Hi! This is Cate, Dan’s kid. I am ten years old and these are my ten favorite games.

#10. Wilmot’s Warehouse

In Wilmot’s Warehouse, you put out tiles and you try and remember the pictures for the end of the game. And you make up a story about it. I like this game because I like making up what the pictures on the tiles are about. At the end of the game, surprisingly, you get a lot of them right. My grandparents, at first they didn’t know what to expect. But pretty soon I noticed that they liked making up what the cards meant. Oh, and also, there are events that show up every round. Some events turn the board so all the tiles you need to remember are facing a different way. That makes it harder because I like to think that people make one part of the board the ground and the other part is the sky. Some games are just about remembering where things are, but in this game you get to make up a story about what the tiles show.

#9. Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

Sleeping Gods is about this airship that goes through a portal into a different world. There are two characters for each person and the pilot is shared for both. They go on adventures and complete quests and fight monsters. I think it’s really interesting because we get closer and closer to figuring out the truth and going back through the portal to our world.

I like the detailed monsters. Some are on cards and others are in the big book. What I think Sleeping Gods is mainly about is adventure and being in a different world, and there are other people in the game that don’t like us and we also have to kill them, so they’re considered monsters.

#8. Wyrmspan

Wyrmspan is about you raising dragons. And they have different abilities and types. Some of them are helpful, shy, or aggressive, and I like to put it that those are their emotions. What I like about this game is that you keep track of what the dragons give you, and also you need to buy the dragons with gold, food, and other tokens. There are different landscapes that the dragons live in, like caves, and some are lush and green like a forest. There is also a mountain. You can also get dragon eggs. The eggs are worth points at the end, but you can give them to baby dragons so that they can give you more materials.

#7. Thunder Road: Vendetta

I just barely played Thunder Road. It’s about these two colors of cars. They’re having this race, and they’re trying to beat each other in the race. There are two ways to win. The first way is to be the first one to be to the finish line. The other is to be the last one alive. The first way to blow up a car is by smashing them, where another car goes on top of your car and you roll these special dice for smashing and how far back or how far you move. Another way to try to kill a car is to shoot at them. You roll a shoot-dice and there are different types of cars, a big one, a medium one, and a small one. If you get that big, medium, or small car on your dice, you’re able to shoot at it. There are also dangers on the road that can kill you. There is mud that you must take two moves to move through, sand that is off-road, and there is fire and green waste and desert ice. When you smash a car, sometimes it can bonk into these obstacles that make your car immediately die.

What I liked about the game was that we needed to put more road on before the finish line, but any cars that are on the old road die because they’re too far behind. There are these things that damage your car. If you get two damages, your car shuts down until you roll a 6 on your die to repair it. There’s also a helicopter that can move to any space and you try to put it behind the other player’s car because the helicopter can drop bombs and shoot at that car, but the helicopter can only go on empty spaces with no cars on them.

#6. Spots

Spots gives you these dogs that need spots, so you try to fill in the dogs’ spots with dice. When you fill out a dog, you turn it over and that dog is done. You need to finish six dogs to win. There are these actions that have roll-a-dice, get-a-bone, get-a-treat, and I think one of them was roll-the-dice-you-buried-in-your-yard. You need to keep less than seven dice in your yard or you lose all the dice on your dogs. When that happens, that’s a sign you should probably re-roll all the dice in your yard more often.

What I like about this game is that you roll dice, try to match up with the spots on your dog, and the cute little names that the dogs are called.

#5. Final Girl

Final Girl is about this one girl who tries to save her family, random people, people at a restaurant, or sick people in a hospital from this monster. And every game has a different monster in it, and there are so many different final girls. There’s one with Mrs. Claus, there’s a girl fighting an alien that transforms into this death-killer machine, another fights a baby monster that grows to a full-grown alien. You need to save people in the space ship or whatever environment you’re in.

