Orleans is a bag builder game where players compete in different areas in goods, money, development tracks and victory points using followers and gaining citizen tiles. It almost feels like a race and area control using a mechanic similar to that of a deck builder but instead using a deck of cards, it’s using a bag filled with tokens.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to collect various items from coins, goods, building trading stations, earning development points and c...
Shambling hordes of people, dead-eyed, purposeless. Yes, the suburbs are terrible. Also, there are some zombies.
Zomburbs is a semi-cooperative deck-building game about suburbanites sometimes working together, sometimes competing with each other, during a zombie apocalypse. Deck-building games have been popular since Dominion established the genre, but new entries like this show that there is still a lot to be done with the mechanic.
For those who aren’t familiar wit...
Over the years a large number of deck building games have sprung to life, with some being better than others. For me, the best is still the father of them all: Dominion. To be honest though, Dominion rarely hits the table anymore and therefore I’m always looking for a new deck builder to take its place. Enter the Cthulhu Deckbuilder.
At its core, the Cthulhu Deckbuilder game borrows the Ascension mechanic (constantly refreshed resource row) but adds some nice twists ...
RONE (Races of New Era) is a strategic post-apocalyptic card game for 2 or 4 players set in a dark world full of destruction and suffering. It combines exciting and unique card game mechanics with enormous possibilities of how to play the game.
Game play immerses you in a dark world where people are fighting to reestablish their place in the fallout following a global nuclear war. The war evaporated every achievement of the human race, leaving behind only a handful of ...
Star Realms is probably one of the best small games you can get that won’t hurt your wallet so much. It comes in a small box, but it certainly has a lot of game and fun to it.
Gameplay
Each box of Star Realms allows two players to play. The more Star Realms decks you have, the more people can play. If you've played Dominion, this is very much like the gameplay; it’s a deck-builder game. Each player starts with 50 Authority (life) points and is dealt 10 cards, shuffled (c...
Evil Hat brings great games to the table, and they’re proud to introduce the latest via their Kickstarter for Don't Turn Your Back. With a unique combination of deck building and worker placement elements, and a design that creator Eric B. Vogel has called one of his best yet, this board game offers a fresh and exciting gameplay experience. Evil Hat has paired Eric's amazing design with their Mad City setting — seen in RPG form as Don't Rest Your Head and fiction as Don't ...
Who likes super hero games? Who likes deck building games? I raised my hand for both of those questions, which is why I recently purchased Heroes of Metro City. I haven't actually played the game yet, but expect a full review soon. In the meantime, bask in some unboxing pics below.
A few things drew me to this game. The first is the player name plates. At the start of the game, each player uses a dry erase marker (included) and writes down the name of their superhero. T...
Richard Miles interviews Jared Barry of Mad Ape Games. Jared has an active Kickstarter campaign running for Clash! Dawn of Steam right now.
Topics covered:
Who makes up the Mad Ape Games team.
The importance for back story and theme in a game.
The different factions in Clash! Dawn of Steam.
The difference between Jared's first Clash! Kickstarter campaign and the current one.
The deck building aspect of Clash! Dawn of Steam.
