As the Family Gamers, we have a wide variety of games on our shelves. We feel that having variety in your collection is very important. But first, what we’ve been playing!

What We’ve Been Playing:

Let Them Eat Shrimp – by the fantastic Dr. Finn (of Herbaceous and The Little Flower Shop).

Deep Sea Adventure – we’ve found that the mechanics are as solid at 6 players as they are at 2 players. Definitely a favorite.

Tea Dragon Society – it’s available now! Expect a review within the next two weeks.

Bananagrams for the first time ever! (As we mentioned on Instagram) It’s a great word-building game that’s much more approachable than Scrabble.

Tzolk’in – Andrew loves this engine-building game

Kingdomino as a palate-cleanser after Tzolk’in. Love how speedy it is! (We reviewed Kingdomino about a year ago.)

Chupacabra: Survive the Night (from Steve Jackson Games and Haywire Group) – roll your dice for livestock and monsters. Use your chupacabra to eat your neighbor’s animals. Collect all the dice to win.

Monster Match (see our review) – the more we play this, the more we like it for mixed-age groups.

Machi Koro (with the Harbor expansion) – we used to like this a lot. Played a game on a whim and it went really long; almost 90 minutes.

Unreal Estate (from Grand Gamers Guild) – glad we’ve finally tried it!

Flash Point: Fire Rescue (Urban Structures) – we lost on the very last die roll.

Downforce – Anitra won for the first time ever. It’s such a fun game – see the review that Corey wrote.

Secrets – a hidden identity game. Not bad, but we had fun in spite of the game, not because of it.

Spaceteam – played this twice with some new friends. It’s so fast-paced that they seemed somewhat overwhelmed by the first play, but ready to try again. The whole game is over in 5 minutes. “like Pit, but co-op.”

Ancestree (see our review) – still love it.

Super Kitty Bug Slap – Claire’s favorite speed-matching game.

Sushi Go Party – we tried new combinations we hadn’t tried before. The “spoon” card lets you steal a specific card from someone else’s hand, a little bit like Go Fish.

Century: Golem Edition (check out Nick’s Century: Spice Road review) – it’s easy to understand, with very straightforward mechanics.