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Animals at War and Charming Landscapes – Air, Land and Sea and Dorfromantik: 29/7

Hey PI-Fans, This week's releases really need no explanation. Air, Land and Sea: Critters at War and Critters at War: Flies, Lies and Supplies are thematic reskins of the excellent 2-player card game Air, Land and Sea and Spies, Lies and Supplies. Redrawn with cartoon animals, the game maintains the simple elegance of the area-majority hand management card game, with players trying to play card totals which outscore their opponent in two or more of the respective scoring zones. Except with fuzzy animals. Given the Bloomburrow Prerelease we held recently for Magic: The Gathering, I'm sensing a theme. The other big arrival of the week Dorfromantic: The Board Game took home to prestigious 2023 Spiel des Jahres. Itself a board game adaptation of the surprisingly chill videogame Dorfromantic, the titular game sees players collaboratively laying down tiles representing areas of the rural countryside. In Dorfromantik: The Board Game, up to [...]

By |2024-07-29T16:40:33+08:00July 29th, 2024|Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items, News|
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The Restock Run – 23/7/24

Hey PI-Fans, One of the dangers of running a game store for a while is that one's capacity to express glee erodes. The most dangerous disconnect is where everything is met with 😐, no matter how excited you are over things. Pardon the eternal 😐. After a few years, you run out of vocabulary to convey how cool stuff really is.  That said, this week sees another stack of stuff slide off a boat and into the store and the restocks include things from differing board game, card game and wargame lines, so as always, we try to keep a little something for everyone. RPG fans will be happy to know the much abused Dice Rack has been restocked, along with the new printing of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition core books. Those seeking a more cerebral experience can consider the MicroMacro range restock as well, full of item-search detective puzzles, [...]

By |2024-07-23T15:09:40+08:00July 23rd, 2024|BattleTech, Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items, News|
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Exactly What It Says On The Tin: Let’s Hit Each Other With Fake Swords – 09/07/24

Hey PI-Fans, Do you know what more card games need? Violence. The delightfully named "Let's Hit Each Other With Fake Swords" aims to enthusiastically fill that void in gaming by mixing set collection gameplay with the most elegant of dispute settlement mechanics - hitting each other. Designed as a party game for 3 to 6 players, games of Let's Hit Each Other With Fake Swords are short and amusing affairs - each turn has players simultaneously indicating which of different piles of cards they wish to take for a round. Should more than one player want a specific stack of cards, the most adult conflict resolution of inter-player violence will come into play. Get 3 cards of the same color to make a set. If you are the first person to get 3 sets of cards, you win the game!   https://youtu.be/Gad_MqEl-98

By |2024-07-09T13:05:19+08:00July 9th, 2024|Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items, News|
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A Rack Full Of Restocks – Unfathomable Expansions and Assorted Weirdness – 05/07

Hey PI-Fans, The law of shipment attraction strikes again. No clue how it works sometimes but stuff just slams down like a meteor. This shipment restocks of a bunch of our traditional titles like Catan, 7 Wonders and Dixit, but also reloads sought after games like Tiny Epic Dungeons, Dobble, Skull and Durian which are fast becoming mainstays on gaming tables. On the new stuff front, Anarchy Pancakes, a collaboration between the Exploding Kittens Company and Dobble, flips out onto the shelves, bringing the wacky and slightly chaotic brand of humor to the pattern matching decks of Dobble. Also arriving in the same heap of 'newness' is WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS, a charade style card game which forces players into increasingly absurd acting, drawing and speech patterns to get their point across. Anyone craving something bigger can look to Unfathomable -  From the Abyss, an expansion for the Cthulhu-esque [...]

By |2024-07-06T12:44:13+08:00July 6th, 2024|Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items|
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Blue Lagoon – 29/06/24

Hey PI-Fans, Blue Orange Game's Blue Lagoon is a Reiner Knizia classic area control board game that sees nomadic settlers spreading out across an archipelago of island. Unavailable for the longest time, we've finally managed to get our hands on copies of this elegant little Eurogame and it's made it's way back to our shelves. In Blue Lagoon, each player controls a tribe trying to explore and settle the eight islands of the Blue Lagoon while establishing control of the abundant natural resources found there.  In classic Eurogame style, this is achieved through a 'conflict-less' token placement system as players plonk down tokens representing villagers and huts across the islands, creating long strings of tiles as they attempt to spread across the islands and reach natural resource tokens before other players. Placement of huts becomes even more critical in subsequent rounds as they form the initial starting zones for a [...]

