Hiew's Boardgame Blog

I have been invited to showcase my games at Lolla Paluza Cafe in Taman Paramount, Petaling Jaya this coming Sunday. 

This is a civilisation themed game which uses an interesting card mechanism. Cards represent your technology and capability. You always...

  Happy Deepavali everyone! Although this is an Indian festival, it is celebrated by Malaysian of all races and religions. That's Malays...

In Botanicus  you are gardeners growing flowers in your own gardens. You have your own player board and you do your best to create the ...

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

The moment I started playing Ahoy , my first thought was this was Root at sea! However Ahoy  is by a different designer. It is from th...

Cartographers is a popular roll-and-write game. Every round a card is drawn, and everyone must fill their own player board following t...

Wandering Towers is a family game from the magnificent duo Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. This is a light strategy game. I woul...

In recent months my blog has been so full of screenshots of digital implementations of boardgames that it is looking more like a computer ga...