Fantastiqa is a competitive story-telling game for two to four players who will need to travel from land to land subduing beasts and creatures in order to recruit them and get their help to go on quests that will bring glory, and therefore victory, to the first player who caries out a number of quests.
Zombicide is one of those products about zombies (hence the name) that came out recently and it takes the theme of survival and makes a game out of it. It also came out of Kickstarter, successfully funded and thank goodness for that!
Zombies are popular. Maybe it’s their charming presence, their immaculate teeth, that lovely figure and walking stance, their lovely breath…
As a lover of Dungeons & Dragons, and since I have loved all the Wizards of the Coast boardgames hat have been released so far, getting Lords of Waterdeep was pretty much an instinctive reaction more than an informed decision.
I suspect that, like me, you have many friends (Shut up! I totally do!) who, while happy to play the odd game, are not ‘gamers’ per se. This is normal and fine (right…right?).
Hands down, the best Family Strategy Game for 2012 was Takenoko.
Takenoko was available only by special import in 2011, and then became widely available in the US in 2012, and that’s good enough for me.
It is quite something when you get to know a designer and can link their personality with their designs. You can then start to see how much they like telling stories and how they adapt the original ideas into something new.
The time to get a cup of tea (or coffee, or whatever), sit back and relax for a while while our favourite team of podcasters entertain you has come.
The G*M*S Magazine Podcast Episode 73–Kuznia Gier with Piotr Zuchowski Read Post »
We all love a fairy-tale, right? Especially since we all know that those sanitized, kiddie versions Mum and Dad told us when we were little aren’t the real deal – we’re much too sophisticated for those, yeah? I mean the proper ones, the old-school versions, the ones with all the violence and pain and incest left in. Well, how’d you like to be the one experiencing the sharp end of all that nastiness, or indeed dishing it out? Here’s your chance brave traveller, if you’re sitting comfortably then I’ll begin to tell you a tale of daring and courage, of sorrow and remembrance, of Mice and Mystics.
Rome May Not Have Been Built In A Day, But Empires Can Be Built In Under An Hour. By Peter