By |2024-06-29T13:10:25+08:00June 29th, 2024|Board Games, Items, New items, News|
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Bigger Editions? – 04/06/24

Hey PI-Fans, There are times when a game is hard to improve on. Spiel de Jahres (Game of the Year) winners like Codenames and Kingdomino for instance are already incredibly elegant titles mechanically... so... well... you can always make them bigger. Coming in at double the regular size of regular Codenames and Kingdomino sets, the XXL and Giant edition of the games function well in party environments, making them excellent with big groups.  If you're looking for a more visually striking gameplay experience, mayhaps consider whether a bigger box will be more your speed.

By |2024-06-04T16:26:45+08:00June 4th, 2024|Board Games, Items, News|
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Equinox Golem – 01/06/24

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your... Golems? Hey PI-Fans, Reiner Knizia's classic Colossal Arena (Aka. Titan: The Arena Aka. Galaxy: The Dark Ages Aka. Grand National Derby) has recieved Plan B's Golem theming in Equinox - Golem Edition, a cutthroat competition where players bet on competing Golems, vying to ensure that the Golems they have bid on are the ones which  escape elimination. Players will play cards matching the different golem suits to ensure the golems they want to win have the highest overall ratings. Also, player can use the special powers of the golems they have backed to shape the competition by drawing, discarding or swapping the cards played, allowing them to hopefully come out ahead of the opposition. Bet, scheme and strategize to ensure the Golems you wager on advance through competition rounds without being eliminated while ensuring your continue to climb the ranks of the compeition. Will your [...]

By |2024-06-01T14:18:59+08:00June 1st, 2024|Board Games, Items, News|
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Harmonies – 21/5/24

Hey PI-Fans, Another week, another new game. This week's feature is Harmonies, a 3D Terrain placement game where players work to stack different biome pieces together to accommodate and score different wildlife and biomes. Build and stack mountains, trees and rivers while placing terrain to house different animals, each with their own ecosystem requirements.   Harmonies: 1-4 Players, 30 min, Ages 10+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tnOAFMw_jQ In Harmonies, each player takes a turn to draft a set of different biome tokens and animal cards which they work to integrate into their own board space. Players score points for placing tokens in formations that represent Trees, Mountains, Rivers and Buildings, but also need to take the specific needs of the wildlife into consideration when placing their territory. The game includes a solo mode and an "expert" mode, adding the spirits of nature to the game's animal cards. 

By |2024-05-21T13:53:57+08:00May 21st, 2024|Board Games, Items, New items, News|
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Canvas, Canvas Reflections, Canvas Finishing Touches – 14/5/24

Hey PI-Fans, If you're anything quite like me, you're a complete sucker for a game that leans in on a theme. The Canvas series is one of those games. As a painter competing in an art competition, players need to collect cards representing different art elements, holding on to the ones containing features the match the randomly selected judging criteria of the round. The twist here is that said cards are themselves clear plastic, allowing them to be overlaid on top of each other creating custom art pieces. A symbol bar at the bottom of each card displays which art elements are present on each card, with the potential for new layers to cover up or overwrite lower cards. Canvas comes with it's expansions Reflection and Finishing Touches, each of which provides additional elements to a game of Canvas in addition to combining into a stunningly beautiful triptych of art [...]

By |2024-05-14T15:05:56+08:00May 14th, 2024|Board Games, Card Games, Items, News|
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UNLOCK! Extraordinary Adventures

Hey PI-Fans, Just a minor shoutout that the new UNLOCK! set Extraordinary Adventures box is on the shelf. As always this comes with three scenarios of increasing difficulty, from the Detective Noir themed Hollywood Confidential, the space adventure W.A.F.F.'s Odyssey and Restart, which we can't help but hearkens back to the adventure puzzle games of early computing with a name that evokes the television cartoon classic Reboot. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc. Unlock! Extraordinary Adventures includes three separate scenarios for you to explore: Restart Crearia is in shambles! Enter this 90 ’s video game to rescue the royal couple and restore order to their [...]

By |2024-05-07T14:24:41+08:00May 7th, 2024|Board Games, Items, News|
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