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A giant gelatinous alien is attacking our town! And I guess we have to defend it by collecting samples of the creature? 😊 Attack of the Jelly Monster is 3-5 player game where each of the players tries to collect as much jelly as he can by throwing dice. Main mechanics of the game are dice rolling and worker placement, but all of this is happening simultaneously with all players in real time!!! The game is played in four rounds. In each round all players simultaneously   repeat rolling all of their (remaining) dice and then either placing or not placing a die to a district. When placing a die you may immediately resolve its effect (discarding any die in district to center or move a slider one space). After any one player places his last die he may flip the hourglass and/or lock a district. When the hourglass runs out the round ends and the scoring happens. Multiples of the same color on same district are ignored, then you compare dice totals for each district and playe...

Attack of the Jelly Monster comes in a fairly small box, approximately the size of a codenames box along its longer side. The game itself is on the somewhat cheaper side so you don’t really expect a full size box. Let’s see what you get inside! When opening the box you see a humble amount of components, what you get are: a stack of punch-out boards, a package of cardboard cut-out’s, a polybag with a 5 set’s of player dice, a polybag with a set of “sliders”, a hourglass and two additional polybags. The dice are typical six sided player dice 7 of them in each of 5 different colors, since this game is based on rolling dice I would have expect them to be a bit more rounded, we will see how they roll. Punching out this pieces what you immediately notice is the thinness of the cardboard, At least the pieces that represent the map could have been made from thicker material. When everything is punched out what you get are 11 map tiles, a turn counter and two types of tok...

Wasteland express delivery service comes in what you would call a big box, not a standard boardgame big box but almost twice as thick. When picking it up you can immediately notice it's weight and that there is not a lot of air in this box… so… let's open it up 😊 When you first open it you see rules, and underneath them is a fat stack of cardboard and a lot of plastic inserts, and since the box is really not oversized the inserts aren’t empty even at this point. Just seeing these inserts makes your inner OCD jump up in joy. Opening the cardboard stack you see 14 good quality punch out boards. As I said not all the inserts are empty inside one of them are two stacks of cards and one polybag of playing dice, inside another is a small bunch of plastic minnies. Cards when opened are a bit thin for my taste, I personally prefer MTG card thickness, and this is more on the lines of Legendary. The dice are beautifully carved and are a bit on the edgy side, but ...

Lately we've had the opportunity to play a bunch of quality co-op titles. One of these is „Lovers in dangerous spacetime“. Like many others, Lovers was made solely for co-op, which is why it shines. There was a time of co-ops in which a better player could practically monopolize the game while others were just following. In Lovers each player is important and without each player it is impossible to pass the level. In Lovers, 2-4 friends will take on the role of sweet little astronauts who control a spacecraft. The ship is made in cross-section (the game is 2D) to see the main functions of the ship: weapons, steering wheel, shield etc. Each player can of course control only one of the functions at the time, and there are more functions. Here, of course, the genius of the game comes to the fore. Although some functions such as a steering wheel and a shield may be operated by one player not to move from place to place, in order to effectively use weapons (a total of 4 weapons, one on ...