Some games are easy to explain. You sit down, draw some cards, move some pieces, and before long everyone understands what they are supposed to be doing. Then there are games like Trials of Maya. The first thing you notice is the amount of stuff happening in the box. There are characters, cards, abilities, boards, tokens, towers, minions, and enough possibilities that you can spend a fair amount of time just looking at everything before you start playing. But once you get past that first...

Mischief was sent to me as a close-to-finished prototype to review. The game is actually at Spiel Essen '24 where I am this week. It is...

Clans of Midgard from Grey Fox Games is another game sent to me by the publisher and set in the same fantasy viking universe as their...