Boardgame talk for Meeple & People
Some might find a game where one player is literally Hitler offensive. I’m not one of them, and I’m glad, because that would keep me from a great hidden identity game that has tiny bit more structure than other games in that genre. At least for me it makes a huge difference.
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The SPIEL in Essen is a special event for board gamers all over the world. Especially for us Europeans, of[…]
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Queen Games Queen Games will release an unusually constructive post-apocalyptic game. It’s not about scavenging, stealing from the other players[…]
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Funforge Keep the Great Old Ones out of our world? What would you do that for? Their power is too[…]
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Horrible Games It’s a famous movie scene, often repeated: there are goblets of wine on the table, one of which[…]
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Cranio Creations Cranio Creations will bring Microworld to Essen, a quick strategy game for two players. One player controls invading[…]
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Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Games are usually known for heavy games, but with Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot they ventured into family game territory. Here you wage sea battles by throwing a metric ton of dice into the game box and then using more or less improbable ship upgrades to fight. For family-friendliness, players don’t fight against one another but compete who can capture or sink the most non-player ships.
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Galakta Stealing the crown jewels is only half the plan, getting out of the city with them afterwards is just[…]
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Usually, when a game is about traveling a road, you win by arriving first at the destination. Of course racing is fun, but it’s not the only way to travel. Sometimes, going slowly and enjoying the trip is what you should be doing. Antoine Bauza’s Tokaido rewards that type of travel, here the winner is the player who had the richest experience along the way. That makes Tokaido very different from a racing game, and in the best way, too.
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Alderac Mystic Vale, Alderac’s “card crafting” game – a game where you overlay cards with transparent parts to create the[…]
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