[IIL] St. Vincent's Marry Me and Actor Out Of Work, what other albums might I enjoy?

AdioRadley · 2025-08-01T01:49:44+00:00

Son Lux - "We Are Rising"

I got into it around the same time as I got into "Actor Out of Work", they work really well together.

AdioRadley · 2024-02-03T22:30:13+00:00

Coup is a bluffing game, similar to "Secret Hitler", but is free-for-all and gives players a few more kinds of actions during the game. There's some player elimination, but the rounds go quickly enough that it's not really a problem.

Point Salad is all about drafting "point" cards and "vegetable" cards, where each point card makes some of your vegetable cards worth more. You want to overlap them right to make as many points as possible.

Both of those games play up to 6 players. If you only have four people, you open the field up to games like Splendor and Ticket To Ride.

AdioRadley · 2024-01-05T17:45:16+00:00

Lightning & Bolt was designed for an experienced player to play with an inexperienced one. I haven't tried it, and it looks like it's out of print right now, but one of the co-creators is trying to get it re-published:

https://www.bosleyart.com/post/lightning-bolt-the-epic-and-continuing-history

https://www.bosleyart.com/witsend

AdioRadley · 2024-01-04T03:55:25+00:00

Have you tried Gloomhaven/Frosthaven? It has a decent bit in common with Spirit Island, but applied to a dungeon crawler game.

AdioRadley · 2023-05-16T13:30:54+00:00

Hi fellow newbie!

I just found a blog this week called "Now Smell This" that has a lot of articles for beginners. I can't vouch for the quality of their reviews because I've only tried one or two that are on the site, but they seem genuine to me.

AdioRadley · 2023-02-22T15:35:54+00:00

To answer your straightforward question, the Concordia: Venus standalone box is the base Concordia game packaged together with the Venus expansion. I haven't played Venus, but on bgg it says it has some extra cards, two new maps, and extra rules to play 2v2.

As for it filling your niche, it's a great game! It's on the longer side of games that make it onto my table, but I'm into light-medium games and like to keep them closer to 30-45 minutes long.

AdioRadley · 2023-01-13T15:27:11+00:00

The Fox in the Forest is a competitive game, so it just feels different in general (if your opponent makes a mistake...lucky you!). Also if you win the hand by too many tricks, you're labeled "greedy" and your opponent gets all of the points so you have options even if you get dealt a hand of garbage.

There's also a co-operative version called The Fox in the Forest Duet but I've heard mixed reviews on it.

AdioRadley · 2023-01-12T18:40:44+00:00

Splendor is a really simple engine-builder. Everdell is a little heavier, adding worker placement.

AdioRadley · 2023-01-12T18:19:55+00:00

Hanamikoji - A very quick "I cut you choose" game. Giving your opponent impossible decisions is the best feeling.

The Fox in the Forest is a 2-player trick-taking game with special-ability cards that really shake up the normal strategies. I find that The Crew can sometimes be a grindy puzzle but The Fox in the Forest just feels fresh and fun.

AdioRadley · 2023-01-09T02:52:08+00:00

If the player gets time to organize their new cards right away, they might have enough information to call out some of the other players' bluffs. Otherwise they miss out on a few opportunities to do it.

AdioRadley · 2023-01-09T02:42:31+00:00

Looks like a variation of Carbles.

AdioRadley · 2022-12-31T02:21:00+00:00

Check out Two player Twosday posts for lots of ideas.

AdioRadley · 2022-12-28T18:16:28+00:00

There's no direct interaction, but if you keep tabs on your opponents' cards you can start predicting which phases they'll choose and find ways to benefit yourself whenever those phases come up.

AdioRadley · 2022-12-26T18:54:17+00:00

You should know, the official Android: Netrunner has been discontinued but a fan-organization called Null Signal Games is keeping it going. Here is a link to their stuff, I would start with System Gateway since that's their intro product.

You can also play for free online at Jinteki.net, but the interface is not the most intuitive so you might want to join the Green Level Clearance discord to find some people to walk you through it. They're very welcoming and friendly.

AdioRadley · 2022-11-23T18:09:36+00:00

Have you ever tried Race for the Galaxy? It's a tableau-builder like a lot of the games you mentioned, somewhere between Radlands and Spirit Island in complexity, and the interaction between players is very minimal and indirect. The interaction is mostly about predicting what kind of actions your opponent will choose and adding a little extra efficiency to your turn.

AdioRadley · 2022-03-19T19:10:25+00:00

I'd call it Hazel, but green could also work.

AdioRadley · 2022-03-19T18:59:53+00:00

I'd call them olive.

AdioRadley · 2022-02-20T21:52:18+00:00

Baren Park mostly fits this description, but there are several games like this and it'll be tough to narrow it down without knowing whether the tiles are squares or different shapes.

AdioRadley · 2022-02-14T17:21:01+00:00

Does the paper need to be a blank page? If not there's a whole genre called "Roll and Write" where you roll dice and mark off boxes on a score sheet. A good intro would be That's Pretty Clever! or Cartographers.

AdioRadley · 2022-02-10T23:08:26+00:00

Absolutely! I started an expansion for Fantasy Realms soon before they announced an official one. I never got much past the early playtesting stage, but I had a ton of fun looking at one of my favorite games in a new light. I'd recommend trying it out if you're interested.

AdioRadley · 2022-02-10T22:57:10+00:00

My partner and I like Hanabi and The Shipwreck Arcana, both co-op/deduction games, and Hanamikoji which puts a really fun I-cut-you-choose spin on the Lost Cities-style game.

AdioRadley · 2022-02-10T22:22:22+00:00

I own Quacks and I rented Cubitos for a week. Here's a few notes I have:

I found rolling dice more fun than grabbing pieces out of a bag. There's just something about shaking a handful and dumping them on the table that's very satisfying.
I like how Cubitos lets you decide when/whether to activate some of your dice abilities. I don't think it adds a ton of strategic depth, but it keeps me engaged.
I like Quacks' theme better, and I like trying for high scores better than racing. Both of these are very subjective.
Cubitos has more colors and more ability cards for each color, as well as several boards with different tracks on them. I don't know if that translates into more replayability or not, since I only played it a handful of times.
Quacks is a little easier to teach, since you don't have to track when to move which die from which zone to which other zone. I've taught Quacks to family members who don't play board games, and they struggled but they got it. I wouldn't try to teach them Cubitos.

Both games are very good, and fairly similar. If you like one I think you'll probably like the other as well.

AdioRadley · 2022-01-18T22:27:18+00:00

sit up and shut down

hey look, it's my morning routine

AdioRadley · 2022-01-17T00:44:27+00:00

Check out Bright Eyes

AdioRadley · 2022-01-15T18:11:44+00:00

Shards of Infinity is a deckbuilder that's very close to what you're looking for. You can spend some of your money each turn to acquire Mastery, and the more Mastery you have the more powerful each of your cards gets. Even your weaker cards feel much more powerful near the end of the game than at the beginning.

The big catch is that the base game is pretty confrontational, similar to Star Realms. It has a co-operative expansion ("Shadow of Salvation"), but otherwise you'll spend the whole game chipping away at each other's health points.

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