Eric Mortensen

Fluxx is a card game like no other. With the rules and objective constantly changing, you can never be sure of your position in the game. Despite the game being a little too reliant on luck, Fluxx is still a great game.

Despite having some issues, Dutch Blitz does a great job of mixing fun gameplay with easy to understand rules.

I have to be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from Befuzzled. It looked like a dime a dozen party game where you make a fool of yourself while playing. After playing, I ended up being pleasantly surprised.

Electronic Hyper Slide is an electronic game created by Hasbro in 2007. Electronic Hyper Slide is a collection of five games that tries to take a modern approach to Simon Says, Simon, and Mastermind. While Electronic Hyper Slide might get boring during extended play, it works well as a quick pick up and play game.

The game publisher Ravensburger has a pretty hit and miss track record in my opinion. The smaller children games are usually boring, require no strategy, rely entirely on luck, and are generally poorly designed games. On the other hand, Ravensburger’s family and adult games are usually pretty good. Unfortunately, Mini Cat & Mouse falls into the bad children’s game category.

If you don’t already know, like most of America I am a huge football fan (Go Packers!) Throughout the years many football board games have been made with most of them not being very good. Looking at Jukem Football, I didn’t have very high expectations. The game looked like a family game and I thought it would be a pretty shallow experience. After playing the game, I was actually pleasantly surprised.

In recent years, out of nowhere the bridge construction genre has really started to gain traction in the video games market. I don’t know where the fascination with bridge construction has come from, but I decided to give one of the many entries in the genre a chance. Bridge Constructor Playground began as a mobile game and you can definitely tell. It is not a great game but it is not terrible either.

As a child I liked playing the game War. War was far from the most strategic game but for some reason it was still an enjoyable game. Either the game of War is not nearly as good as I remember, or Top Trumps Greek Mythology does a terrible job re-imagining it.

Since being released in 2013, Gone Home has been the topic of much discussion. Players generally either love or hate the game. Gone Home has won several game of the year awards while some people debate whether Gone Home should even be considered a video game. After playing the game I believe that Gone Home is a good but overrated game.

When I was a child I remember playing a card and dice game where you used a standard deck of playing cards, two dice and whatever you chose to use as chips/markers. You rolled the dice and were able to get rid of cards based on what number was rolled. I actually liked playing this game as a child but I have not played the game in many years. As it turns out, Pacardy is almost exactly the same game but with some slight rule differences. After playing Pacardy I would have to say that I actually preferred the rules from the game I played when I was a kid.