Manny Vega, the designer of the Sparkle Kitty series of games, has paired up with Cardboard Alchemy to take 1-5 players on a journey through a magical marketplace filled with sights, smells, and even dragons! These aren’t your typical “gather a horde and capture a damsel” dragons, however. They are smaller and friendlier than their…
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Way Too Many Cats: A Pawsitively Purr-fect Puzzle Game
Can you ever have too many cats? In the newest game from Weird Giraffe Games, currently on Kickstarter, we may well find out. Way Too Many Cats finds you and up to 5 other players taking on the roles of adoption agency managers doing their best to keep the felines in their care happy and…
Showing Some Love to the Ladies of Legend With Pirate Party: Women of the High Seas
Ahoy Mateys! Today is the day! Talk Like A Pirate Day has closed in fast on our stern and we here at The Cardboard Cantina are continuing our course with another pirate-themed review! We tip our hats to some of history’s finest this day with a game that pays tribute to the not-so-lacey lassies of…
Tiny Epic Pirates: Fathoms Of Replayability, But Buccaneers Beware
Batten down the hatches and get ready to set sail with the newest release from Gamelyn Games: Tiny Epic Pirates! This 1-4 player game propels players back to the golden age of piracy where players compete to sink merchant ships, steal booty, and bury treasure while dodging the Royal Navy’s ire. With a few safe…
Micro Dojo: Mental Mastery and Tactics in Historic Japan
The Shogun has issued an edict. In order to gain his favor and win the title of the local town, you and a rival will take on the roles of Daimyo (feudal lords in the Edo era) and compete to bring prosperity to its citizens. Micro Dojo is the first of what will hopefully be…
Lockup: Breakout: Digging Deeper Into The Kingdom of Nalos
If you love the game Lockup from Thunderworks Games, then get ready! Its first big expansion is here with Lockup: Breakout and it adds new depths both figuratively and literally to not only the game but to the Kingdom of Nalos itself. Players will discover the catacombs beneath Kulbak Prison offering them treasure, new ways…