All Year I Dream About Game Reviews

On this episode, we review a game that just came to crowdfunding on Backerkit: Portland Oregon Trail ! In this game, you take a weird trip from Portland ME to Portland OR on ramshackle vehicle. You're dealing with local cryptids while trying to avoid the Invisible Hand and hold your bladder in time to get PDX before you have to get a real job with health insurance. Portland Oregon Trail is a G...

To celebrate the release of the album Days by Mountain Goats , we're releasing the last of our first wave of game reviews for the original Mountain Goats game. Can you be the king of the hill? If you get knocked down, will you get back up again because your goats can never be kept down? Is this the best small box death metal band from Denton, TX? (Will these comments ever make sense?) Mountain Goa...

On this episode, Ben and Yonit review the Lord of the Rings 5E Starter Set, made by those wonderful Swedes at Free League! Is it a 5E game? Most likely. Is it filled with Tolkien lore? Assuredly. Does it do what a starter set should do and get you excited to play the full game? Well, you'll have listen in to find out. Now with bonus history of roleplaying in Middle Earth! The Lord of the Rings 5E...

On this episode, your hosts Ben and Ben talk about Twinkle Twinkle , the tile drafting game where you connect constellations, build asteroid belts, and study satellites with the game's modular scoring system. But how much fun can constructing a starry night be? (Spoiler: it's as fun and challenging as you want to make it.) Disclosure: Ben was previously provided with a prototype copy of the game a...

On this episode, we're reviewing our first roleplaying game! Listen in to hear all about STAR BORG , the rules lite Star Wars with the IP filed off RPG made by Kyle Latino and the Bob Ross of dungeon drawing videos, JP Coovert! Get the core rulebooks here! Pick up the starter adventure " The Legion's Foil " or the murder teddy funnel adventure " Uprising on Jungle Moon Beginor "! Pick up supplemen...

On this episode, Ben brings on Ben T. Barackus to review Chomp . In this tableau builder, you are placing tiles filled dinosaurs in the hopes of keeping your carnivores and herbivores alive. Sounds simple? It's trickier than you think, and even more rewarding when you win! Chomp is a medium box game from Allplay for 1 but probably 2-4 players aged 10+. You can learn it in 3-5 minutes and actually...

On this inaugural episode, the intrepid team at All Year I Dream About Gaming Conventions discusses the format for our new reviewcast! Afterwards, we review Vegetable Stock , a light card game from the folks at Arcane Wonders! Does it feature multicolored anthropomorphic vegetables? Yes. Is it an excuse for Ben to flex his degree in economics? Also yes. Does it conclusively prove that tomatoes are...