Colorblind Games

"We are really trying to make all our games highly accessible." - Milan Zivkovic ROVE: Results-Oriented Versatile Explorer is a spatial puzzle game designed by Dustin Dobson and Milan Zivkovic, with art by Dustin Dobson and rules editing by Michael Lee. ROVE is the newest release from Button Shy Games, a publisher known for packing … Continue reading Colorblind Review: ROVE

Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball. Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade, designed by Geoff Engelstein and published by WizKids, takes players to a Roll-and-Write pinball arcade complete with flippers and bumpers, spinners and targets, nudges and tilts. The game is easy to play solo or multiplayer, and I found it quite … Continue reading Colorblind Review: Super-Skill Pinball 4-Cade

"To plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow." ver·dant /ˈvərdnt/ adjective Of the bright green color of lush grass. Leafy. Flourishing. Like nature itself, games based on the great outdoors can sometimes be difficult for colorblind gamers to navigate. As a reviewer focused on color vision, and colorblind myself, I approach a game like … Continue reading Colorblind Preview: Verdant

I've been made! In 1-2-3 Cheese! - designed by Ta-Te Wu, art by Shenanjegans, and published by Sunrise Tornado Game Studio - players are a group of mice who have been caught in the middle of a cheese heist. To escape, each mouse must abandon their burglaring associates by dropping as much cheese as possible … Continue reading Colorblind Preview: 1-2-3 Cheese!

Welcome to your own boba tea shop! Boba Mahjong, designed by Ta-Te Wu and published by Sunrise Tornado Game Studio, is a 2-player rummy-style card game with a clever scoring system and beautiful art by fuwa. Each player collects ingredients to make their boba drink and then earns points based on its freshness, smoothness, complexity, … Continue reading Colorblind Preview: Boba Mahjong

For me, 1980s buffets in the Midwest U.S. included Pizza Hut, Golden Corral, and Ryan's. The goal? Eat a sickening amount of mediocre food to "get the most for your money," including that second trip to the ice cream machine. Scoffton captures the disgusting nostalgia of the all-you-can-eat restaurants of yesteryear. Designed by Marcus Finlay … Continue reading Colorblind Review: Scoffton

Stuck in the Middle With You Some of my favorite music moments are award show performances that combined two seemingly unrelated artists: Aerosmith and Run-DMC, Jay-Z and Coldplay, Elton John and Eminem. Stonemaier Games and Bezier Games captured similar magic with Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, a mashup of Stonemaier's Between Two Cities … Continue reading Colorblind Review: Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig

Flower Power Tussie Mussie, designed Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Button Shy Games, is an 18-card, I-cut-you-choose game set in Victorian England. It continues the Button Shy model of clever game mechanics that fit in your pocket, and within those design constraints it's also colorblind friendly! Accessibility Tussie Mussie uses double-coding to provide a second … Continue reading Colorblind Review: Tussie Mussie