Christopher Biewer – Board Game Quest

Wyrmspan Review

Christopher Biewer — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:15:59 +0000

I am not unique in being a fan of Wingspan, so I have been looking forward to playing Wyrmspan. Because who wouldn’t want to play a dragon version of Wingspan? Except that Stonemaier goes out of its way to make sure everyone knows that Wyrmspan is not just a dragon reskin of Wingspan, I mean […]

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Food Truck Entrepreneur Review

Christopher Biewer — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:08:10 +0000

I was living in Los Angeles when Roy Choi and Twitter started the Food Truck Craze with the amazing Kogi Food Track, (Bring a friend and split the Spicy Pork and Short Rib burritos.) so I was excited to take a bite out of Food Truck Entrepreneur. However, much like the wait at many of […]

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SiliconVania Review

Christopher Biewer — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:21:28 +0000

If you have ever read a review by me, you know I love a good pun, a bad pun, or any play on words. So, SiliconVania and its longline: “Help the Vampires of Transylvania build the next century’s tech hub” had me inspired. A card drafting, city building, multiplayer solitaire game with a cartoony Vampire […]

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Shapers of Gaia Review

Christopher Biewer — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:00:07 +0000

I enjoyed Populous on the Sega Genesis and the Fallout video game series, so I thought Shapers of Gaia was going to be right up my alley, but somehow it just missed for me. In Shapers of Gaia, you emerge from a vault to “Restore Biomes and help repopulate Gaia’s species from the past, present, […]

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Mega Man Adventures Review

Christopher Biewer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:08:56 +0000

I first played Mega Man 2 on the floor of my parent’s living room, playing on a 13in TV with turn knobs for volume and channels, with a chipped NES controller broken from a temper tantrum by my brother Brian. I remember laughing at turning stars into birds by hold a+b when selecting the boss, […]

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Joan of Arc: Orleans Draw and Write Review

Christopher Biewer — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:12:36 +0000

Joan of Arc was a heroic fighter who helped lead the French Army to a victory at the city of Orleans. So, using her name for a draw and write follow-up to the successful board game Orleans makes perfect sense. Using her name for the multiplayer version of this game, in which you compete to […]

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Velonimo Review

Christopher Biewer — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:02:07 +0000

Velonimo is a cycling-themed, ladder climbing and card shredding game by Bruno Cathala. Bruno must love the letters o-n-i-m-o, as he also the man behind both Kingdomino and Queendomino. Bruno has designed many award-winning games, my favorite of which is Mr. Jack. Back to this game, “In Velonimo, animals of all stripes compete in a […]

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Rebuilding Seattle Review

Christopher Biewer — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:00:29 +0000

I am from the Chicago area, lived many of my adult years in Chicago, have worked in Chicago for over 20 years, so when I think of great fires, there is only one Great Fire. But apparently, Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was busy in Seattle too, because in 1889, 18 years after the Great Fire of […]

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Birdwatcher Review

Christopher Biewer — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:28:26 +0000

With Wingspan’s success, I anticipated other bird related games, so when Birdwatcher landed on my review table I was neither surprised or honestly that excited. However, this game holds its own. Birdwatcher is a fast-paced, competitive card drafting and set collecting game in which rival photographers attempt to assemble the best Photo Journal comprised of […]

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Sleeping Queens 2: The Rescue Review

Christopher Biewer — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:19:10 +0000

Let’s talk about the name of this game, it’s great. Love the wordplay. I never played the original but I hope it was called Sleeping Queens 1: For the Ages (or the Money)… I know much like Rocky I, it wasn’t called Sleeping Queens 1 when it came out, but Gamewright should go back and […]

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