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Excavation Earth – Kickstarter boardgames

Excavation Earth - Kickstarter Boardgame

Kickstarter boardgames. There are a lot of board games about buying and selling in a market. It’s a very popular drama and having played more than a few I can tell you it’s actually very fun. Especially when you have a real cleaver premise combined with great art and solid mechanics. Excavation Earth lets you play as an alien archaeologist scouring the ruins of humanity on an abandoned earth looking for cool stuff to sell or put in museums. It’s full of hilarious little easter eggs, but more importantly it’s a very fun well-designed euro. Excavation Earth from Might Boards has done Kickstarter twice and is available in retail. If we’ve convinced you that this is one of the best games ever and you’d like to get a copy, you’re in luck. Check out the links below!

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Excavation Earth – Stone Monkey

This week we also discuss Kickstarter boardgames currently available to back. I’m not saying you have to back these kickstarter boardgames, but you really should check them out. LOL! Biohack – by uchibacoya looks amazing. One of our faviorite little kickstarter boardgames Aqua garden is from the same company. Expect a lot of game for your dollar.

Apex Legends™: The Board Game by Glass Cannon just looks cool. Glass Cannon had a big success with ther previous game ‘”Frost Pun”. If you’re a fan of the popular video game it might be worth checking out.

Like I said, buy responsibly but these both look like great games to check out on kickstarter. check the links bellow.

Biohack – Kickstarter

Apex Legends™: The Board Game – Kickstarter

Check out our other reviews for cool board games we have purchased through Kickstarter here on our episodes page.

We are always looking for new board games to review for our podcast. If you have any Board Games you would like us to review, that are coming up on Kickstarter soon, let us know in the contact us page.

Rhino Hero Super Battle

Sometimes the things you suspect you won’t enjoy turn out to be the things you enjoy the most. For example, lots of people think PB&J is gross without even trying it, but their wrong. I never wanted to play Rhino Hero Super Battle because I didn’t like the yellow box. How silly was I. This isn’t a game from kickstarter but it is easily one of the best kids/family games I’ve played. 5 out of 5! I guess you really can’t judge a game by its box. In other words, everybody should at least try PB&J. LOL! Also, we talk a bit about what’s currently on kickstarter that looks good or interesting. I found 3 games currently on kickstarter that I would buy if I had infinite money and space. Actually, if I had infinite money and space I would probably buy a bout two dozen kickstarter games every week. LOL

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Check out our other reviews for cool board games we have purchased through Kickstarter here on our episodes page.

We are always looking for new board games to review for our podcast. If you have any Board Games you would like us to review, that are coming up on Kickstarter soon, let us know in the contact us page.

Beast Kickstarter Board Game review

 

In this fortnight’s podcast episode of Hot Game Magnet, we do a review of the Kiickstarter Board Game: Beast, our latest favorite game from Kickstarter.

Hidden Movement is one of the most thematic mechanics in board gaming. Essentially, there is just something about sneaking around the game board and springing traps on your opponent that really sucks you into the fantasy world of the board game.

Beast by Studio Midhall is a perfect fit for this mechanic. Basically, I can’t say enough how fun it is to skulk around the shadows of a primordial forest as an immense mythological monster. Indeed, it is very satisfying to see your opponent struggle to figure out your whereabouts before you strike. It is almost as satisfying as when you are playing as a hunter and manage to smite the beast.

In this fortnights board game review, we review our newest favorite board game from Kickstarter: BEAST by Studio Midhall. While getting board games in the post from Kickstarter is super fun, so is playing them. Listen to our podcast review of this really awesome game by clicking the player below.

Studio Midhall

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Beast – Shattered Isles expansion

Check out our other reviews for cool board games we have purchased through Kickstarter here on our episodes page.

We are always looking for new board games to review for our podcast. If you have any Board Games you would like us to review, that are coming up on Kickstarter soon, let us know in the contact us page.

Mark Swanson: Odd Bird Games

I had the opportunity to speak with Mark about the future of his company Odd Bird Games and he had some exciting news.

He has been teasing in social media that a new game will be coming out, but in fact he has a total of three brand new games in the works that will be crowdfunding in 2023 and 2024. Mark had a lot to say about these new games, called FIR, FLED, and an as yet unnamed CCG.

If you’re a fan of Feudum then this is a must listen episode, but to be honest after listening to this episode you will probably be a fan of everything Odd Bird Games has to offer.

Check out the oddbird games website for more information and to buy games

(oddbirdgames.com)

Buy Local in Darwin

Stone Monkey AUS

 

 

On Tour Paris & New York

What’s better than Travel Games or Traveling? Playing Travel Games while Traveling. I really like games that are set in a real-world location, and I kind of want to go all over the world and play games in the real-world city where they are set. There might be some exceptions to this. Anyway, On Tour Paris & New York contains two games about real-world cities for the price of one. It’s pretty fun as well. LOL!

If you like the sound of this game follow the link below to buy

buy it from letsallplay.com

buy it in Darwin

buy it from Gameology

 

Kingdom Death: Monster (prt 1)

 

Kingdom Death Monster is like no other game we have reviewed. It’s easily the biggest, both in physical size and gameplay content. It is very dark. Very very dark, and gory, and violent, and really dark. However, it is at the same time artistically beautiful. Every miniature, every graphic, and illustration, even the choices of color feel part of one powerful artistic vision. It is heavily derivative of Japanese comic books, but at the same time it is completely unique and again every aspect of its narrative is by the uncompromising vision of the game’s creator. It is the most expensive game I have come across, but of all the games I own it has the best value. Kingdom Death Monster is an overwhelmingly huge gaming experience, and this review is only our first cursory foray into this expansive and still growing game.

to buy the game follow the link below.

Kingdom Death | Boutique Nightmare Horror

Zaberias

Getting your kids involved in the boardgame hobby is one of the major payoffs for parents who are avid gamers. It’s not always so easy though. What if you’re into heavy fantasy dungeon crawlers? How do you get your kids into that? There are a lot of kids’ games and educational games out there, but let’s be honest, most of them are just not fun. Zaberias is relatively new educational game. It’s also a fantasy skirmish game. It’s also really fun and it’s also very accessible to kids. It’s pretty educational as well. Okay, so maybe not all education kids’ games are drag.

click the link below to find out more about Zaberias

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Chateau

Chateau is a new Roll&Write game coming to kickstarter  as a Print&Play. We got the chance to check it out early when Rolling Rhino Games sent us a review copy. It’s definitely a lot of fun, and it’s interesting how well Roll&Write games work as a Print&Play. All you need is some dice, pencils and a printer. I wonder what other syles and Formats of games are a perfect match. Let us know what combinations you think are ideal.

Château by Rolling Rhino Games — Kickstarter

Kickstarter Round up February 2023

I don’t buy every game I like but I probably buy more than I should. that’s okay. I’ve made my peace. It could be drugs, right? At least it’s not drugs. It’s now February and I’ve been up to my old tricks. Hanging around kickstarter pages. Perusing Facebook marketplace. Coveting surprise preorders. LOL. Anyway, I’ve made up a short list of the games I find most tantalizing, and we discuss the pros and cons of this month’s kickstarter round up (KSRU). Let us know if I’ve convinced you to back a new game, or if I didn’t include something that you think is just criminal not to include. This is fun. We do it for the fun. I can stop anytime.

Follow the links below to back or buy the games we talk about in today’s episode!

 www.zaberias.com

Marvel United: Multiverse by CMON — Kickstarter

Hollywood 1947

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: ANNIHILAGEDDON 3 by Cryptozoic Entertainment — Kickstarter