Popcorn Game Review

Maybe you’ve heard: the movie business is really, really struggling right now. (And I’m doing you a favor by only sharing one link; I read about the movie business every day, so I could send you dozens more themed around the same problems.)

The struggles of the film industry haven’t stopped me from seeing a movie or two in theaters each month, and in my heyday, I saw one or two movies a week. To honor the end of my mass-market movie attendance, I saw 160 movies in theaters in 2013, the year before my first child was born.

In other words, I am absolutely the target audience for the new board game Popcorn (2025, IELLO), a movie-themed bag-builder for 2-4 players. No one I know loves the theater experience like I do. I play board games 3-5 days per week. I have enjoyed a number of games from the IELLO catalog, such as Khora: Rise of an Empire, Ancient Knowledge, King of Tokyo, and Guilty: Houston 2015. Orléans, the best-known game that uses a bag-building mechanic, is a game I love so much that I wrote an article about it for our “Orléans: Games We Love” series.

Popcorn should have been a home run. It absolutely was not.

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