…you’ll love this mysterious village Stay quiet. Do as you’re told. DON’T go into the forest. These are the rules for the Children of...
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Solar Storm
The Ship is Falling Apart. Can You Escape? It's a race against time with an hourglass full of broken parts. Evacuating a starship is a common enough...
Phantom Chess
For the modern enthusiast with old world style. First They Had Chessboards, Then Computers, Now This. Chess is among the oldest games on Earth, and...
Sleeping Gods Distant Skies
A game of decisions and destiny The original Sleeping Gods is a cooperative tabletop RPG with a storybook feel and an actual book of...
Darkside Detective
A throwback to an earlier era The Darkside Detective is a point-and-click mystery game very much in the vein of the old Police Quest series...
Dispatch
Dispatch burst onto the scene with a novel premise in an oversaturated superhero market. You play as Robert, a.k.a. Mecha Man, a superhero who...
Flamecraft – Cute Little Dragons Invade Your Tabletop
These dragons aren’t just adorable, they’re industrious In Flamecraft, you oversee a village where dragonish artisans pry their trades. It’s a...
The Puzzled Patron
I'm doing a little bit of a different take on the "fantasy board game" theme this week. This is a puzzle, but one whose artwork speaks directly...
Incoming Transmission: Space Stations Are Hard Enough to Fix…
If only the antenna wasn’t the first thing broken. Incoming Transmission is a co-op puzzle game wherein a team tries to complete a set of repairs to...
Whispers of a Machine
An inventive puzzle game with a “killer” plot…PLUS cyber tools One of my guilty pleasures is the murder mystery. One or more people are dead. We...
Dice Throne – A cool adventure…or “Yahtzee with hitpoints”
Dice Throne is a fantasy combat game that, boiled down to its core, is “Yahtzee with hitpoints.” Each custom hero comes with their own playing board...
Want to hear my dream plot for “Starcraft 3”?
Who is ready for the next Starcraft game? I dreamt I wrote it.. I never really went through a fanfic stage as a writer. Apparently, as author origin...
EarthBreak: Omega Protocol – Finally…a mystery game for the SciFi crowd
Experience a next level whodunnit mystery with aliens, AI, and a paranoid band of human survivors. EarthBreak: Omega Protocol is a mystery puzzle...
Truberbrook: Twin Peaks meets Fringe
Truberbrook is a point-and-click mystery game set in a quaint little town in the mountains of Germany. And by quaint, I mean batshit crazy. It’s an...
It’s like D&D without the D&D
If you’ve never played D&D but always been intrigued by the concept, Lord’s of Waterdeep is a great tabletop board game to get you a taste. Set...
You Like Weird Games, Right?
Point & click mysteries are a guilty pleasure. They’re cooperative, so my wife and I don’t need to be opponents. They’re not timed, so they’re...
Boss Monster
Tired of Good Always Winning? Boss Monster is a game where you are the evil ruler of a stereotypical fantasy dungeon. You preside over a lair...
The Only Fun Pandemics
The two classic responses to crises are avoidance and action. If you don’t want to hear any more about rampant diseases and what to do about them,...
Heroes are More than Tavern Brawls
If you're a fan of board games, there's a good chance you've at least heard of Red Dragon Inn, even if you haven't played it. Well, that...
Firefly: You can’t take this board game from me
I've never made a secret of Firefly being one of the main inspirations of my Black Ocean universe. And when it comes to themed board games, there...
Seasons: more than just awesome dice
Today I want to talk about a wonderfully whimsical game called Seasons. It is high fantasy in a vacuum. It is a myth without context, or any attempt...
Race for the Galaxy
The game I'll never get sick of I play a lot of board games. I love sci-fi. Where the two of these passions best overlap is a board game called Race...
Stellaris
I'm battling cyborgs, building Dyson spheres, and corrupting primitive societies with advanced tech... I can't be the only gamer around here, can I?...
Games and Why We Play Them
Games are a recurring theme in Firehurler. I used them for a number of purposes. First of all, it is a normal part of people's lives. Not all...