Review: Personally Incorrect

Players: 5-10
Time: Variable
Recommend Ages: 18+

My sister-in-law gave this game to our freshly turned 18 sibling. Little did we know what this little box held.

Personally Incorrect is a crass, delightful game that works best when you have similarly inappropriate minds working to the common goal of insulting one another. The play is very similar to Cards Against Humanity – a card is read and then you submit your cards for judgement. The differences here are that it uses a voting system – the group decides not one person. Additionally the last vote doesn’t count. There’s no waiting to see if there are going to be ties to break up, you just vote.

I cannot describe in words just how crude the answers on this game are. If you’re squeamish around the words fart or butt – you’re probably going to want to sit this one out lest you learn a new set of vocabulary that you weren’t intending. How bad is it? It felt weird playing it with my in-laws kinda bad.

Despite the emphasis I put on how disturbing the cards were, I had a lot of fun playing this. The shock value of the cards mixed in with the right combination of players meant a great time was had by all.

Looking for more information, ask your local gaming venue!

The laminated game box is a Pandora’s box of hilarity

Game Review: Exploding Kittens

Disclaimer out the gate: This game has a really sick premise of blowing up kittens. Where2Game does not support any animal cruelty of any kind. In fact, we love kittens, especially with little bowties.

Age: 7+
Playing Time: 15 min
Players: 2-

A deck building game from the makers of The Oatmeal, the strategy is simple. Collect cats and avoid picking up the exploding kitten cards. If you pick it up, you can defuse the bomb and put it back in the pick up deck wherever you want. If you can’t defuse it, you’re out of the game.

It’s a simple premise and makes for a quick game.

Plus it has tacocat – he’s cute, delicious, and a palindrome!

For more information, see your local gaming venue!

Game Review: Star Fluxx

Age: 8+
Playing time: 10 min
Players: 2 to 6

Scotty, I am your father now beam me up and make it so. You may find this and other science-fiction (Sci-Fi) goodness in this small unassuming card game.

The Fluxx series is an ever changing game where you control the victory conditions. The most common victory is matching up assets you’ve collected through the game with goal cards you can play in your hands. How do you do that? By laying down a number of cards that make you win without playing cards that let your opponents win.

This is one of those games that has to be played to truly understood. There are so many different options of rules that it’s easier for any visual learners to see and hear. This game does involve a lot of reading so I’d recommend it for strong readers. If you’re not, it will certainly give you practice!

A very worn case of Star Fluxx

The starting rules for the game are simple. Draw 1 card, and play 1 card. As you play on, you’ll have opportunities to tweak the game, add rules, change the number of cards drawn, or played, change the goal of the game, or remove cards that stop you from winning (called Creepers).

An example of some of the cards in Star Flux. The cute fuzzy alien creature is one of my favourites.

This is another quick game that can go quickly with a small number of players. Perfect for convention wait times, killing time between flights, or wanting to frustrate your friends while humming about it just being a game.

Game Reviews: Dragon Slayer

Recommended Age: 6+
# of players: 2 to 5
Playing Time: 15 min

For the discerning adventurer who wants to slay dragons easily from the comfort of their home, there is Dragon Slayer. This game allows you to push your luck in attempting to defeat more dragons that your opponents. Push it too far and you’re dragon chow.

This game is easy to pick up and play. Great for conventions while you wait for others to show up, or for a quick game that needs little set up or take down.

See your friendly, local gaming venue for more information!

Dragon slaying dice

 

Game Review: Bears Versus Babies

Age: 14+
# of Players: 2 to 6 players
Game Length: 20 minutes

From the makers of Exploding Kittens comes Bears vs. Babies. Babies may seem cute and innocent, but in their core is a desire to ruin all humanity. Their ceaseless crying has driven humanity to manufacture all sorts of monsters in order to preserve themselves.

Bears vs. Babies is a card laying game where it’s up to you to create random and zany monsters to defend against the Baby armies that will be coming up against you by way of land, air, and sea. Play involves drawing or laying cards. If you get a card that with “baby” written anywhere on it, you place it into the appropriate legion. Once you feel you are strong enough, or you fear your opponent is getting too powerful, you can provoke one of the baby armies into a fight. If the sum of your monster is greater than their sum, the highest power army eats the babies for points. If the sum of the babies’ army is greater, than the monsters have been defeated and all corresponding armies are destroyed.

The combinations for this game are truly odd, but fit well with the storyline. It also comes with cards that are not safe for work (NSFW) that certainly ramp this game up to the 18+ plus crowd.

Great for killing time, I’d make this a play at least once to see how your Mantis Shrimp with fire coming out of nipples can handle the Sea Baby Army. (I strongly suggest the party hat.)

For more information or to purchase, please see your local gaming venue!