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Designer Diary: Asteria

The ability to make interesting decisions in an ever-expanding game of strategy using minimal components without sacrificing any of the fun or depth, while also delivering a game with great table presence, was the challenge I wanted to try.My name is Augusto Correia Rocha, and I am the designer of Asteria, a Brazilian game developed by Glyptodon Studio and published in Brazil by MeepleBR.OriginsI started the project in 2017, making my own prototype to present to friends and local board game conv

Dale Yu: Review of In a Nut Shell

In a Nut Shell Designer: not listed Publisher: Confident Games Players: 2-20 Age: 8+ Time: 20 minutes Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4a9fdtr Played with review copy provided by publisher Cracking board game for game nights with family and friends WHICH … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/14/dale-yu-review-of-in-a-nut-shell/">Continue reading →</a>

Dale Yu: Review of Evidence: Hush Money

Evidence: Hush Money Designer: Elliott Humphries, James Smith Publisher: Professor Puzzle Games Players: 1-4 Age: 14+ Time: 90 mins Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4pzLUFe Played with review copy provided by publisher An unidentified body is discovered in a dark Chicago alley. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/13/dale-yu-review-of-evidence-hush-money/">Continue reading →</a>

Bomb Captain Flip, Shatter Leviathan Wilds, Proliferate Confluences, and Shimmer in Heat

Maybe you'd interpret them differently.If you're not familiar with Captain Flip, here's my 2023 overview.▪️ Cryptozoic Entertainment has released DC Deck-Building Game: Peacemaker Pack, a small expansion for that large game line that consists of two hero cards (Peacemaker and Vigilante), nemesis versions of these characters, two starter cards for use with DC Deck-Building Game: Arkham Asylum, and rules.▪️ Moon Crab Games launched in 2024 with Justin Kemppainen's giant-climbing game Leviathan Wil

Dale Yu: Review of Hits & Outs

Hits & Outs Designer: Ron Halliday Publisher: itten Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 15 minutes Played with review copy provided by publisher Hits & Outs (ヒット＆アウト) is inspired by the strategic battle of wits between the pitcher and the batter. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/12/dale-yu-review-of-hits-outs/">Continue reading →</a>

Designer Diary: Soothsayers

The box cover bringing together a group of the major arcana characters is particularly striking.Published versions of Soothsayers' cardsMy Hopes for SoothsayersMy journey with Soothsayers began with a fascination for the iconic illustrations of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, and the design process allowed me to much more deeply explore that connection.I'm thrilled to have designed a game that not only honors the historical roots of tarot as playing cards but also delivers a rich, strategic experien

Could playing cards hold 'The Missing Piece' to solve local cold cases?

One of the cards details the 2007 murders of a mother and daughter, Nancy and Joey Bochicchio, after a day of shopping at The Town Center at Boca Raton.

Crime Stoppers turns cold cases into playing cards to spark new leads in Palm Beach County

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County is taking a creative new approach to solving cold cases, turning them into a deck of ...

Josiah’s Monthly Board Game Round-Up – November 2025

November 2025 Games I played for the first time this month, from worst to best, along with my ratings and comments. Skyjo – 5/10 Skyjo is a very light card game, roughly the weight of other card games you might … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/11/josiahs-monthly-board-game-round-up-november-2025/">Continue reading →</a>

Control The Great Sea, and Defend the Towers of Sifnos with Garphill Games

Eric Martin ▪️ New Zealand publisher Garphill Games has already crowdfunded one 2026 release — Secret Societies, a S J Macdonald design in which 2-5 players view for control of territories on Earth — but that's only the start of its 2026 plans.In March/April 2026, Garphill will crowdfund MacDonald and Zach Smith's The Great Sea, a game for 2-4 players that is part of the publisher's "Ancient Anthology" series. Here's an overview:From their homeland in the Levant to the distant shores of Carthage

Dale Yu: Review of Pyradice

Pyradice Designer: Andre Silva Publisher: mebo Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 30 minutes Amazon affiliate link: Played with review copy provided by publisher (mebo) In Pyradice you are part of an ancient civilization whose main goal is to build pyramids. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/10/dale-yu-review-of-pyradice/">Continue reading →</a>

Vietnam — The Next Great Board Game Market

As new genres arrive and local creators experiment, those long-standing habits are beginning to shift, sometimes gradually, sometimes with resistance.This brings us to the cultural heartbeat of Vietnam's gaming story: how the country's play culture itself is evolving.The Slow Shifting Board Game CultureVietnam's board game story isn't just about new publishers or cafés; it's also about a community negotiating what kind of play it wants to build.For decades, traditional games like Cờ Cá Ngựa (hor

Talia Rosen: Thanksgiving Game Battle Royale

Six games enter. Only one game wins. I brought six games to Thanksgiving this year to play with my ten-year-old child, my partner, and my seventy-year-old parents. Over the course of a few days, they learned and played each game. … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/09/talia-rosen-thanksgiving-game-battle-royale/">Continue reading →</a>

Asmodee's January 2026 Releases: Dune: War for Arrakis – Desert War, Dixit: Kids, Borealis, and More

Players have a hand of cards, and on most turns they'll play an animal card into one of three columns on the board — but to play an animal card, you must have the appropriately colored scientists in that column, then move each of them in the direction (left or right) indicated on the card.If the vehicle on the card is on the next exploration space in that column, you move the flag down to that space, and the farther you drop the flag, the more points you'll score at game's end.If you move a scie

Dale Yu: Review of Garden

Garden Designer: Andy Hopwood Publisher: Taiwan Boardgame Design Players: 2 Age: 8+ Time: 15 min Played with review copy provided by publisher Imagine noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) but with the need to think several moves ahead and with each piece … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/09/dale-yu-review-of-garden/">Continue reading →</a>

Designer Diary: Wedding Seating Chart

I know it had rough corners since the development was rushed, so I decided to revisit the design in a community of more experienced players, focusing mostly on streamlining the experience, making the game language-independent, and improving the UI.In the meantime, I gave away a few copies of the game to Polish publishers at Planszówki w Spodku 2023, but while two publishers were initially interested, after a few months I had no concrete decisions from them.In 2024, I entered the game in a two-pl

Discover a Blue Moon in Discworld, and Join the Fourth Wing

Notes the publisher: "[T]he game has been carefully reskinned with Discworld theming and features brand-new added expansion content."A Discworld card game, Kill Sam Vimes, will be released in Q3 2026, with publisher promising that the design "drops your unlucky assassins into a contract to kill the titular character, as they try not to fall foul of deadly (and hilarious) traps and tricks imagined by the Duke of Ankh."In mid-2025, Modiphius crowdfunded Terry Pratchett's Discworld RPG: Adventures

Larry Levy – Review of Baseball Card GM

Designers: Matthew and Garrett Weaver Publisher: Weaver Media Group, LLC Players: 1-2 Age: 7+ Duration: 30-45 minutes Price: $35 Over the years, the Opinionated Gamers website has made enough of an impression on our hobby that quite a few publishers … <a href="https://opinionatedgamers.com/2025/12/08/larry-levy-review-of-baseball-card-gm/">Continue reading →</a>

Unsolved playing cards: 5,000 decks aim to crack Palm Beach County's toughest mysteries

Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County, is set to roll out a unique deck of Unsolved Playing Cards aimed at generating new leads ...

“Dharmendra loved playing cards, but hardly ever won," reveals Aruna Irani

As India celebrates the 90th birth anniversary of Dharmendra, the Bollywood industry finds itself in a bittersweet moment.

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