End of Year This was a long year for me, spending most of my time working on Winds of the North, editing the text (and it’s quite a lot of text) then rebuilding the graphics and layout. I’ve recently been working on the cover in hopes that I can survive without hiring someone. So, while…
My friend suggested I rank the games new to me in 2025 and post them, so here they are! I was hoping there’d be enough to do a top 10 of 2025 releases, but there weren’t quite enough (I think I played 8 or so from 2025, and I didn’t enjoy Arydia very much, so…
This will be the last big catch up before the annual End of Year wrap-up and new Top 100, so there’s a lot to go through! La Granja My friend and I had played this before on BGA, so we were looking forward to playing the physical copy. However, something about it was… less fun…
There is a much more reasonable number of games this time, in part due to our Earthborne Rangers campaign, which has taken up our gameday several times already. This time, there’s a mix of new and returning games and a couple of RPGs! There were definitely a couple of games that were a surprise (good…
It’s been quite some time since I last posted an update on Winds of the North. Some of you reading this might not even know what it is! What is it? Winds of the North is my upcoming solitaire gamebook set in Viking Age Scandinavia. It’s a huge sandbox game with lots to do like…
I’m trying to keep more caught up so there isn’t a giant backlog to go through. I think, given how much gaming we’ve gotten in this year, I might have to do this once a month! At least my solo gaming has been a bit quiet lately, so fewer of those this time, also making…
Whoops. It’s been a lot longer than I realized. There’s a LOT of catching up to do. Top 100 For those who haven’t seen, I updated my Top 100 games (read here). It was a lot of work, especially since I wasn’t happy with the initial results and re-did the Pub Meeple ranking (which takes…
End of Year It’s been a good year; well, for me, anyway. Thanks to The Dungeon Dive’s review of The Unseen World, sales skyrocketed. The Unseen World is now a Gold Best Seller on DriveThruRPG and has sold over 500 copies, and more than half of those sales were thanks to the review. The money…
I’ve played Valheim several times, including a few times multiplayer. I didn’t finish every playthough, but most of them reached the end (the end being whatever was in the game at that time). I’ve found that my willingness to reach the end is largely impacted by how much I’m satisfied with my build projects. My…
Our gaming was cancelled this weekend, so here was a different game I played recently. Finally found some time to play some more Middle-earth CCG solo. I made a dwarf deck for a “2-deck game”, built around trying to gear up and slay a dragon (or two) and play some big point cards. Note, this…
Thomas P. King, author and game designer 