To begin with, it’s a good game. The first edition of Great Western Trail has been highly reviewed and rated by the hobby game community, as demonstrated by the game’s scores and activity on BoardGameGeek.
The second edition comes with not only improvements to the game’s strategic balance, but a bunch of other goodies to add variety to repeated plays.
There was a time where board games were used almost strictly for promotional purposes. When a publisher put out a board game for, say, PAC-MAN, o...
Something *really* exciting happened recently in the board game hobby. The Witcher, one of fantasy’s hottest properties, had a blazingly successful international crowdfunding campaign to realize a new board game. And, wow, it looks like an amazing game, too. The graphics and components are beautiful, the scope of the stories it tells are epic, and the rules look captivatingly challenging.
If you feel left out of the loop, though, fear not, we’re here to catch you up. Here’s 7 things you need to know about The Witcher: Old World.
The final chapter of the Century games is due! This winter, the sixth and final game in the Century series, called An Endless World, will arrive. Fans of these light strategy games can finally complete their collection. But why are there so many of them? Find out about this popular series now!
Wanna try a legacy game, but don't want to destroy your game while playing it? Check out My City, a game that's easy, affordable, and has an "eternal" mode that plays like a regular board game.
Board game luminary Wingspan gets its first mechanical expansion! In addition to beautiful new bird cards, the Oceania Expansion also introduces a new resource: Nectar. This potent asset works with the other types of food in the game, and opens up new strategic possibilities for an already excellent game. Check out what else is new in Wingspan’s Oceania Expansion!
How big is your brain? Maybe you did well at university, but can you run a university? Alma Mater is a worker placement strategy game where players are headmasters in a Renaissance school of higher learning. Manage your income, hire professors and attract students for big points!
Are you ready to get spooky? Spoopy skeletons, ghastly ghosts, and memorable monsters let us confront our innate thanatophobia in a fun way! And Level One has all these monsters and more. Let’s talk about some of the best Halloween board games Level One Game Shop has to offer.
Tiny Towns is the definition of a family game. Easy to teach? Check. Easy to play? Check. Plays quickly? Check. Plays the whole family? Check! And with gorgeous family-friend art and lots of awesome little building pieces to collect, Tiny Towns is a great way for a family to have fun together.
Who would want these gross games? Only low-down, dirty liars and filthy cheaters, that’s who. Cockroach Poker and Cheating Moths are two new, disgusting card games at Level One. The only way to win these games is to lie to your friends’ faces and cheat before their eyes. What a disgusting pair!
Now this is how you make a good theme game! Splendor is already a standout in the hobby, so let’s put a super exciting theme on it. Instead of chasing gems and Renaissance nobles, in Splendor Marvel we chase Infinity Stones to defeat Thanos. Easy to learn, quick to play, and you get to save the multiverse before bedtime!
We at Level One Game Shop are proud of the huge selection of games we have on hand. There are a lot of unique, interesting and fun experiences ava...