Game Updates (Oct 19)

I REALLY need to get off my butt and play some new games and write some reviews! So many good games, so many I need to try out!

Not sure where to post this so it will get attention, but Sidibaba is showing as a pending release. I own it and have played it so it obviously is out. I’d love to write a review on it but cannot because it is showing as unreleased.

If you like the Cutthroat Caverns series check out Smirk and Daggers earlier games such as Run for Your Life Candyman and Shootin’ Ladders.

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is one of the best deductive games ever made, and it’s coming back… looking great! I highly recommend this game for anyone who loves deduction games.

Be careful of Cutthroat Caverns. My group loves RPGs, and simply hates the “almost-an-rpg” nature of this game. I have known people who love it, but I’d try it first to make sure (if you can). The quality of the components is good, art is good, concept is unique, and there are multiple expansions if it turns out you like it… including an expansion that makes it a bit more rpg-like with campaign storylines. We just couldn’t get into it, because it’s more of a single path kill-kill-kill game. It can be very tactical as you try to help others just enough… before letting them die towards the end.

Seven items for me, but only three games. Is it wrong of me, when figuring out how big my collection is, to count Runebound and its 29 expansions as one game? 😛

Tzolk’in, Talisman: The City and Empires of the Void are all ones I’ll be looking at too.

Lots of fantasy-themed games this week. Haven’t played any of these, yet, though Farmageddon is on the counter ready to go. 🙂

Ah, Cutthroat Caverns, excellent game (with the correct group – awful game experience with the wrong group).

It’s semi-cooperative but there is only one winner, but everyone can lose. This means you need to work together as a team for much of the game to ensure it’s possible to win (defeat enough monsters), but you want to be the person getting the most points (kills), so you can alter what other people have done to try and help yourself. The monsters have vastly different abilities and ways to beat them, keeping the game challenging and interesting.

These types of games can be great fun if the whole group is ok with single winner or all loser results. It becomes terrible when there are people in the group that decide they can’t win anymore, and if they can’t win, they won’t help because they don’t want someone else to win. Then, the game becomes fun for no one. Thankfully, seeing someone do this once makes it easy to put them on a list to never play semi-cooperative games with again.

Only own 1 game this time: Farmageddon.