Countdown to Gen Con Online: 30-21

The days are going by fast! We're making our final Gen Con gear selections and browsing the events as we continue to countdown to Gen Con Online. Our daily posting engine is running dangerously low on fuel, but we're doing our best to finish strong! We may still post daily on Instagram once the Countdown is over, but we'll probably focus again on our game collection and what we've recently played instead of posting a unique game everyday.

Games Featured:

• Day 30: Chai

• Day 29: Quarto

• Day 28: Keyflower

• Day 27: Imperial Settlers

• Day 26: Champions of Midgard

• Day 25: Man Muss Auch Gönnen Können

• Day 24: Villagers

• Day 23: Parks

• Day 22: Teotihuacan: City of Gods

• Day 21: Istanbul: The Dice Game

We appreciate games presenting new themes, like in Chai and Parks. Games with unique themes can also be great ways to introduce our hobby to people who may be unfamiliar, or apprehensive. Have a friend that loves tea? They probably have no idea there's a board game about it. The art in Parks is so delightful, it's easy to convince someone to spend some time playing a game with such wonderful designs.

Imperial Settlers almost sounds like a parody of the standard theme for so many board games, but it's so well done that we can't hold anything against this one. We originally played in on Tabletop Simulator, and almost immediately bought a copy from our local game store. We'll likely do the same with Istanbul Dice and MMAGK, which has the much-less exciting name of Divvy Dice here in the U.S.

Champions of Midgard, Keyflower, Teotihuacan, and Villagers were all games that we loaded just to browse through the cards and pieces. We've enjoyed being able to sift through components as we decide what to learn next. Before, we would be limited by the number of games we wanted to buy. Now, we're limited by how much we can learn and play.