One Player Two Cats

2020-05-18

What to Do With a Good Game That Looks Awful

Some games just don’t hit the table because I don’t want to have to look at them, and some rule-sets are both brilliant and too obviously thematically open-ended to have to suffer from cartoony goofiness.

2020-04-03

D-Day Dice Pocket – Dicier Than the Original

D-Day Dice Pocket comes in a small box that advertises “two complete and epic games [with] basic and advanced rules.” It also includes rules to use it as an expansion for the newly released D-Day Dice : Second Edition, a game that me and the cats are enjoying quite a lot. We’ve had a look.

2020-03-26

Sierra West and Hastings’ Shortcut to Solo Play

Sierra West is an innovative, ambitious game that tries to do many things at once. It comes with an abstracted, card-driven opponent for solitaire play. Me and the cats have had a look.

2020-03-17

Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc.

Wary but curious and with tempered expectations, I’ve played through the three parts of Monochrome Inc., a point-and-click adventure of industrial espionage in board game format. I bought the game hoping that it might deliver what I had vainly hoped to find in the utterly disappointing escape room games. Actually, it did deliver just that.

2020-02-03

Crystallo

In 2018, Liberty Kifer made a grand slam in the Solitaire Print and Play Contest with her first design, the abstract card game Crystallo, winning in seven different categories. The most important accolades were probably Best Game and Best New Designer. Me and the cats have had a look at the game.

2020-01-30

The Isle of Cats

Games about cats or with the word cat in the title tend to be lightweight and silly party games. I avoid them. Titles like Kittens in a Blender, Exploding Kittens, Battle Kittens and Eat Poop You Cat seem so common that I automatically assume that if a game’s about cats, it sadly isn’t for me. But The Isle of Cats seems different.

2020-01-06

Star Realms: Frontiers – Deckbuilding Dumbed Down

For two intoxicated gamers with a lot to talk about, Star Realms is a good way of keeping the hands busy. But as a solo game it leaves a lot to be desired. In this short review I sum up why it’s not staying in my collection.

2020-01-05

The War of the Worlds – A Pointed Review

Based on the novel by H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds is a science fiction wargame with a streamlined and abstracted set of rules and mechanisms. The game is true to the book that inspired it, but is it any fun to play? Me and the cats give you the answer, point by point.

2019-12-29

Cthulhu Crafts

On BoardGameGeek, each game in the database has a files section where thrifty users upload anything from rules summaries and player aids to fan-made scenarios and solitaire variants. I found some great accessories for Arkham Horror: The Card Game and Mansions of Madness, and spent a cold winter evening indoors with my two cats and a pair of scissors.

2019-12-24

Merry Christmas!

Juni, Mysan and I wish you happy holidays and give you a glimpse of what’s coming in 2020.