Imagine a game where you take the insanity from a swath of anime and pile it into a fast-paced competitive card game. That’s Galatune and the equivalent exchange is the sweet tears of your gaming group. Galatune is deceptively simple, but beneath the surface is a friendship-destroying game of take that, backstabbing, and table politics.
Players take turns drafting dice from the mountain to build their hoard. They can even use magic to reroll them, ideally into something better. The six different playable characters add an additional variable to the mix. Dice Miner also has a distinct solo mode that plays differently from the main game if you feel the urge to grab a pick axe on your own.
Robinson Crusoe is a survival-themed game about staying alive on a tropical island as shipwrecked survivors. I’m a big fan of survival video games, so it stands to reason that I’d also enjoy a survival board game, and as it turns out, I do.
To my great shame, I slept on Gloomhaven for the longest time. I had seen people call it DnD or Pathfinder without a GM, and that meant I had no interest in it. I already play Pathfinder, I don’t need a cut-down board game version. After playing Jaws of The Lion, I would like to find all these people and club them with a 600-page core rulebook for being wrong and leading me astray.