pass the Bomb, but one that adds enough fresh ideas to make things interesting. The premise is that an...
View ArticlePokemon XY BREAKpoint TCG Expansion Review
It is strange to think that the Pokémon franchise is twenty years old. And while many of us look back on the fond memories of the various games, merchandise and cartoon tie-ins that we are likely to...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: The Trivia Game Review - Throne of Games
Being a massive Game of Thrones fan, having read the original novels and watched every episode of HBO’s series more than once, I went into the Trivia Game from Fantasy Flight expecting it to be pretty...
View ArticleElections of US America Election – The Card Game Review - SEO is King
Back in February 2016, Auroch Digital and Wonkette successfully funded their Kickstarter of their US Presidential Election themed card game, Elections of US America Election – The Card Game. So now...
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