Tryouts for the Bloodthirsty Cheerleading Squad

They say, “Don’t judge a game by its cover,” but we couldn’t help ourselves—as soon as we saw the box art for Three Cheers for Master, we knew we had to put it in a Game & Beer Pairing. There’s just something terribly appealing about the silhouette art style, the random blood spatters, and the vicious … Read more…

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Take a Riverboat Booze Cruise… with Tentacles

…And we don’t mean calamari. No, we’re referring to the tentacles of some ancient, terrible thing—because they always have tentacles, don’t they? So it should come as little surprise that this week’s Game & Beer Pairing features a recent release aptly called Ancient Terrible Things. In this game, players assume the roles of brazen characters riding … Read more…

Drink Down Dwarf

We love dice games. There’s just something gratifying about throwing a handful of dice and holding your breath, hoping for the right combination. Yet for some reason, in our gaming group, a funny thing happens: The more luck-based a game is, the more competitive it becomes, as if the dice have some secret agenda when … Read more…

Goin’ Hog-Wild with Pork Chopper

For this week’s Game & Beer Pairing, we chose a game that holds a special place on our shelf. We got to see Hogger Logger develop in various ways over a period of about two years before it successfully Kickstartered in 2014. We’ve come to call the designers friends (and even got a private close-up magic … Read more…

Placate the Masses with Bliss and Beer

As both avid gamers and designers, we try to maintain that all games are created equal—yet there’s something magical about the products that Stonemaier Games puts out that leaves us shaking our heads in mild astonishment. For this week’s Game & Beer Pairing, we played Euphoria, a game about faction managers of a dystopian society vying … Read more…

Kill Your Whole Family… and Laugh About It

All you game designers out there, listen up; you can take a lesson or two from this week’s Game & Beer Pairing. This time around, we played Gloom by Atlas Games. In Gloom, each player controls a family of dour souls bent on dying in the most tragic ways possible. For example, one of the families … Read more…

The People Want an Amusement Park

Imagine you’re the mayor of an unusual little town that consists of nothing more than a wheat field and a bakery. You want what’s best for your people, but your citizens have delusions of grandeur. They don’t want clean streets or to vote “yes” on Proposition 213. No, they want things like a shopping mall, … Read more…

Drinking While Playing a Game About Drinking

The Red Dragon Inn seems like a game that was made for a blog like ours. The basis of Slugfest Games’ biggest hit is that the quest is over before you’ve begun; the heroes are done with their dungeon-delving for the day and have retired to the local tavern, the eponymous Red Dragon Inn, for … Read more…