Mila Grish

Dedicated contributor at EIP Gaming and a part-time collector of books she will never have time to actually read. Jumps on the newest releases just as quickly as on the uncovered dusty collections from the basement. For her, shiny graphics can never be an excuse to not have a polished player experience or an immersive story.

Joined: October 30, 2019
Articles: 459
Comments: 111

gloomhaven singleplayer review reuniting iconic board game with its roots

ByMila Grish
OnOctober 27, 2021

Gloomhaven Singleplayer Review – Reuniting an Iconic Board Game with Its Roots

If you are a board game fan, you probably know about Gloomhaven: a video-game-inspired RPG experience packed in a heavy box full of dungeon tiles, cards, stickers, and battle tracking mechanisms, featuring multiple campaigns and hundreds of automated battles. Aside…

ByMila Grish
OnOctober 22, 2021
4 Comments

How to Survive in the Desert Biome – ICARUS

If you haven’t ventured outside of the Forest Biome after completing some starter missions, the Desert is a great place to start. The Desert Biome is somewhat of a middle ground between the plentiful Forest and the merciless Arctic. The…

ByMila Grish
OnOctober 13, 2021

How to Survive in the Arctic Biome – ICARUS

Cold and quiet. ICARUS’s snow biome is a deceptively calm place. First-time visitors, mesmerized by the otherworldly sights, are enticed to keep pressing in: they do not anticipate just how many things can go wrong quickly — very quickly. At…

desert beta moved, new release date, more changes to icarus beta roadmap

ByMila Grish
OnOctober 5, 2021
3 Comments

Desert Beta Moved, New Release Date, Other Changes to ICARUS Beta Roadmap

We are steadily approaching the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, and our pandemic fatigue makes it all too easy to forget that the virus is still very much present around the globe and is affecting our daily lives. One…

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 25, 2021

ICARUS How to Find Hidden Caves

Struggling to find a single cave after landing at the prospect site? Feeling exhausted, getting critically low on food and water after making two circles around the entire perimeter of your landing site? The bad news is, yes, you probably…

icarus beta #3 notes hardest weekend yet! the arctic biome unlocked

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 24, 2021
3 Comments

ICARUS Beta #3 Patch: Hardest Weekend Yet! The Arctic Biome Unlocked

You have to know that something is up when devs put together a guide to help you approach the new biome. Alright, guys, seems that last weekend was our chance to level up in preparation for what lies ahead: mammoths,…

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 21, 2021
8 Comments

Surviving Bears in ICARUS

ICARUS bears are fast, they are quiet, and it takes them at most three hits to kill you (even if you have meat, berries, fish, and a speed boost in your arsenal). Wolves will growl to warn you to back…

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 17, 2021
5 Comments

Beginner’s Guide to ICARUS

Pleasure to finally meet you, prospector. Perhaps you have stumbled upon this manual after experiencing some… unexpected troubles during your first weeks on Icarus. Or, maybe you are erring on the side of caution, wisely studying ahead of the dangerous…

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 14, 2021

What Dice Legacy Could Learn From Board Games

Board games come in so many flavors that saying “I am a big fan of board games” sounds just a little bit shallow. But, euro-style board games? Like, demanding resource management, maintenance of your holdings, conflict, drama, a sprinkle of…

weather won't be playing nice icarus's beta weekend #3, storms

ByMila Grish
OnSeptember 11, 2021
2 Comments

Weather Won’t Be Playing Nice: ICARUS’s Beta Weekend #2, “Storms”

See, at first, I thought I was the only one who got screwed this second Beta weekend: a newly joined player without the ability to build a shelter, spawned on the map with no water in sight. However, everyone’s progress…