Hiew's Boardgame Blog

Charge & Spark  is a 2 player microgame from Jelly Jelly Games, Japan. I have just played another game that sounds just like this, ...

Bahamut Dispute is a microgame from Japan. It is a 2 player game about two kings trying to defeat the other by setting a dragon on their op...

  Bombastic was first explained to me as advanced tic-tac-toe.  It is a two-player-only abstract game played using 9 tiles laid out face-dow...

Dionysia is a microgame from Buttonshy Games. So you know what to expect. A game with exactly 18 cards which comes in a wallet that fi...

Revolver Noir is a two-player 18-card game from ButtonShy Games. It’s an action thriller movie of a game, about two gunmen in a dark ho...

Leaping Lions was the winner of the 2023 Button Shy Games game design competition, designed by Darryl Tan, a fellow Malaysian. It is e...

Prowl: Clans & Cunning is a game from Singapore, designed by Russell Wee and published by Playlogue. It is a card game set in a f...

The Game Over the three days at the Asian Board Games Festival in Penang, I tried many games, but I only bought two. Coco Boom  from Ta...

This is a microgame. This was given away for free at the 2024 Essen game fair. I should call this a brochure game, because it was given...

King & Peasant is a game from local Malaysian designer Poon Jon. We got into game designing and publishing around the same time, about ...