Marcus E. Burchers – Board Game Quest

Star Trek: Into the Unknown Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:08:41 +0000

As a long-time Star Trek: Attack Wing player, I was cautiously optimistic when I heard that WizKids was doing another Star Trek miniatures game. I always enjoyed Attack Wing (it is one of my favorites!), but lightning doesn’t always strike twice of course. Or is that never strikes twice… I’m not good with clichés. Star […]

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Dungeon Kart Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:12:13 +0000

A few years ago, I was introduced to the game Boss Monster, in which each player is a dungeon boss, and builds up their dungeon to kill any heroes foolish enough to come trying to defeat you. I thought it was a neat concept and a cute game. I proceeded to never play it again. […]

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Life of the Amazonia Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:50:43 +0000

Every good game needs a sequel. When you have a game based on cute little ani-meeples, what better way to make a sequel than going to a completely different ecosystem. That’s what Life of the Amazonia fulfills… it is the psuedo-sequel to Wild: Serengeti, complete with its own set of animals inspired by the Amazon. […]

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Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:57:31 +0000

Popular video games seem like a natural place to look when looking for new board game themes. After all, they are already a game, and the themes have proven popular in their original medium. The road to adapting a video game to a board game, however, has proven to be a rocky one, as such […]

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Noobs in Space Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:33:08 +0000

Sometimes, a game sells itself to you just in its name. I was asked “Do you want to review Noobs in Space?” Knowing nothing else about it, I did not even look at the BGG link before saying yes, solely because of the name. Only later did I discover it was a cooperative game, which […]

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Top 10 Star Trek Board Games

Marcus E. Burchers — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:15:13 +0000

Some intellectual properties really suffer for a lack of good board games. Fans of Transformers, G.I. Joe, and others have often been starved of good board games for their favorite franchises (at least until recently). One that has not had that problem, however, is Star Trek. It has a long and varied history with board […]

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Star Trek: Away Missions The Original Series Expansions Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:17:12 +0000

Here we are, back again with more Star Trek: Away Missions expansions. This time, what is old is new. The Original Series (TOS) gets its first representation in this game in the form of two expansions covering the entire TOS cast: Captain Kirk and Commander Scotty expansions. Naturally, they included Picard in the game first, […]

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Star Trek: Away Missions Wave 2 Expansions Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:23:44 +0000

It feels like just a couple of months ago that I was hearing about this new miniatures game called Star Trek: Away Missions, and now there is already a new wave of expansions for it. I think it felt like that, because it was and now there is. I had some pretty good things to […]

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Wild: Serengeti Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:19:26 +0000

The Venn diagram of nature-lovers and board game players must have a substantial amount of overlap, based on the last couple of years in board games. There have been a lot of titles featuring animals or zoos in the last couple of years alone. I recently looked at the cooperative Miller Zoo, which has resulted […]

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Star Trek: Discovery – Black Alert Review

Marcus E. Burchers — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:55:05 +0000

As a Star Trek fan, there’s no better time to be alive than right now (or the 90s). This second renaissance in Star Trek shows has given us plenty to enjoy. Unless you are looking for board games based on the new shows, that is! Since Star Trek: Discovery first aired in 2017, there have […]

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