I played a prototype at UKGE. I thought it was pretty good!
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Splotter playtest session | BoardGameGeek
Apparently, Horseless Carriage will be larger than Antiquity. 
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This a piqued my interest, but was disappointed in Fort from Leder Games
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Anyone know anything about this?
It’s in the centre of the image on BGG previewing Gen Con.
Like the theme and enjoy deduction
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BGG summary from a few months back: Conquer Northgard, Match Up Clues to Food, and Decipher Codes with Turing Machine | BoardGameGeek News | BoardGameGeek
I’m rather disappointed that it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with an actual Turing machine, but this may be unreasonable of me.
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is up for order on L99’s site: I know this is a little different for the thread, but I barely get to play games anymore and I waited so long to be able to say this: I’m about to set up Dungeon Degenerates for the week, where I will hopefully play and successfully complete (loss counts!) an inaugural campaign.
The rules for this sucker are pretty dense, but the bulk is RPG-faff so while I expect it to be slow going, I don’t anticipate all that much trouble playing through. There’s definitely some thematic fiddle though, so mistakes will certainly be made.
I’ll be going with two “heroes” to start, so I’m probably going to take a beating, but less overhead is better I think. Here we go!
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Organisms and the Sol: Last Days of a Star reprint have been pushed back to Autumn of this year. I am still hyped AF
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I want Sol. Is Organisms a Game of Life boardgame implementation?
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No, it’s a no-luck game of being a paramecium (or similar) and eating your fellow microorganisms.
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So, who else is going to get given Wordle: The Board Game for Christmas?
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You mean Mastermind: The 2020s edition?
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Not from my wife. We play Jotto occasionally but that doesn’t need specialised equipment.
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Spirit Island goes Target.
Oooh. This is not the thing that goes to Kickstarter in October right? This is … separate? Will we be able to get the spirits that go in this separately?!? I can‘t not have a complete set of existing spirits… but I am obviously not the audience for this.
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So far, it doesn’t sound like you can get them separately. On the bright side, the game is retailing for $30, and Target has a lot of sales through the year that may discount that even further, so for completionists, it should not put too much of a dent in the pocketbook.
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Well, there is not Target here that I know of. So hopefully someone will do a German translation…
Sadly it will be a 2-year exclusive with Target. I’m sure you’ll be able to proxy the new spirits sooner than that
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Those are going to be „easy“ Spirits is my guess, I haven‘t played the ones from the base game in a while. So it‘s just the completionist in me that is howling. I think it is incredible that a game like Spirit Island is getting a mass market version.
Is it always been that Target has made these separate exclusive versions or is this a new-„ish“ thing? I have only been hearing this for the past few years but a) I am not living in the US and b) I have never followed game news as closely before.
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I’ve noticed it for a few years (ten or so?), I think since Target noticed that for a small games company getting Target to stock their games meant a big sales bump because of an audience who may well not see games anywhere else.
I was reading something about this which suggested that the main goal was to have a cheaper-to-produce and more mass-market version of SI. So there might be component incompatibility.
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In this case (and a few others), Target is essentially a co-publisher; this game wouldn’t exist if Target hadn’t worked with >Games to develop it specifically for their stores and their demographics
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