Category: Reviews
“The Bar Has Been Set”
The Spiel did a lengthy—dare I say epic—review of Tempest as a world, a line, a toolbox, and a series of individual games. And it pleases me, as the developer, to see that they get the whole concept, tip to… Read More »
Courtier Reviewed in Dice Tower
Wherein Tom Vasel says various and sundry things like, “Wow, this is fun!” and “It’s fast, it’s easy to teach…” and “I like this game.” Check it out!
Love Letter One of the 10 Best
Matthew Baldwin of The Morning Post just named Love Letter one of the year’s 10 best in his annual Good Gift Games article!
Garrett’s Games on 3/4 of the Tempest Line
A fairly extensive review of Love Letter, Mercante, and Dominare in their most recent podcast.
Swooning Over Courtier
This Board Game Life has posted a lengthy and detailed review of Courtier, by Philip duBarry. “Courtier combined AEG’s Tempest world with Philip duBarry’s design skills which seemed like a natural win… and it was!” You can read the entire… Read More »
Love Letters
Love Letter was the belle of the ball at Essen, and as such has achieved the distinction of being well worth some good-natured mockery. For starters, blogger Martin G said, “There are so many ways this game shouldn’t work. It… Read More »
Love Letter’s First Award
A small, 500-copy print run of Love Letter was released at the 2012 Spring Game Market trade show in Japan, at which John Zinser and Mark Wootton were fortunate enough to stumble across it. At each of the biannual Game… Read More »
Board Game Geek Previews Love Letter
With a gratuitous discussion of whom Prince Arnaud of Temepst looks like. http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/12945/new-game-round-up-emanuele-ornella-self-publishes
Dominare Gets Its First Award
Although they consistently mispronounced the name, the fine gentlemen at This Board Game Life has nothing but good to say about Dominare, the epic game for the Tempest line, giving it a TBGL Gold Medal.





