Medvedovski likened single-player board games of this style to deck-building games like Slay the Spire, a mechanically rich title with otherwise minimalistic moment-to-moment card-playing gameplay.

Some of the most fun we've ever had playing board games was on those nights we gathered all our friends around a table at someone's house and dove headlong into hours worth of board game fun as a ...

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