As a player of board games, there’s always the sneaking suspicion that all we’re doing is playing with toys. Then along comes a game like Clint Bohaty’s Necromolds to confirm it.

Necromolds is the sort of thing one might have seen on television in the ’90s, likely in the breaks between Saturday morning cartoons, full of children breathlessly enthusing about action figures or slime or the latest gimmick board game. Coincidentally, Necromolds is all of those things at once. This is a game about assembling monsters from clay, smashing them against your buddy’s monsters, and then literally smashing them with a ring. Their disintegrated forms then function as impassable terrain. It’s cool as hell.

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