September ended up being my heaviest gaming month of the year so far and probably will be for the year on a whole. That’s because I went to a convention as a reunion with a bunch of old gaming friends.
I learned:
Paper Pinball - Mall Bats
The Walking Dead - Surrounded
Food Truck Madness (Alexander Shen)
Scout
Portal Heroes
Last Light
Cursed Court
Spicy
Biscuits and Battles
Hadara
Cat Ass Trophy
Point Salad
Dinks and Donkeys (playtest)
Last Light was the heaviest game I’ve learned in a while. In a past life, I’m not sure if it would have qualified as heavy, just toyetic. (A word I just learned existed, thanks to reading an article about the development of the Paw Patrol franchise lol) With that said, I was glad that I was able to follow along and enjoy myself.
I also really enjoyed Hadara. It doesn’t quite cross the line into being a Civ-light game but it is the kind of game that got me into board gaming. Enjoyable choices and a tempo that keeps the game going.
While it wasn’t a new game to me, Knizia’s Medici was the hero of our table. I played it more in one weekend than I ever had before. It is such a ridiculously pure auction game. I still like Ra more but Medici earns its reputation as a classic.
And I also learned some solitaire games as usual. The Walking Dead - Surrounded is a nice little tile laying game that gets a lot of its value through its advanced play.
Yeah, it was a good month.
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