Montage: First Take Game Review

If you’ve followed my content over the last 12-18 months, you know that I have been laser focused on covering older titles. Our partners at Eagle-Gryphon Games have a library of games so large and so varied that I usually start by making requests to their team to cover games that are a few years old, including recent gems such as Blockers!, Pastiche, and Florenza.

Another game on my list was Montage, for one simple reason: the game’s cover art looks like it was airlifted from a bad TV show in 1974. As it turned out, I was off by a year: Montage, published by Gryphon Games in 2011, is a game that was first released in 1973. Designed by Joli Quentin Kansil and developed by Eagle-Gryphon Games founder Rick Soued, Montage is something else…and that something else, for a specific audience, is a fantastic experience.

I recently convened my review crew for a first play of Montage, and I didn’t even want to wait for a third or fourth play to share my experience. Montage is incredible.

Ready, Set, Orange

Montage is a tough one to classify, but here’s what we will start with: Montage is a real-time, area majority spelling game for exactly four…

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