You’ll have heard people say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Well, a similar sentiment – if you’ll bear with this tenuous link for a moment – could be applied to tabletop games: “Never judge a game by the size of its box.” Yes, it’s likely that a big box is jam-packed with tokens, cards, player boards, more tokens, perhaps some miniatures, dice, tiny wooden cubes that you aren’t quite sure what to do with and, of course, even more tokens. However, there are plenty of smaller games that offer a rich experience which defies the size of the box.
Think of publishers like Oink Games, with quirky entries like Dropolter, or Button Shy with its wealth of wallet games that literally fit in your pocket. They punch well…
