Cards on the table: despite my affection for Sami Laakso’s Peacemakers: Horrors of War and Dale of Merchants, I still can’t get into Lands of Galzyr, the open-world adventure game he co-designed with Jesús Delgado. Not for a lack of trying. To date, I’ve played this thing one dozen times, mostly with my ten-year-old daughter, who, by the way, recently declared it her favorite board game of all time.

So believe me when I tell you, I’ve tried to like Lands of Galzyr. And tried. And tried.

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