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Meople News: Age of Dread
Cranio Creations Cranio Creations will bring Microworld to Essen, a quick strategy game for two players. One player controls invading[…]
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Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot
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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Meople News: Alone on a German Tram
Galakta Stealing the crown jewels is only half the plan, getting out of the city with them afterwards is just[…]
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Tokaido – Collectors’ Edition
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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Meople News: Undercover in the sun
Alderac Mystic Vale, Alderac’s “card crafting” game – a game where you overlay cards with transparent parts to create the[…]
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A Game of Gnomes
Every year Fragor Games releases one game, designed by the Lamont brothers and produced with ridiculously pretty ceramic miniatures. Last year, that game was A Game of Gnomes. It’s what it says on the box: a game, and about gnomes. Except the title and some puns in the rule book, it has nothing to do with that other A Game of …. Something that everyone is talking about, but it has a lot to do with mushrooms. And it has the largest single component in any game we have here at the Meeple Cave.
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Meople News: Carrot Garden Gods
Capsicum Games Capsicum Games will bring a clever, little card laying game named Noxford to Essen. The cards represent districts[…]
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Meople News: Hop and Rip
Lautapelit.fi With Dokmus Lautapelit.fi have a very interesting area control game coming. The players explore the island of Dokmus, home[…]
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Among Nobles
Building a dynasty of nobles, how much drier can the concept of a game possibly sound. Have children, marry them to other families, repeat until rich and and famous. I was happy to find out that this prejudice was dead wrong. Despite its theme, Among Nobles is anything but dry, it has a great balance of simple rules, strategic decision and player interaction.
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