June - 2021

Jun 30, 2021

Planet King in search of followers

El Rey Planeta is a 1-2 player card-driven game in which you play as King Philip IV of Spain. Your goal is to ensure the military, economic and diplomatic growth of your empire while also tending to matters of your personal family life. The game is available on pre-order from Phalanx Games' website and will get published if at least 300 people place an order. There are two types of cards in the game: Events and Characters. The Characters deck consists of Nobles (politicians a

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The Millennium War is live (Win the Millennium War)

Zerbique

Jun 30, 2021

The Millennium War is live (Win the Millennium War)

Update: The Millennium War has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 29 days. You may pledge for either the standees or the minis version of the game. Our preview post below was published on June 27. The Millennium War is a 1-4 players skirmish boss-battle game in which your heroes take part in an epic cosmic fight known as the Millennium War. It will launch on Kickstarter on June 29. In the co-op mode, you first pick four heroes (as in the competitive mode) a

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Athena

Jun 29, 2021

Velocity: Vanguard is live

Velocity: Vanguard is a 1-4 player sci-fi physics-based game which can be played cooperatively, competitively, or solo. As commander of a spaceship, your goal is to complete your mission as you navigate through the solar system. It is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 29 days. You may pledge for the core game, or also get the expansions, and, at the Deluxe tier, a large playmat. To play the game, you first consult the mission guide which includes co-op, solo a

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Zerbique

Jun 29, 2021

The Great Chase is live

The Great Chase is an action-management and dice rolling game for 1-6 players in which you try to solve plane crashes and pursue diplomatic missions around the world. The theme and the characters are inspired by the Miranda Chase series of books. The game is now live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 20 days. You may pledge for a standard or a Deluxe copy of the game, or choose the higher pledge tiers to collaborate with the designer. First, you pick a mission pack

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Zerbique

Jun 29, 2021

Line up for fantasy battles

Card Tactics is a pocket-sized solitaire tactical combat game set in a Fantasy world. You'll manage a squad of three heroes fighting against successive waves of monsters, with the goal of slaying the biggest and meanest of them all, the Dragon. You start by picking three heroes out of six. Heroes have an ongoing ability (a “quirk”) and skills, with each skill having a range and one or more effects. They also have different defense and maximum health stats. Then, you build the

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Wild Assent: Lavon Rising is live (Wild Assent rises again)

Athena

Jun 29, 2021

Wild Assent: Lavon Rising is live (Wild Assent rises again)

Update: Wild Assent: Lavon Rising has launched on Gamefound, and the campaign will run for 9 days. You may back the Wild Assent base game only, or Wild Assent and the Shadow of the Silvestrem expansion, or go all-in and get the base game and three expansions: Shadow of the Silvestrem, Lavon Rising, and Dangers of the Wilds. Our preview post below was published on June 26. Wild Assent: Lavon Rising is an expansion for the 1-4 player fantasy adventure game Wild Assent. The Game

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Villagers: Shifting Seasons is live (Villagers expanded)

Athena

Jun 29, 2021

Villagers: Shifting Seasons is live (Villagers expanded)

Update: Villagers: Shifting Seasons has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 23 days. You may back only the expansion, or get it together with the base game and previous expansion pack, or go all-in, and receive everything released for Villagers so far. Our preview post below was published on June 26. Shifting Seasons is an expansion for the 1-5 player card drafting and set collection game, Villagers. It will launch on Kickstarter on June 29. Shifting Seasons

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Jun 28, 2021

I See a Blood Moon Rising

It's that time of the month again. A bloody solo session of Talisman in which I evaluate what yet another expansion box has to offer. Earlier posts in this series are: Travels of a Toad Don't Fear the Reaper Rolling Dice with Death Down in the Dungeon Higher Ground Here Be Dragons Tonight it's a full moon. The Blood Moon is an expansion I had not tried before, as I am not interested in the theme. So after buying it, I only added the extra characters to the base game, plus one

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Athena

Jun 28, 2021

Mission: Recollection

JW and I had one of our usual "what to buy next" discussions the other day. I had browsed the local shops to check what's available, and, as I was in an Ameritrashy mood, I swayed between Jaws of the Lion and Bloodborne: The Board Game. Bloodborne, however, is expensive. No Pun Included says it's a mediocre game. And the box is too big for my limited space. Jaws, on the other hand, has this practical but awful-looking spiral notebook which reminds me more of homework than gam

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Tranquility: The Ascent is live (Ascend to Tranquility)

Zerbique

Jun 28, 2021

Tranquility: The Ascent is live (Ascend to Tranquility)

Update: Tranquility: The Ascent is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 34 days. You may pledge for one or more copies of the game. Our preview post below was published on June 24. Tranquility: The Ascent is a 1-5 players cooperative game of laying tiles in a pyramidal grid to climb a mountain up to the summit. It is a standalone sequel to the 2020 tile laying game Tranquility, and it will launch on Kickstarter on June 28. You start by laying down 10 “panorama” t

