One advantage that board gaming has over other types of mediums is its tactile nature. The ability to hold the game pieces in your hands and move them around a play space. Some games lean more or less into this aspect, but Drop Drive goes all in on it.
Dungeon Draft is a quick and easy card game about hiring heroes, buying weapons, and defeating monsters to earn the most experience by the end of the game. As the game’s title implies, you spend each round drafting cards. However, the act of playing those cards gives Dungeon Draft a dash of engine building and combo play to complement its card drafting ensemble.
Scythe is an area control game with a focus on Cold War. Expeditions is very much a combo game in the vein of deck and tableau builders. That’s not a bad thing exactly, the world already has Scythe after all. But if you loved Scythe, you won’t necessarily enjoy Expeditions and vice versa. It’s honestly best to look at them as entirely separate games, despite using the same 1920s dieselpunk aesthetic.
Dune Imperium: Uprising is an oddly difficult concept to explain. It’s a completely standalone game which firmly places it outside the expansion zone. At the same time, it’s not quite a sequel either as it’s still fundamentally the same game as Dune Imperium.