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17/07/2022

This week’s video is about an upcoming deck building game with an 8-bit art style.

Final Strike is an upcoming “deck forging” card game with an 8-bit art style. Magesmiths forge increasingly powerful weapons to earn glory by damaging and de...

24/05/2022

Santa’s Little Elves is a Christmas-themed bluffing game about disgruntled elves stealing toys from Santa’s workshop!

Santa’s Little Elves is an upcoming holiday-themed bluffing game about disgruntled elves stealing toys from Santa’s Workshop!You can find more information he...

26/04/2022

Unmatched is a miniatures battling game with extremely asymmetric player abilities! Hell’s Kitchen and Redemption Row add Marvel heroes to the game, and they...

20/04/2022

Daimyo Senso is a Risk-like area control game set in 16th century Japan.

AND Brains on Games is 2 years old!

For the second anniversary of Brains on Games, I’ll take a look at Daimyo Senso, a Risk-like area control game set in 16th century Japan. There’s no randomne...

05/04/2022

There are lots of ways to play this dexterity game, but mostly it’s about shooting your discs to the opponent’s side of the board, creating paths that make shots easier for both players!

Pathways is an upcoming dexterity game - players flick discs across a board, filling holes to make paths that make shots easier for both players! There are a...

22/03/2022

Loq is an upcoming word game that is quite possibly my favourite word game of all time.

Loq is a word game for two to twenty players. Each round has a fun special rule to dictate how clues or guesses work!00:00 Intro00:33 Play Count & Complexity...

14/03/2022

Painters compete to create the best abstract painting.

Abstract Academy is a beautiful grid-building card game about creating an abstract painting to score the most points! Have a favourite artist or art style an...

07/03/2022

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is a standalone card game based on Terraforming Mars. It’s focused on engine building and phase selection, with simultaneous turns that allow a game to be played about twice as fast as the original.

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is a standalone, card game version of Terraforming Mars. It’s a focused engine building, phase selection game that plays i...

28/02/2022

Camouflage is an upcoming game where players race to add their pieces to an ever-growing puzzle!

https://youtu.be/OisPibnRMy8

Camouflage is an upcoming game where players race to add pieces to an ever-growing puzzle!00:00 Intro00:30 Play Count & Complexity01:29 Gameplay & Victory Co...

24/02/2022

Tiger Stripes The Card Game is a set collecting game where players are baby tigers earning their stripes. It’s a straightforward intro to set collection and drafting mechanics for kids as young as 7, but the older players I tried it with enjoyed it too!

https://youtu.be/CkQ3ejSgZAE

Tiger Stripes The Card Game is a set collecting game for kids as young as seven that adults can enjoy too! Players are tiger cubs who earn their stripes by s...

21/02/2022

Crokinole is one of my favourite games of all time. It’s an easy, fun dexterity game that’s like a combination of curling and shuffleboard. We’ve played hundreds of times and it’s never boring. Even non-gamers will give it a try!

Biñho is a newer dexterity game that’s similar to Crokinole, but the turf field and walls create a different experience. It’s another game that almost anyone can pick up and try!

https://youtu.be/XZgnt8gZn5w

TWO flicking games in this episode: Crokinole, the oldest Canadian game I know, and Biñho, a modern flicking game with a soccer theme! The Biñho board is muc...

14/02/2022

In Underleague, players bet on monster fights. The first rule of monster fight club? It’s ok to talk about monster fight club.

https://youtu.be/CG4a4Z7x4-E

Underleague is a card game about betting on underground monster fights. Players bet on creatures, monsters challenge one another, and winning bets net player...

07/02/2022

Floating Floors is an upcoming strategic game about balancing ninjas. It’s a dexterity game where spatial planning and resource management are even more important than having a steady hand!

Floating Floors is a strategic dexterity game about ninjas! Players balance floors and carefully move ninjas across them in a race to collect their bansen se...

03/02/2022

Multi (from Joyful Mathematics) is a two-player multiplication game. Players try to win 3 tic-tac-toe boards in a row, by placing their X’s or O’s using a factor board.

https://youtu.be/NzwrurWZH6c

Multi is a multiplication board game for two players. The board is made up of 9 to-tac-toe grids. Players try to win three grids in a row to win the game, by...

31/01/2022

Dinamine is an upcoming tile-laying game for kids as young as 8! Players draft tunnels to add to their mines and earn bonuses for tile choice and placement.0...

24/01/2022

Dragons Vs. Ogres is an upcoming 2 player card game - players choose either the dragon or the ogre deck and try to capture the most villagers. It’s like War, except players choose a card from their hand of 5. AND they only capture if they race the other player and play their card first!

https://youtu.be/6OGq7b7EWzM

Dragons Vs Ogres is an upcoming two-player card game about capturing the most villagers. It’s similar to War, but players choose the cards they want to use a...

17/01/2022

Trekking the World is a set-collecting game about travelling to landmarks and gathering souvenirs. It’s accessible to kids as young as 10, with great artwork and lots of information about each location the players can visit. It plays in an hour or less, and we think it’s better at higher play counts.

https://youtu.be/vXioHlwFCm4

Trekking the World is a family-weight set-collecting game for up to 5 players. Trekkers travel to famous landmarks to tour and collect souvenirs, and each lo...

10/01/2022

Telestrations: Upside Drawn is a ridiculous party game. Instead of drawing a picture for teams to guess, “guides” move the drawing boards under the artist’s marker as they race to draw clues.

https://youtu.be/TN4rDVN08wI

Telestrations: Upside Drawn is a drawing and guessing party game. Instead of an artist drawing a picture for teammates to guess, the artist holds the marker ...