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    Zerbique
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    Jun 02, 2021

    Two "Folktales" themed solo games, straight to retail

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    WolfWalkers: The Board Game



    I missed this cartoon in theaters because of the pandemic, so I'm glad I might be able to catch up with the board game!


    The game is not listed as solo on BGG but you can play it multi-handed and actually, one of the "achievements" you may try to fulfill is to win the game by playing it solo. It's a set-collection game in which you run around a board to get tiles, hoping to get three "wolf" tiles of a matching color. But you may also reveal "soldier" tiles that moves the soldier pawn (which is likely to be bad, but I can't figure much more about the rules than what is given in the BGG and dedicated website description).


    Mio: The Board Game




    Have you ever heard of Mio, My Son, a classics of the swedish children literature, telling the adventures of Mio, heir of a faërie kingdom that mut defeat the evil Knight threatening it? I hadn't, but it does look like a nice book, and it heavily draws inspiration from traditional folk tales. Anyway, it will be granted its own, soloable board game.



    A big caveat though: despite being multilingual and available in no less than four languages, English is not one of them. However, I do hope that "multilingual" entails "language independent components" so that a non-official English translation will pop up in the BGG files...



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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jun 05, 2021
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    I hope Mio comes out in English. The board reminds me a little bit of Tokaido (but with completely different art (obviously)).


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    Zerbique
    Jun 05, 2021
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    To each their own references: it reminded me of The Lord of the Rings!




    (Much less pretty. You can tell this game belongs to a former age of board gaming!)

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    Zerbique
    Jun 07, 2021
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    Actually, and although you can't see it here, the Lord of the Rings game comes with a variety of boards just like the Moria have shown, and this creates a gradation of color from the lush green of the Shire to the desolated ash lands of Mordor. Hence the feeling of similarity.

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