So, I talked some before about Black Friday sales that are going on, and I think it’s worth talking about more more and some more things that I’ve picked up.

From Deep Water Games: Claim 1 & 2

Claim is a 2-4 player trick taking game. You need both 1 and 2 to play it four player, and I do like trick taking games quite well. This one does something interesting in that you play through once gaining cards which will be your next hand and then you play through the second time trying to collect like fantasy race groups of cards. This one is really interesting because that first time through you are playing to win (or lose) a trick to get either a card off the top of the deck, if you lose, or a face up card if you win. But you might try and lose a hand because that face up card won’t do you any good, even if it’s a good card you might be trying to short suit yourself or something like that.

From Mythic Games: Super Fantasy Brawl

Imagine a game where crazy fantasy creatures are pulled from the past and all across the realms to face off, that is what Super Fantasy Brawl is. This game is about knocking your opponent out to get trophies as well as completing objectives. I like this one because it seems pretty simple but also very tactical. On your turn you play down three cards, one red, one blue, and one yellow, and you activate the character on those cards to move, push, attack, and what not. You have a team of three, so you might activate each person once, or, you might activate one character several times. And you can determine your plan of attack with that. You can also use cards to sort your deck, or as a reaction to something that your opponent is doing. It has almost a little bit of Magic the Gathering sort of feel to it as you do a number of things with cards, but lighter since you don’t have a massive card pool, you just get the cards for your characters.

Thunderworks Games: Roll Player: Monsters and Minions and Fiends and Familiars

These are the two expansions for Roll Player. In the base game you are drafting dice to build your best Dungeons and Dragons style RPG character. you get more points for having certain colors of dice in certain spaces on your character sheet, plus you are looking for certain numbers, for strength, dexterity, etc. The expansions add more, my one knock on the base game is that it felt a little bit like playing half a game. You just created your character and now you’re doing nothing with them, you just score it up and see who wins. Now you can face off against monsters, plus there are just more things going on in the game beyond even that with minions, fiends, and familiars getting added into the game as well. Overall a really good game, and I was able to get the Monsters and Minions expansion with store credit which is always awesome.

Floodgate Games: Sagrada Life

So, I love Sagrada, even though it’s been a bit since I’ve played it. It’s such a simple and well designed game that offers interesting challenges as you draft dice. Apparently I like buying stuff for drafting games. Sagrada Life is a small box expansion that adds in some new things to do. I don’t know everything it does in particular, but it adds in news ways to manipulate dice that seem very interesting. I need to play with the expansions to experience them and see what they add or change up, but they seem like a lot of fun.

Kolossal Games: Western Legends & Ante Up

Western Legends is a game that has been on my radar since the first Kickstarter for it. It is a sandbox style Western game that allows you do do anything that you want. If you want to be a bad guy, you can be, if you want to gamble, you can gamble, if you want to sell cattle, you can sell cattle. But everything gives you points and you can pick whatever you want to do. I like how everything seems balanced, and if you want to be a bad guy for a bit until you get caught, you can then be a good guy after that, it’s up to you. This game also has you playing and facing off by using playing cards, which have a wonderful old west look. Ante Up is an expansion that gives you even more that you can do. It increases the ante so to speak, and does that by giving you a train that you can rob which moves around the board. There are a lot more expansions too, but I’m really excited to try this game and have been kicking myself for not picking it up before.

Which of these games sounds the most interesting to you?

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