Thunder & Thistle
Two highland weather spirits fight over a single valley with a shared tug-of-war track. Snappy, mean in the nicest way, and the reason Lea and Rike stayed until 1 a.m. last month.
Short take · reviewed 11 October 2026
Thursday night, every week since 2018
Honest board game reviews from a very loud kitchen table.
We are Jonas, Lea and a handful of friends in Leipzig who have played a game together almost every Thursday for eight years. This is where we write down what we loved, what fell flat, and who ate the last pretzel.
- 398game nights so far
- 30games reviewed
- 1cat who sits on the board
Game of the week · week 44
Signal Fires
“The first co-op in years that our loudest player could not run on his own.” — Lea
A chain of mountain beacons, one long winter night, and a hand of cards you hold facing outwards so everyone can see them except you. We have played it fourteen times since spring and it fixed a problem our group has had since 2018. Read why it is our favourite co-op on the shelf right now.
What should we play tonight?
Tell us how many of you there are and how long you have got. We will pull something off our shelf. It is the same thing we do every Thursday, just with less arguing.
Your suggestion will land here.
Pick your options and press the button. Press it again if you do not like the answer. We will not tell anyone.
Freshly reviewed
The newest additions to the shelf, most recent first.
Night Moth Garden
Plant night-blooming flowers to lure rare moths into your garden. The card art glows a little under a lamp and that alone sold Yasmin a copy.
Short take · reviewed 12 July 2026
Starling Choir
Play notes in silence to build a song the whole flock agrees on. Twenty quiet minutes that end with everybody shouting about what they meant.
Short take · reviewed 17 May 2026
Sunken Bazaar
Divers haul up treasure from a drowned market and auction it off with a once-around bid that rewards nerve. Best at five, chaotic at six, fine at three.
Short take · reviewed 8 February 2026
Comet Cartographers
Everyone charts the same comet on their own star map, and somehow nobody draws the same sky twice. Our most-played game of 2025 by a margin that is honestly embarrassing.
Read the full review →Hollow Pines
A twelve-chapter cooperative campaign about a forest village where the trees remember things. We finished it over a winter and still argue about the ending.
Short take · reviewed 8 June 2025
Guides for hosts
Overheard at the table
“I’m not losing, I’m building narrative tension.”