Boardgame talk for Meeple & People
Mord im Arosa is a very, very unusual mystery game. There is no deduction element at all and neither are you supposed to hide your identity. Instead, the whole game is about listening where the clue cubes land in the tower when they are dropped in.
Unusual? Yes. Fun? Find out.
A bit late, but everything in here is fresh enough to be considered news. Sometimes, playing games all weekend just[…]
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Space is big. Big and empty. That’s what our science teachers told us. It’s also dead – and deadly – wrong. Wherever our exploration vessel shows up, nasty things are just waiting to blow us up. To get back in one piece, all players have to cooperate and deal with a tight time limit while the computer is yelling at them about everything going wrong.
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This week has a very special news item to start with: our first mention of Essen 2011! The Brazilian space[…]
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Welcome to the Wild West! You might not want to get to comfortable on your horse and take some cover behind that barrel there, the west is particularly wild today. Not only is everyone shooting everyone else, no one is even sure who is on their side. But in a real Western, that matters less than putting lead in the air, so get shooting.
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On March 12, White Goblin Games releases Get Nuts, the most squirrely card game in existence. Your goal is to[…]
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Caravelas takes you back to the age of exploration, when courageous men crossed the oceans in rather unsafe ways in search for wealth and glory.
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From Libellud, we’ll have another Dixit game this year: Dixit Odyssey, schedule for release in June. There is no specifics[…]
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Havana is a card game with some extra goodies. The goal is to restore the city of Havana to its pre-revolution glory. Action cards are a valuable resource because, once discarded, they only come back when you used them all. Turn order play a big role and is not easy to manage. And worst of all, it’s tied to the actions you can take.
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To start off this weeks news, here’s an update from last week: Mayfair Games’ Bill Fogarty took the time to[…]
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