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Game of the Year: The Board Game is live (Video Game entrepreneur)

Zerbique

Jun 28, 2021

Game of the Year: The Board Game is live (Video Game entrepreneur)

Update: Game of the Year: The Board Game is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 14 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game. Our preview post below was published on June 24. Game of the Year: The Board Game is a 1-4 player card drafting and dice rolling game, in which you try to develop the most successful video game to gain the most sales and hype. It will launch on Kickstarter on June 28. The game is played in three rounds. In each round, you start by drawi

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Jun 27, 2021

1.000 Posts Old

At the beginning of this week we published our 1.000th post. And our website has not even been live for 100 weeks yet. Athena wrote 72% of them (yes, that's over 7 posts a week), I did 20% and Zerbique is at 8% (except he joined just a short while ago, so actually he wrote over 4 posts a week since then). A post will take two hours of research and writing on average, which makes over 20 hours a week. Huh. Here's a breakdown: News Crowdfunding: 600 posts Retail: 125 posts The

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Jun 26, 2021

Down in Cadet Stimpy's basement

Today for our Shelf Expression series, we're visiting Colorado, home of none other than our very own Master of Enquiries: Cadet Stimpy (we may call him Mike). His basement is as large as our country, so we mainly kept to one corner. Well, here’s the North-West corner of my Game Room (aka finished basement), complete with Twister rug. LOL! I’m renting, so please don’t dog me for that red strip on the wall. ☺️ I started playing modern board games about 5 years ago (I think). It

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Jun 25, 2021

Land of Hop and Glory

Hallertau won the Solitaire Times 2020 Best Game Award, so it was high time I checked it out. And I did. I played it fifteen times in the last five days. I consider that a lot, for an hour long game with challenges and dilemmas that will take up all your attention. But as soon as I was finished, I would set it up again. The Bavarian region of Hallertau. Land of glorious hop production. Of Weihenstephan Hefeweißbier. 🍻 Great stuff. I'll admit I was a bit disappointed that the

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Zerbique

Jun 23, 2021

Start Them Up! is live

Start Them Up! is a 1-4 players deck-building game in which you first brainstorm a start-up project, and then try to make it a reality. It is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for another 29 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game. In Start Them Up!, you first pick a character that comes with a dedicated starting hand. There are two main phases in the game, Imagine and Make. In the Imagine phase, players compete to be the first to fulfill a project. A project

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Athena

Jun 22, 2021

Arkosa is live

Arkosa is a 1-4 player resource and hand management game in which you are trying to build the most successful settlement on an alien planet. It is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 20 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game. Arkosa is played over 3 rounds, and each round is split into 6 phases. At the start of a round (omitted in the first round), you do the Preparation phase, that is, prepare the game board for the subsequent round by refreshing the pool

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The Great Race is live (Race across the continents)

Athena

Jun 22, 2021

The Great Race is live (Race across the continents)

Update: The Great Race and The Great Race 2 are live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 24 days. You may pledge for either of the two core boxes, or for both, or just get the Wild West and Far East extension for The Great Race. All previously released content for the game is available as well. Our preview post below was published on June 21. The Great Race (Africa - South America) is a 1-4 player worker placement and racing game in which you are taking part in a ca

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Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth is live (Valor & Villainy in the Labyrinth)

Athena

Jun 22, 2021

Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth is live (Valor & Villainy in the Labyrinth)

Update: Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 17 days. You may pledge for the retail or the Deluxe version of the game. A Premium Bundle is also available, and includes the Deluxe version, the Antagonist's Arsenal expansion, and premium plastic tokens. Our preview post below was published on June 18. Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth is a 1-6 player cooperative "light legacy" game, and the sequel to the 1 vs. many game,

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Zerbique

Jun 22, 2021

NEXUM: Galaxy is live

NEXUM: Galaxy is a 1-4 players sci-fi 4X game, in which you vie for galactic domination. Note that, to get the fourth X (eXploration), you need the Asteroids expansion. The campaign for both the game and the expansion is live on Kickstarter and it will run for another 16 days. You may pledge for the core set only, or order it together with the expansion, or go all-in and get the game, the expansion, miniatures, a playmat, and sleeves. Playing solo is not fundamentally differe

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Zerbique

Jun 22, 2021

TEN is live (Beat Jen in TEN)

Update: TEN has launched on Kickstarter as part of AEG's Big Game Night bundle, along with Whirling Witchcraft and the Villagers expansion for Tiny Towns, and the campaign will run for 10 days. You may pledge for all three games. Our preview post below was published on June 18. TEN is an abstract push-your-luck and set collection card game for 1-4 players. Although it is planned for a retail release in August, it will also be available as part of the “Big Game Night” bundle K

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