Fairway’s a lawyer, not a mechanical engineer. But this week, he takes on the machine-building, worker-placement game, Steam Works, by Tasty Minstrel Games and manages not to make any machines explode.
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Resistor_: Review
Resistance is futile. Resistor_ (don’t forget the underscore) is a quick, two-player romp through a 1980’s cyberwar. Players are one of two competing computer systems. Each system tries to annihilate the other by sending colored signals along the game’s ever-changing wired connections. Fairway reviews this Kickstarter-funded game.
Exoplanets: Review
Exoplanets by Board & Dice (and soon to be published by Greater than Games) is a two to four player, solar system building game set around a distant sun. Players place planets in orbits around the sun, collect resources, and attempt to establish life. Fairway reviews this Kickstarter-funded game.
Ion – A Compound Building Game: Review
Fairway reviews a recent Kickstarter delivery from Genius Games: Ion: A Compound Building Game.
Paranormal Investigation by Touch Paper Press
Last year I got into KickStarter and one of the first games I backed was this fun, paranormal spooky game, Paranormal Investigation. Paranormal Investigation is 3-4 player game and lasts about ten minutes. The story of the game is you and the other players are paranormal investigators and you each have your own theory as to what is happening at a mansion. Your goal is to reveal the proof hidden behind the door the supports your claim. Players start with a randomly assigned Investigator card and Affiliation card. From the information on the Investigator card, players will learn what their goal is to win the game. Here is an example of an investigator: The investigator card will also tell you which doors you can take a peek at before beginning the game. The Affiliation card will tell you what your special abilities are during the game. Each player begins with…