Hidden Leaders is pinging my “might be interesting” sense (and I do like a lot of social deduction games) but I haven’t had a chance to do a deep dive on it yet.
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I admit I only watched the 5 minute rules explanation and for 20€ my thoughts went “why not?”
It has a bunch of different factions and a ladder on which you move two different meeples up or down by playing cards and depending on where those two meeples end up in relation to each other and the end of the ladder one faction wins. The winner of the game is the person who played the most cards of that faction to their personal tableau. Sounds interesting enough considering I just payed nearly as much for Scape Goat 
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I’m still waiting on my Animated Tarot (and figuring out what I’m going to do with them once they arrive).
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Same. I collect decks and have no need for it at all, but it’s going to be quite unique.
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Before I followed the link I was thinking “so Wile E. Coyote is the Fool?”.
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I quite enjoyed Keyper the three times I played it. There’s so much going on, I wasn’t able to play with a long view (although I suspect that changes with experience?), but it was good fun.
Caveat: I’m the kind of person who admires the publisher for printing flowcharts of how actions work on the lower half of the box.
Credit: Richard Breese
Am I going to back the Keyper at Sea Kickstarter? Probably not, but mostly because I don’t have my own copy of the base game, and I’m already pushing the limits of my board game budget for the year.
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I stumbled across a Cole Wehrle review of sol:last days of a star which I was previously oblivious to. Looks like this is getting reprinted with elephant games new Kickstarter organism. I can see me backing this one when it launches to get sol as I do love me some sci-fi.
Has anyone played it before?
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No haven’t played but I swear I heard someone talk about it recently so it must have been an episode of SVWAG… the Episode is titled Whining. Their actual review was a year earlier but maybe check that out.
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This is one that has been on my wishlist for a while. It sold out really quickly after the KS delivered. It has also received a very positive review by Dan Thurot. This will be one of my few exceptions from my purchasing hiatus this year.
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All of my Railroad Ink Kickstarter arrived in the mail yesterday. Already had blue and red so need to get them off the shelf to put with the new stuff then find a place in the getting crowded game room for the new giant box of everything.
That’s more difficult than usual at the moment as my husband ordered a new desk from an internet site a few weeks ago and when it was delivered a few of the filing cabinet drawers were badly damaged. Everything from his old desk that should be in those drawers is piled around in the game room, awaiting the arrival of the replacement desk pieces (hopefully today) and blocking access to the game room table and a few of the game shelves.
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That looks lovely but huge. When you play any of the expansions do let us know which you enjoy I am thinking of getting one or two of those… but have trouble deciding.
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When my copy arrives I have ambitions to do a PBF series.
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Will do. I can say just from looking at them I have some concerns about the Sky expansion. The weather dice there are a little hard to see. They’re translucent light blue with dark blue ink. For one person getting up close, not terrible. For multiple people trying to see them at a table, I think it’s going to be rough. This is one of the few times I think they’re actually easier to make out in the picture than in reality.
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I expected a small package with Herbaceous today…
I’m going to have to use Machete for my herbs then.
Also, I have storage complaints… later.
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I won an award for being a jolly good scientist and putting KIR on the medical map (in parallel with putting KIR on the boardgame globe). The substantial prize money means I both (i) have no excuse not to back Mythic Battles, and also (ii) cannot use it to buy Mythic Battles so I buy something permanent that won’t make me look weird when people ask what I spent the money on.
So I guess I guilt-free spend my own money on Mythic Battles and the prize money on something else.
Cognitive dissonance rocks!
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About 5 mins into the previews for awSHUX, and I already REALLY want the upcoming KS “My Father’s Work” where you are all mad scientists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZ0vxptsiU
KS notification page here:
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Almost sounds like a more approachable/thematic Trickerion! In at least the use of different valued workers that have bonuses for doing specialised actions and building up to an experiment (or magic show in Trickerion) at the end of the phase before it starts all over again.
I’m curious if all those different mechanisms get in their own way. The first half of the explanation all sells itself as a light/medium worker placement with gallons of theme, and then there’s more stuff on more stuff on more stuff until I don’t quite understand what weight it is.
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I looks quite good! I’m going to be waiting for retail/critical reception, but maybe if it does well when it hits the public, they’ll put an expansion KS up and I can jump in then.
Yeah, I love the ideas such as “townsfolk fear you so you have to stay in your Estate up on the hill”, but when all the different trackers come in I can’t help thinking that it’s going to be so difficult to balance properly.
Awesome theme, but it’s going to live or die by the “did they do enough playtesting?”
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I think a lot will depend upon whether they’ve weighted it towards generating fun story moments, or a competitive strategic euro for the points - two completely different markets. It sounds like it’s built around the storytelling predominantly.
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