3 in 15 is our monthly YouTube show and we review 3 board games in roughly 15 minutes. These are quick reviews of games that we have played a few times.
Suzanne and Conesy take you for a tour of the Delve, their tabletop gaming room. It’s been a year in this new home and the Delve is starting to grow into what it will someday be.
Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.
Terminus
Our first project this week is Terminus, a kickstarter from insideUp games.
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Terminus is a subway building resource management game for 2 to 5 players. In Terminus players take on the role of a transit company building subway routes to connect districts across the city. Players will take actions around what the game calls an Action Loop. Through the 13 available actions in the Action Loop players must manage multiple aspects of their company including construction resources, power and building permits. They will build subway stations and subway lines to meet the changing demands of the city for service to different districts. Players will also add new developments to the city, fulfill public projects and earn prestige for their personal agendas.
Terminus looks to be a game of higher complexity that would fit well on the shelf with heavier resource management euro-games. The kickstarter edition will feature a number of upgraded high quality components if it meets its stretch goals. The Kickstarter campaign will wrap up on April 25th.
Terrorscape
Second up this week is the Kickstarter for Terrorscape from Ice Makes games.
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Terrorscape is a heavily thematic asymmetrical actions game for 2 to 4 players that promises to recreate the feel of a horror movie at the tabletop. 1 player will take on the role of a bloodthirsty killer that hunts down the other players to bring them to a grisly end. The other 1 to 3 players must work as a team of survivors to avoid the killer and find a way to escape.
The survivors take on the role of a unique character with specific abilities and strengths to lend to the team. There are five base survivor characters to choose from including The Doctor, The Engineer and the Detective. There are plenty of choices for the killer ranging from your standard chainsaw wielding maniac, to werewolves, aliens and even a monstrous carnivorous plant. Terrorscape features detailed miniatures for each of the survivor characters and the various killers.
Gameplay takes place on a two-sided board with a large mansion structure acting as a screen to hide the survivor’s and killer’s side of the board from each other. The mansion also functions as a dice tower! The Killer uses a unique deck of cards that provides a different play style to hunt down and eliminate the survivors. Survivors must scrounge for useful items and weapons while avoiding exposing their location to the killer . Because of the screen separating the board the game has the unique aspect that actions are hidden from the other party so that survivors can slip away undetected or the Killer can set a surprise ambush. The survivors will only win if they locate 5 keys that allow them to escape or they are able to survive long enough to wait for rescue. If the Killer manages to find and kill one of the survivors they lose.
While it looks like there is plenty of content in the base game The Terrorscape campaign also includes expansions that provide new characters and killers as well as new maps to play on. Additional upgrades are available for the deep-pocketed backer including deluxe playmats and components. If all this sounds like a delightfully terrifying time you have until May 20th to back this project.
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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.
Forge
First up this week is Forge, a Kickstarter project from FunDaMental games.
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Forge is a worker-placement game where players are blacksmiths in the medieval era. Players start the game with a basic smithy and the capability to forge only simple items like simple knives or tools. Players must gather their resources from the Forest, Mountain and Mines to be able to complete forging contracts that will earn them both victory points and gold.
As the game progresses players are able upgrade their smithy and gain additional levels of skill to take on more advanced and lucrative military and royal contracts. Players will also seek to gain notoriety among the guilds of the city, build special developments, train assistants and compete for various smithing achievements. If you are ready to take up the hammer, forge a path to the Kickstarter page and back Forge before April 13th.
Galactic Renaissance
Next up we have Galactic Renaissance a game from the designer of INIS and publisher Matagot Games.
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As a followup to the celtic themed card battling area control game INIS, Galactic Renaissance promises to be a tense political game as players expand their influence and control over planets across the galaxy.
Through deck-building, players will assemble a team of specialist cards with a variety of unique abilities that the player can take as actions on their turn. Players will explore the galaxy through the use of portals sending emissaries through to expand their influence on the planet. Control of the planet can grant the player special asymmetrical powers but as more players send emissaries to a planet it gets pushed toward disorder and players will need to take actions to restore balance. Ultimately players will be racing to score 30 points in the galactic senate by using their unique senator cards and triggering public game objectives. The Kickstarter campaign for Galactic Renaissance will end on April 15th so portal over to the project if you are looking to back it.
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Dice Manor is a recent addition to the game library. WiscoDice was given this game to review from Arcane Wonders. In Dice Manor, you play as a developer who is building a lavish manor. You start with just a foyer, build your manor up, market it, and give people tours through this ever-growing manor. Those who manage to build the finest manor, gather the best rooms, and provide first-rate marketing for their manor, will be the victors of this dice-rolling game with a bidding mechanic. Do you have what it takes to build a fantastic manor?
Game specs:
- Players: 2-4
- Playtime: 30-45 minutes
- Genre: Dice
- Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Bidding/Auction
- Publisher: Arcane Wonders
- Designer: Garrett Herdter
- Artist: Damien Mammoliti