Boardgames

Gloomhaven: Bugs and Buttons. In the beginning of full sized Gloomhaven, before any rewards for retiring characters, etc., Gloomhaven is hard. Bugs and Buttons is like that on normal. It's a lot of moving parts for a small game, but keeps the flavor of its big brother but lacks much of a story. Picked it up for a travel game for my partner and I without realizing it's one player.

Sleeping Gods seems interesting narratively. Mechanically, we're getting our asses handed to us. It's a lot of what I like in a game: coop, separated turns so one person doesn't effectively take anyone's turn by giving them advice (like what I saw when recently observing Castle Panic).

A buddy of mine makes games and he did one about becoming the next king that's a card game and you can either win by influence or by murdering everyone else. I'm having trouble finding anything to link to that's not a page for buying it and I don't want to spam it. It's called Succession but isn't any of the games by that name on bgg. Backstabby games aren't usually my thing, but I did manage to assassinate most of the people between me and the crown, which is not easy to do.

I really dislike games where it's easier to make others lose than it is to make yourself win (e.g. Munchkin). Goblin Breakfast was no exception to that. No thanks.