My February Gaming

 While my February gaming wasn’t particularly packed with learning new games, looking back at it, there was a focus on slightly larger micro games. As I have written about in the past, 18 cards is where a micro game has enough design space to flex its muscles.

I learned:

Ham Fisted

This Mars Vacation

Pocket Puffins

Confusing Lands

Roll and Safari

Guards and Goblins (published version)

I also revisited Pentaquark, a game I hadn’t liked that much the first time. It had been long enough since my last play and I had grown enough as a solitaire gamer that it was practically like playing it for the first time. And a better experience this time.

Ham Fisted, Pocket Puffins, Confusing Lands and Guards and Goblins were also games that crossed the line between nano game and micro game. If you are used to huge, table sprawling games, there probably doesn’t feel like much of a difference. And I know that major reason that 18 cards is a format for micro games is because that is one sheet at many professional printers.

Still, I realized that there are a lot more 18 card games that I would pull out to play with other gamers compared to nano games. And every game I learned in February is a game that I can see myself going back to.

The best game I learned was Confusing Lands, which has entered into regular rotation and seems likely to stay there. It is definitely a game that I would recommend.