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Author: Michael Heron
Four Years and A Hiatus
This is the last non-patron post you’ll see on the site for a while, because as I indicated in our last editorial – I’m burnt the hell out on the site and I need to take some extended time to reconnect with the hobby rather than the hustle. But today…
Parks (2019) – Accessibility Teardown
It seems mean to say it, but I sort of wish that Parks, rather than Wingspan, was getting all the mainstream attention. It’s not just a better game, it’s a better game for the specific niche that Wingspan seems to have dominated – something endearing enough to bring non-gamers organically…
Parks (2019)
Much like the national parks system itself, Parks the game is an absolute treasure. And like the national parks system, you shouldn’t overlook it just because there are flashier forms of entertainment available. It’s a gorgeous production with a straightforward ruleset that promises little and then over-delivers in spades. Its…
Burnout, The Hobby, and the Hustle
I often struggle with the work I do for this site. Not… doing the work. But rather, the deeper motivation of why this work and why in this form. Before Meeple Like Us I was happy with academic publishing as being my main venue for getting thoughts, results and ideas…
Bang! The Dice Game (2013) – Accessibility Teardown
Bang the Dice Game is a perfectly okay game about banging and dice. It’s inoffensive to an extreme. Briefly amusing with a social cost for playing that can’t really be at all justified in comparison to what its required player count would otherwise let you do of an evening. We…
Bang! The Dice Game (2013)
Bang: The Dice Game plays like a kind of unholy fusion between Yahtzee and the movie Blazing Saddles. It draws not so much from Sergio Leonne as it does Mel Brooks. Imagine the kind of slapstick gunfight you might see if the end of The Good, The Bad and the…
Wavelength (2019) – Accessibility Teardown
Wavelength is a fascinating, interesting game of staring into the bleak abyss that exists in the gulf between inside and outside of our heads. It’s a solipsist horror story of abject isolation. A game of learning what it means to truly be alone in a universe vast beyond all human…
Wavelength (2019)
It’s a pretty great time to be a party gamer, provided that you ignore the fact that being the kind of person that brings games to a party instantly marks you out as a social deviant. The market is full of well known and well regarded titles though, and more…
Top Twelve Best Board Games with which to Start a Collection
Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefit of being reasonably newbie friendly. Each…
Joking Hazard (2016) – Accessibility Teardown (NSFW)
Games like Joking Hazard often get treated with casual disdain in the hobbyist game reviewer space. ‘Not really for us’, we sniff while quaffing vintage meeples from a plastic goblet. ‘Gauche. Vulgar. Base. Low art’, we sneer while liberally loading refined d20 pate onto cardboard crackers. And yet, these games…
Joking Hazard (2016) (NSFW)
Joking Hazard is a fun game, and perhaps that ought to be enough for any of us. It doesn’t have to be clever, or original. It just has to be worth playing….