Category: Game Review

We love a good mystery here at Family Game Shelf. One of the best mystery games we’ve played is the Unsolved Case Files series. (You can read about Who Murdered Harmony Ashcroft here.) After playing our first one, we all agreed that we wanted to […]

Mix, Match, Score and Win 2 to 4 players ages 6 and up Qwirkle is a tile lying game with bright colours and fun patterns. I was immediately drawn to this game as we love games like Dominos, Carcassonne and Rummikub. I wasn’t wrong as […]

Think Fast before the blast…but don’t let the pressure get to you. 3 plus players ages 14 and up Pop Under Pressure is the latest word game that we’ve tested out. We love word games—games like Scattergories, Like Minds, our Daily News games and Listography—so […]

The picture guessing game 3 plus plays ages 8 and up I love Pictionary (it might be my favorite game of all) and when I came across the drawing game Up a Bit I knew I had to give it a try. We had all […]

Here at Family Game Shelf, we love Clue—the classic game, the movie, the junior version even the card game. So when they came out with the Clue Escape and Solve Mystery line of games, we knew we had to try it out! We were lucky […]

Are you a huge Disney Fan? Think you know all things Disney? Test your knowledge in the game Disney Color Brain. We love Disney in our house, and really, who doesn’t? So a Disney themed game? You know we’d love to try it. Disney Pictopia […]

The Chameleon is a game that is part word game and part who done it—two of our absolute favorite types of games. You know the types—Scattergories, Outburst, Codenames. We recently played this at a family gathering and we had so much fun that we have […]

The Card Game of Golf 2 to 6 players ages 8 and up Four! If you love playing golf then the card game Play Nine is for you. Golf was my Mom’s favorite pastime so we have lots of golf games—the card game, the dice […]

We have some big Potterheads here at Family Game Shelf. We already have reviews for Harry Potter Air Pictionary and Mystery at Hogwarts and we have the Harry Potter inspired games in our shop Wizard Scattergories and Wizard Taboo. So when we got a chance […]