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We love games! We started our company because we care about the games that we play. This time we decided to take a look at the best 10 games that we played for the first time in 2024.     Santa Maria - review Publisher: Aporta Games Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 45-90 minutes Mechanisms: Dice Rolling, Network and Route Building, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Solitaire Game Timing is the king in this game and every decision you make is a well-balanced decision of “will the profits outweigh the risk?”.   The Lord of the Rings...

TOP 10 - 57,5x89mm Chronicles of Crime Publisher: Lucky Duck Games Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 60-90 minutes Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Deduction, Storytelling Sleeves: MEU 45x68mm, STN 57,5x89mm A detective game done in a good way. The scanning with the phone is fun and fast (better than searching a thick book with a reference or printing out a deck of cards for each scenario).   Arkham Horror (3rd Ed.) Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Players: 1-6 Playing Time: 120-180 minutes Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Modular Board, Dice Rolling Sleeves: MUS 41x63mm, STN 57,5x89mm, OSDE 102x128mm I'm a fan of scenario games that tell...

Santa Maria Designer: Kristian Amundsen Otsby, Eilif SvenssonArtist: Gjermund BohnePublished: 2017 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 45-90 Mins BGG Rating: 7.5 BGG Ranking: 474Publisher: Aporta GamesMechanisms: Dice Rolling, Network and Route Building, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers Game Description: Santa Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity Eurogame in which each player establishes and develops a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting and strategic engine building. The game is low on luck and has no direct destructive player conflict.   Quick play overview: Players will mostly use dice from the common pool (and a smaller private...

Clans of Caledonia Designer: Juma Al-JouJou Artist: Klemens Franz Published: 2017 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 30-120 Mins BGG Rating: 7.9 BGG Ranking: 65 Publisher: Karma Games Mechanisms: Commodity Speculation, Contracts, Network and Route Building, Variable Player Powers   Game Description: Clans of Caledonia is a mid-to-heavy economic game set in 19th-century Scotland. At this time, Scotland made the transition from an agricultural to an industrialized country that heavily relied on trade and export. In the following years, food production increased significantly to feed the population growth. Linen was increasingly substituted by the cheaper cotton and raising sheep was given high...

Continuing the quick reviews of 9 games per month series. These will be smaller or children games that don't need a big review or games that I only played once and I cannot give a final review yet, but I would still like to share my initial thoughts on.   Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea Published: 2019 Players: 1-5 Playing Time: 45-120 Mins Publisher: Studio HMechanisms: Contracts, Turn Order: Claim Action, Worker PlacementSleeves: 56x87mm Gameplay & Replayability: 9/10 This game is tight. Every action is important. Every chai gives you a massive boost… when to spend it?? One of...