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https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/27/wendybuxxx/

Published: April 27, 2026 21:05

Certain words set my teeth on edge. “Content” is the worst offender. If you want to tell me you don’t care about something, call it content. The other is “influencer.” Michael Barnes, once the finest critic of board games and the source of my first gig…

Deck-Build with the Devil

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/23/dark-pact/

Published: April 23, 2026 15:54

I don’t know what I expected Tom Lehmann to design next, but Dominion on Adderall wasn’t on the list. That’s as short a summary as I can muster for Dark Pact, and it’s a surprisingly apt comparison, right down to the action limits and buy phase that marked…

Nepo Demibabies

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/21/scales-of-fate/

Published: April 21, 2026 18:50

Yesterday we looked at Pillars of Fate, a kinda-sorta remake of extended family reunion simulator Veiled Fate, and found it wanting for much the same reason as the original. The gods are capricious, everybody knows that, but their fickleness doesn’t…

Gods in All Their Fickleness

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/20/pillars-of-fate/

Published: April 20, 2026 23:49

Ah, Veiled Fate. It’s been a while since we encountered IV Studio’s game of spurious divine parentage. At the time, it was dearly close to becoming a favorite, but its shortcomings were sufficient that the possibility was as scuttled as my own Olympian…

Hey! A Place I’ve Actually Been!

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/16/lets-go-to-france/

Published: April 16, 2026 19:16

At this point, it doesn’t seem far-fetched to crown Josh Wood the king of tableau-builders. Yes, yes, like a trampler of horse glue I’m invoking Santa Monica yet again, but the more relevant touchstone today is Let’s Go! To Japan, a lovely, if flawed, game…

Space-Cast! #55. Burnt Poop

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/15/sbsc-55/

Published: April 15, 2026 17:24

Poop! Spies! What do they have in common? Both are featured in board games designed by Jon Teixeira Moffat, naturally. On today’s Space-Cast!, we’re joined by Jon to discuss the long development of both Night Soil and Burned, the hidden cost of labor, and…

Flippin’ Mickey

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/14/fliptoons/

Published: April 14, 2026 19:30

FlipToons was designed by Renato Simões and Jordy Adan, the latter of whom gave us Stonespine Architects and Cartographers, but the real star of the show is Diego Sá, whose animated characters make me want to rate the game significantly higher than I would…

Brine & Origami

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/13/sea-salt-and-paper/

Published: April 13, 2026 22:52

Sea Salt & Paper sure was hot a couple years back, huh? I didn’t think much of this thing the first time I encountered it, perhaps a symptom of having only played it with a single partner; in contrast to some, I find it needs room to stretch out. Perhaps…

Sejm As It Ever Was

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/09/rex-regnat/

Published: April 9, 2026 21:20

Here’s a situation for you. It’s the last decade of the 1700s. Far across the sea, a rebellion has ousted the British from thirteen of their prize colonies, leading to the adoption of a new constitution. Revolutionary fervor is sweeping the continent,…

Wagering Everything on Bronto

https://spacebiff.com/2026/04/08/dino-racer/

Published: April 9, 2026 00:36

Are wacky races the new zombies of board games? Probably not, but it strikes me as wild that I’ve played four distinct wacky race games within the span of a single year, yet nobody within my circle agrees on which one is the forerunner. Dino Racer, the…