The abstract tree growing and harvesting game from Blue Orange is not something that I would have normally picked up. It’s a game about growning trees. Every once in a while I find a game that is outside my normal fare (pirates, Cthulhu, space conquest, fantasy combat) that I find fun and fresh. Photosythensis is in this club.
Boss Monster is a card game where the players take the roll of a villian from an 8 bit side scroller video game. You build a dungeon with monsters and traps. You lure adventurers into your lair and hopefully they expire before reading your chamber. The first to collect 20 souls wins If you get hit with 5 wounds from adventures who proved too hearty to sucumb to your designs you lose. This is an easy game to learn/play. You setup by taking a monster, five room cards and two spell cards. You then display adeventurers (one per player) and …
This review is spoiler-free and all examples and discussions related to game material are entirely made-up. Mythos Tales is an investigation mystery game for one or more people. The player reads an opening story and then decides where to go and who to talk to next. As you read more stories and meet more people, learn about places, find items, and witness happenings you will investigate further until you have enough information to answer the questions at the end of the story or you run out of time. You then use your notes and memory to answer questions for points …