Captain Tsubasa
Anyone watched this as a kid?
Ra – 2025 Japanese edition
Take a peek at the 2025 Japanese edition Ra, a miniaturised version of the original.
Thailand Board Game Show 2025: Quick Takes Part 2
More stuff I saw in Thailand
Shogun
Shogun is a rare breed among German games from the 2000’s, heavily featuring warfare.
Rumble Nation
This game is about getting ready to rumble, and not the rumbling itself. You deploy troops for war in medieval Japan, and victory will be determined by how well you deploy.
Cat & Chocolate
A horror theme party game from Japan and a 2010 award winner.
Olenon
A clever partnership climbing game from Japan
17: Diciassette
A clever little card game from Japan which uses a mechanism that I too use in two of my games.
Asian Games: River Woods, Nightmares of Sushi, TOPPEN, Flow, Wire
Some more Asian games I tried at the Asian Board Games Festival in Penang.
Asian Games: Jom Burger, Card Bullet Reload, Fly-A-Way
Here are some Asian games I played at ABGF MY 2025.
Let’s Go! To Japan
When your boardgame includes a travel brochure!
Shogi
Let’s do something a little different. Let’s play a game first released in 1587 not through Kickstarter.
Tiger & Dragon
A clever shedding game which you might be able to con grandma into playing by saying it’s based on a traditional game of some obscure Asian culture.
Rainbow
Don’t trust the unicorn. This is not a cutesy card game. This in an interesting game from Japan where the cards you play to score points in the current round in turn become the points for the next round.
Panda Panda
It seems I can’t get enough of clever little card games from Japan. Here’s another one.
Isn’t this just a relaxed daily life? （てか、ただのゆるい日常じゃないですか!）
A quirky little card game from Japan, found at Don Quijote (i.e. the original Don Don Donki).
Seven Vice
Commit all the sins, or be proudly committed to one sin, in this microgame from Japan.
ito
A popular cooperative party game from Japan that will have you arguing which is better – Middle-Earth or Hogwarts.
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