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 …
The Grizzled is a co-operative card game set in the trenches of World War I. This is not a combat game. The focus of this war game is to help each other survive the terrors of war and come out of the conflict alive. There are basically three “suits” and three values of cards and during play your group may only play at most two of any suit or value. The suits are weather related: Snow, Rain, Night. The values are: Shells, Gas, and Whistles. Each card has at least one set of suit and value; others have multiple of …
After playing several games of Legendary Encounter: Alien I was very excited to get time to sit down with Predator. The setup for Predator is a little more complicated since there’s really four different games in the box. There are two games where you play through each of the two movies trying to achieve objectives from the plot. In game one you have to find and eliminate the rebel camp, then set up a defensive position, and finally “Get to da Choppa” Game two is the plot of the second movie. The other two games put you in the same …
Steampunk Rally is a drafting/dice-rolling and placement/racing game from Roxley games. The main idea of the game is that you are a turn of the century inventor building a contraption to race other inventors around the Swiss Alps (or on a track in Paris.) You draft cards to get parts for your machine, dice to power your machine, or cogs to help repair your machine. You roll dice to see what part of the contraption you can activate. The contraptions moves along the track. Finally you check to see how much damage you take. It sounds like a lot of …
Machi Koro is a card/dice game that sets you up as a mayor of a tiny vIllage. You have a wheat field and a bakery and the townsfolk want you to build four things: a train station, a shopping mall, a radio tower and a theme park. Your one wheat field and bakery aren’t big enough revenue generators to accomplish this so you spend your turns rolling a die (or dice) to see which buildings in your town activate and then you buy a new building. When you generate and/or save enough cash you can build the required building. First …
The Red Dragon Inn series of games is a card game where the players are sitting around in an Inn drinking, gambling, and rough housing. If you drink too much, lose too much gold, or get too beat up you’re out! The last person standing wins. Number four is pirate themed. That’s an almost must buy for me. I wanted something fun and easy to play with the kids. There are four big box sets, each with four characters, and five single character expansions. The box contains: a deck of cards for each player a nice board you can …