How to save them from the monster: First, you need to pick up people before the monster gets to them, and then you carry them to this opening to get out of the landscape. But saving people is not all there is. You also need to defeat the monster. So it’s also a risk if you’re low on hit points and your stamina is low. How to kill the monster: There are these cool weapons you can use, and they show how much damage they do, and at the end of when the monster is about to be defeated, you flip this token that shows if the monster is dead or maybe it has one more heart. And you have hearts too. So you also need to use a shield or go out of the room before it’s the monster’s turn so you don’t die yourself.

My favorite part was to see the monster’s evolution and their new powers. I also really like the good art.

#4. Return to Dark Tower

In Return to Dark Tower, there’s this huge tower in the middle of the game board, and it talks and throws skulls out the bottom, it opens windows, and it’s so creepy! Inside it is glowing red. At least when it’s turned on. In Return to Dark Tower, it says “return” because you’ve been there before but need to defeat the dark tower again. On the way to defeating the evil dark tower, you need to defeat monsters around it and finish quests. If you get too many skulls in one piece of land, then that place dies, so you need to defeat all the monsters and stop the evil tower.

My favorite thing is to see all those funny little skulls popping up everywhere. They just flick out of the tower. They’re kind of funny, actually.

#3. Crossbows & Catapults

You get to build your own little towers with these blocks. And you can build it however you want, but it has to have every piece. And you have to have a door, a jail, and the balconies. So in the game, you unwind these catapults and weapons and try to knock down each other’s towers. However, the towers can be stabilized with these shields that you can put all over to protect it from being knocked over. And you have these characters and a general. The general is the most important piece. If your general dies from the tower knocking over or crossbows or catapults hitting it, you only get two cards instead of three.

What I like about this game is firing the weapons and the catapults and the ballista and the trebuchet. There are different discs that you can fire. Some are red, just ordinary discs, some are black, which offer special actions. And the last disc is golden. The golden disc is a mean way to win fast. If you fire the golden disc and it kills the general, then you automatically win. The better way to win is to kill all the other characters.

#2. Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall

There are these things called Starless Nights. They bring monsters to the land. Anyone who is not in their safe home just vanishes. So that’s where you come in. You are these heroes that can go on adventures, and they solve mysteries and slay monsters. There are many different types of monsters, and twenty-one levels. Some of the levels are side-quests, which don’t move the clock on. And there are different landscapes that you need to explore and where monsters live, and you can choose what you want the game to be like, which paths to go on.

Me and my Dad play together and he said that if one of us dies, then that’s really bad. You draw these tokens from a black bag. They show many different turns. Some turns are for you and your friend, others are for the monster’s turn. When you draw a token in battle with your picture on it, you need to show a card out of your hand that attacks the monster. Now, there are many different attacks. Some characters have bow-and-arrows, or just normal swords, or Daddy has a violin or something. His songs are really annoying! Ranged attacks are shot from the bow and arrow. For swords, you have to move up in front of the monster to attack. And there are these lanterns you use. You get to draw seven cards at the start of the battle. When you run out of those cards, all of them are discarded, you need to draw seven more, and your lantern is charged. Your lantern is a special attack you can use. My lantern is a snipe that deals seven damage to a monster.

My favorite part is all the adventures and quests you go on. On the way, you find a new town or landscape. I liked all the detailed monsters and pictures. Even the pictures of the humans are really good.

#1. Lands of Galzyr

Lands of Galzyr is about these animals. Mine is a frilled lizard. His name is Mor. There’s this big map of the world you explore, the land of Galzyr, and you get all these really good quests, you make friends. Lands of Galzyr is also played on your phone. There’s still a game board in a box, but a lot of the cards and quests are on the phone. And there are so many countless quests that you go on, there are big numbers of them. There aren’t many monsters; I’m not sure if you can ever die in Lands of Galzyr. There aren’t hit points in it. But during the adventure, you do face bad animals and kidnappers and stuff. Some of the quests are looking at stars, some are really big fun adventures for your character and someone else, and some are just ordinary human life. Some are about starting fires, stopping other bad animals, stuff like that.

My favorite part of the game is all the cool animals there are in it. From frilled lizards to talking cats. And that’s it!

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