HeyJaredIlluminating Games
Chris’ analyses, opinions, rants, and observations about all things analog gaming.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 13
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- Sep 27, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Arcs: The Blighted Reach, Zombicide: Squid Game, For the Motherland!, Quick Takes (opens the original)
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I love the Arcs: The Blighted Reach campaign, but the last time I played was a year ago May. It’s just such a big undertaking. It’s “only” about 10 hours end-to-end which given the ease of breaking it up into two or three sittings is actually quite manageable on the scale of bigger games, but the intensity throughout is off the charts. There is so much going on, it can make your brain explode. I was looking over some things I wrote about it when I first played it, and the gist was “I found this
Thunder on the Mississippi, Baltic Empires, and more (opens the original)
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ASL Korea, Into the Machine, Bullet❤️, Blue Moon, Coast Watchers (opens the original)
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North Africa ‘40, Die Macher (2019), Watergate, Circle of Conflict: Lord of the Rings, Hanami (opens the original)
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Blue Moon, Star Wars DBG: Reinforcements, Mystic Vale (opens the original)
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