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Review: Medici (iPhone)
THE GAME In Medici, players are merchants bidding over goods at the dockside so they can load their ships. There are 5 different types of goods and each good tile has a value from 0 to 5 on it too....
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Review: Roll Through the Ages (iPhone)
THE GAME Roll Through the Ages is a bit like Yahtzee meets Civilization. Players roll dice and they can keep the results or re-roll as they wish. After 3 rolls, or if earlier if desired, the player...
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Review: Kingsburg (iPhone)
THE GAME Kingsburg is a dice-rolling, resource managing and building game. Players roll 3 dice and then take turns allocating combinations of their dice in order to gain the benefits of the 18...
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Review: Neuroshima Hex (iPhone)
I was interested in Neuroshima Hex when it was released at Spiel a few years ago. However, I didn’t get a chance to play it then, or since, so I was pleased to see it released on iPhone so I could...
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Review: Samurai (iPhone)
THE GAME Samurai is a game of tile placement where players try to surround towns and cities with their different strength tiles in order to capture as many of the three different types of tokens as...
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Review: Zooloretto (iPhone)
After many years of having Windows-based smartphones, I decided to change to an iPhone because (a) I didn’t like the look of the new Windows phones, and (b) I saw various board games being released on...
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Review Wabash Cannonball (iPhone)
Like me, you may know Wabash Cannonball as Chicago Express as that’s the name under which it was released by Queen Games. For this review, I’ll refer to the game as Wabash Cannonball as that’s the...
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Review: Carcassonne (iPhone)
Many serious gamers may feel Carcassonne is too simple for them as it’s a great gateway game; however, I recommend they don’t dismiss Carcassonne on iPhone as it has a lot to offer. THE GAME In...
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Review: Ingenious (iPhone)
Ingenious goes by several names (such as Genial and Mensa Connections). Ingenious is a good name for an English version as pulling out a game called Mensa makes most players wince at the idea and they...
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Review: Ra (iPhone)
THE GAME Ra is one of Reiner Knizia’s classic games. In this case, it’s an Egyptian themed auction game. Players take turns either adding a random tile to those to be auctioned, or they can start an...
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Review: Viva Il Re (iPhone)
THE GAME I get the impression that Viva Il Re isn’t that well-known, although it got a Spiel des Jahres recommendation in 2004 and it’s recent re-release as King Me is sure to have increased awareness...
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Review: Kingdoms (iPhone)
THE GAME Kingdoms is a tile-placement game by Reiner Knizia which has some similarities to his game Robot Master. In Kingdoms, players place tiles and their own castles in order to sc0re victory...
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Review: Arkham Horror Toolkit (iPhone)
I was very excited when I saw there was an Arkham Horror Toolkit app for the iPhone. I’m a big fan of Arkham Horror* – I wasn’t expecting to play the game in an app but I thought it would be something...
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Review: Battlestar Galactica Loyalty Deck (iPhone)
The Battlestar Galactica Loyalty Deck is an app that aims to help players during set-up of the Battlestar Galactica board game by FantasyFlight Games. (If you haven’t played the game, the loyalty deck...
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Review: Battle Line (iPhone)
Battle Line is one of my favourite portable 2-player games. Consisting of a deck of cards and a few wooden pawns (and even the pawns aren’t totally necessary), it packs lots of punch by posing...
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Review: Through The Desert (iPhone)
Through The Ages is Reiner Knizia’s 1998 classic game of camel placement and area control. I haven’t actually played the original boardgame but have wanted to for some time, so the iPhone game was a...
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On The Radar: Neuroshima Hex Puzzle (iPhone)
Neuroshima Hex on iPhone is a quick-playing well-executed game on iPhone So, it’s great to see that the same developer (Big Daddy’s Creations) is releasing a puzzle version of the game in March 2011....
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Interesting iPhone game project on Kickstarter: RoboArena
The guys creating RoboArena – an iPhone and iPad app they’re creating via Kickstarter which is a mix of RoboRally and turn-based X-COM – got in touch with me recently to tell me about their project....
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On The Radar: Stone Age (iPhone)
The Stone Age game app for iPhone has been submitted to Apple and should be released in December. It’s been developed by Campfire Creations and, from the screen shots so far, it looks very promising....
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iPhone: Stone Age
Apologies for the lack of reviews this last week, I’ve had a lot of work to do (this time designing a freemium game which is very interesting). I had the opportunity to download and play the iPhone...
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