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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...

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The 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...

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Monopoly: 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...

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Smash 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...

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The 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...

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Quartermaster 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...

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Urban 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...

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Craftsman 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...

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Pokémon 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...

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Star 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...

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Star 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...

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Discworld: 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 –...

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Resident 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...

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Star 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...

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Timeline 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...

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DC 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...

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Angry 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...

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The 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,...

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Monopoly: 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...

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Bop 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!...

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Jenga 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,...

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Angry 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...

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Libertalia 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...

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Trivial 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...

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The 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...

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Angry 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...

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Bop 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...

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Batman: 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...

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Sherlock 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...

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Pokémon 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...

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Dixit 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...

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City 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...

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BioShock 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...

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Takenoko 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...

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Jungle 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...

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Robinson 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...

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Ghost 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...

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Love 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:...

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Kill 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...

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Pokemon 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...

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Game 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...

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Elections 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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