Rio Grande Games Carcassonne Reviews

Carcassonne is one of my favourite games to play and I only discovered it a year ago. We were on holiday with my in laws and my father in law is always in the know about strategy games so he got out Carcassonne to play. Well that was it, we got it for the Christmas and have been playing it ever since and here is why. Carcassonne is a ...  Read the complete review

Carcassonne is quick and easy to learn as there are few concepts to get the hang of, but it is difficult to master. We have played dozens of games, mainly two player. It works very well with two players which is quite rare as many games that claim to work with two are much better with more players. Carcassonne, however, has slightly different ...  Read the complete review

For me, board games are a great way of relaxing and having fun with friends or family. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy computer games too, but even the best multiplayer games don't have the same relaxed social interaction of board games, and Carcassonne is one of the better games out there. - Key Facts - Type of game: ...  Read the complete review

I'd never heard of this game, just spotted it in a shop one day and thought it looked like fun. I love 'world building' games like Civilisation and thought it sounded a bit like a simplified version of that so decided to give it a go. The basic idea of the game is to lay tiles along a river, creating (or discovering) the layout of the ...  Read the complete review

Carcassone is a tile based game for 2 to 5 players. The game begins with one tile being laid and the other tiles being shuffled and placed in a pile face down. The next player then picks a tile and lays it next to the original so that the features of both tiles match up. For example: if the first tile is the middle of a city, the second must be ...  Read the complete review

This is an old style game, played face to face round a table. No fancy graphics, no consoles, no avatars. Perhaps not the most promising idea for family entertainment in a digital age. Yet Carcassonne is actually strangely compelling - our family received it for Christmas and, after the first game, didn't want to stop playing. ...  Read the complete review