by Steph Hodge
We might have GenCon right around the corner, but that doesn’t stop Spiel announcements from happening! A few Spiel games and some new releases too!!
[imageid=9666028 medium rep]▪️ Czech Games Edition (CGE) Just announced a BIG release for this Spiel! It is currently sitting at the top of BGG Hotness called Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The Board Game. Designers Vlaada Chvátil (Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization, Mage Knight Board Game…)and Tomáš Holek (SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Galileo Galilei…) came together to create this mega game for 1-4 players that plays in 120-320 minutes.
From the newsletter:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The Board Game is an epic adventure game mixed with euro elements, set in 15th-century Medieval Bohemia.
Over the course of several in-game days and nights, players will try to leave their mark, whether by helping the local nobility, making important connections, fighting enemies, or stealing everything from tiny items to horses. While the game is competitive, it doesn’t pit players against one another, but instead allows them to succeed through their own achievements. It uses a deck-building system and emphasizes player freedom, creating narratives through its mechanics.
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▪️ Portal Games also sent out an announcement for their new Spiel release called Robo Run. This is a cooperative 2-player game with no talking allowed! Robots only speak in beeps and boops. There are 5 campaigns with many scenarios. Each scenario will be about 30 minutes.
From the Email:
Robo Run includes 5 full Campaigns — Toy Story, Cold Steel, Heat of the Furnace, Thousand of Cogs, The Acid Flow — each with 5 regular scenarios and one optional expert challenge. A single Campaign takes approximately 2 to 2.5 hours. Individual scenarios can also be played standalone in 20–25 minutes. Each Campaign is fully replayable with different Robots (four unique robots in the game), random events and Loot cards!
“Eryk brought me a game which reminded me a Sky Team, but this time it additionally had this awesome vibe of old 2d video games – a board, two robots, and puzzle to solve how to escape. I played it. I loved it. I wanted to publish it. That’s the whole story.”— Ignacy Trzewiczek, Founder & Publisher, Portal Games
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▪️ Stonemaier Games Just announced some games to be released mid July and are on the GenCon preview list. The first on the list is Duel of Meloch. This is a very interesting mash-up of Scythe and Expeditions. This is a 1-2 player game, and one player takes on the Scythe mechanics role and the other player uses the Expeditions mechanics. The game plays in about 45 minutes. Seems like a great game for the fans of these two original games.
From the newsletter:
All existing Scythe factions, player mats, encounter cards, and factory cards are compatible with Duel of Meloch, as are all existing Expeditions mechs, characters, companions, and discovery cards (items, meteorites, and half of the quests). Likewise, the components in Duel of Meloch are compatible with Scythe and Expeditions: For Scythe, 3 new Factory cards, 6 new encounter cards, a completely new set of 60 combat cards; for Expeditions, 30 new discovery cards (items, quests, and meteorites).
Duel of Meloch is designed by Jamey Stegmaier, with art and worldbuilding by Jakub Rozalski.
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▪️ The second game that was announced was Wingspan Pocket. As you might expect, this will be a small-box condensed Wingspan experience. It will still support 1-5 players, but the playtime is listed as 25-35 minutes.
From the newsletter:
Wingspan Pocket is accessible to novice players yet also compelling for more experienced gamers. This is a standalone game in a small box, not an expansion (the birds in it are not compatible with Wingspan). Wingspan Pocket features birds from around the world.
Wingspan Pocket is designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, with art by Natalia Rojas & Ana María Martínez.
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▪️ Finally, a new expansion for Origin Story called Origin Story: Heroes & Villains. This is a mini expansion pack that adds in new cards for more variety in your endings.
From BGG:
In addition to 7 new superhero cards, we created 14 supervillain cards for the stories that have a more devious ending. They’re all in the same deck.
Simply shuffle all superhero and supervillain cards (including superheroes from the original game) into one deck, then deal 3 cards to each player at the beginning of the game. The original game had players receiving 2 cards; you’ll instead receive 3 if you’re playing with this mini-expansion.
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