Looks like Stationfall isn’t it, but Bristol 1350 seems to be hitting stores and I was reminded that it had a solo mode. I’m sure curious how the heck that works.
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“Listen to me, me! I know you’re the traitor and I can prove it! I’ve seen your card!”
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$40 for us non EU Europeans
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By not actually being a social deduction but a party game as per Spacebiff’s verdict 
Party of 1 is kind of fitting in these times. Also plague games? Now? (There is an upcoming one about rich people fleeing Medina because of the plague that was recently on the BGG news)
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My Fathers Work is live My Father's Work by Renegade Game Studios — Kickstarter
On the one hand it look ambitious, reasonable UK shipping. On the other it’s £80 and I don’t know if it’s good.
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Yeah, dat price point. Coming pretty fresh with a hefty pricetag on a game that could, after all is said and done, just be a gimmick in a gloomy package.
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It’s interesting, listened to the Dice Hate Me podcast and they said that the market growth was in the big expensive boxes and the up to $30 games.
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Been waiting on this one for a few months ever since I heard about it;
Judgement was the skirmish game on my wishlist that had fantastic feedback, but I never expected to play. The original core set was $109+ USD, and only had 3 heroes and each additional hero was $40-60 USD. It was a side effect of a very small company producing 54mm hand poured resin minis (basically collector quality), so enough heroes just for my son and I to play was about $250-300 USD.
Recently found out the people behind it teamed up with Creature Caster, a minis company out of Canada to bring out a 2.0 version at 32mm, that offers resin and PVC options (the PVC is actually reasonably priced all things considered).
I definitely don’t need this, but it’s been near the top of my wishlist for ages and the 32mm PVC option puts it inline with similar games price wise, so yet another rabbit whole to go down, lol.
I really need to sell some games to make room and help cover the costs of some of these. The biggest ones being Imperial Assault and The Edge: Downfall. Unfortunately both will be hard to ship (or impossible in the case of The Edge).
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The somewhat-static overhead costs are on the rise; so it makes sense, from a product perspective, to have larger boxes. The more stuff you put in a box the more markup you can put on it to offset those fees. It certainly makes sense.
But the “somewhat casual person walking into a store to ask, ‘Good day, Shopkeep, can you recommend a lovely game for me and my 3 friends play?’” scenario doesn’t handle “well, you need this $120 box.” response as well as seasoned hobbyists. And, so, for the short term, yes, let the seasoned hobbyists carry these companies with their collective wallets… but eventually, most seasoned hobbyists will slow down their purchases and be much more selective.
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This was Dice Hate Me’s point. Either you aim for the $30 to get on the shelf of Target and B&N, or you aim at the boardgame nerds who will pay $100+ for a fancy box. The middle is where all the risk is, and where the audience is bottoming out.
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On the opposite side of projects (size wise) is a new solo/coop RPG;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shawntomkin/ironsworn-starforged?ref=android_project_share
I’ve heard good things about Ironsworn as a game but never broke down. May go in for the PDF version of this, and see what it’s like.
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Yeah, but I expect the $100+ fancy box market will bottom out as well. The post-pandemic world economy just won’t bear ultra-premium hobby products as well as it used to.
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Yeah, it’s all a pendulum (or an elastic band?). The further out it swings, the more likely it is to eventually ping back the other way. But for now publishers are following the market and so far it doesn’t seem like there’s a limit on maximum price.
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You’d say that but pay-to-win game apps on mobile continue to be floated by whales.
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Ironsworn is available for $0.00 from DriveThruRPG. I am turned off by the PbtA language (terms like “moves” and “Inflict your harm” make me itch), but it’s popular these days.
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Thanks! I’ll check it out!
PbtA??
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Yeah. Having been very keen on the great ideas in it, £80+ for a game (which in the gameplay videos looks extremely simple) isn’t going to work.
I get that the components are really lovely, but it just seems like they could have done this entirely in cardboard for £30. I’ll wait for the reviews.
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My bet is a lot of money went into developing the app and sorting out the decision trees. But people don’t pay big money for apps, so fleshing it out with deluxe components increases the perceived value more than the incurred costs.
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Yeah, very likely.
I keep coming back to “but it has a big app, and a flip book, that costs” except they haven’t even done the voice acting for it yet and Forgotten Waters is £40.
Eh, I’ll see if we get just one review from someone who has played it before the KS ends and I might jump on…
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Powered by the Apocalypse. It’s taken over as the new hotness from FATE in the indie games circles, it seems.
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