J. A. Keener

I made a decision when I started this website to run content about board games and books. The pandemic pretty much shut down any hope of playing board games in…

It isn’t a secret that Terraforming Mars is one of my favorite board games of all time.  It shouldn’t be a surprise that when Jacob Fryxelius announced the latest TM…

I’ve been working on this board game review for several months on and off, trying to find the best way to cover it. Because this is a pseudo-legacy game, I…

I have owned a copy of Terraforming Mars for a while, but I was waiting to write up my thoughts on it until I had a chance to sink my…

Life the past few weeks has been hard. We packed up everything at the start of the month and moved to Michigan for a great opportunity. The benefits of the…

Designed by Régis Bonnesseé and published by Libellud, Dice Forge is a “resource engine” game that incorporates the luck of dice. As with other resource engine style games, your goal…

I hit 10% completion on the first draft for Of Storm and Sky, so I decided to celebrate by doing a board game review. I have been trying to incentivize…

This is a review I have been wanting to write for a long time, but I wanted to make sure I played through the game a few more times before…

I am slowly but surely closing in the gaps in my board game collection. A lot of the games I owned played up to 4 people, so I have been…

My lovely wife was kind enough to gift to me a pair of new board games for my birthday this year. One of those games, Machi Koro, is a relatively…