Board Game Arena

I for one don't understand why a deleted Username cannot be reused and why there are so many accounts on here that have been created and never played on. If an account has been inactive for a certain period of time it should automatically be deleted. I disagree. Accounts should never be deleted unl...

You have a severe case of negativity bias:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

It is my understanding that arena tries to match you into games based on skill level. However, I keep getting matched against opponents who have significantly lower arena rank and elo than me. For reference, in Azul I am currently Elite with 1793 points with 574 elo. I constantly get matched agains...

There are several chess like games but volto was the first I played in which players pieces were hidden. I liked that aspect. It also has a weird set of rules in which some pieces can’t capture and you can lose for capturing certain pieces. Kind of makes it a bluff game. I only played once and didn...

I agree with you on envelopes of cash. The theme alone sold me but the gameplay was great as well. There aren’t too many games here that I care about the theme and some are overdone so this was refreshing. This game has been here for about a year and I never came across it. Stockpile wasn’t as good...

As others have said, I definitely agree with the review of Sea Salt & Paper. I have 29 plays since 29 Dec. and really enjoy the game. So it's good to know that we have similar tastes for some things (like Sky Team and Wingspan) which will help me use your reviews for recommendations. My recomme...

As my christmas activity, I wanted to play all advent calendar games and write some impressions to figure out which ones I want to buy or recommend to others, so I figured I might as well post that result for all of you :) This is quite an impressive review! Thank you for doing this and sharing :D ...

Nice review. Seems like you put a lot of work into it. Agreements: Daybreak, Pook, Meglomania, lets catch a lion, turing machine, forest shuffle, wizard, bang, gift of tulips,24/7, ticket gagnat, bag of chips Major Disagreements: Diceathlon. It isn't fantastic but I think it is a decent dice game. ...

I think my overall biggest surprise was Sea, Salt & Paper considering what a small card game that is and the interactions it allows for. Really looking forward to that arriving to play with friends! Yeah, I've been playing that one as well, since it came through beta I think and it's pretty goo...

I would be really curious to know which games flew under the radar and you put on your todo list now! I just hadn't really paid that much attention to the calendar this time around - I think I had a busy December, so I didn't go and look at the games beyond just opening the gift each day (and even ...