Card Game | players: 3-6 | ages: 14+ | playtime: 45min
Publisher: Smirk & Dagger Games
Most literary critics agree that Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic masterpiece The Raven succeeded in spite of its gross lack of backstabbing take-that-ery. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Curt Covert has rectified this oversight with Nevermore – all the grim ambiance and subtle horror of its pseudo-namesake, now with a heavy dose of treachery and conflict!
Interesting. I admire the way Smirk & Dagger always takes a simple sponge cake foundation of a basic recognizable mechanic and then layers it with heaps of evil ‘take that’ icing. Bidding, press-your-luck dice rolling, and trail gaming, among a few, and now drafting.
I hope they have worker placement somewhere up their sleeves – that would be rather interesting.