Explore the wastelands in this post apocalyptic sequel to Maximum Apocalypse where monsters roam the lands and it’s tough to just even survive in this cooperative game by Rock Manor Games.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikegnade/maximum-apocalypse-wasted-wilds?ref=profile_saved_projects_live

Pros

• Proven Game System
• Proven Company
• Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse Theme
• Price Point

Cons

• FOMO on old stuff

The Page

I think that Rock Manor Games did a very good job laying out this Kickstarter page. Like I said in the Pros section, they are a proven company with proven Kickstarter experience. So I am not super worried that they wouldn’t have a nice looking page, bu t the layout is solid to me.

There is a good sized section for game play as well. Now it does fall into an issue I have with other expansions or sequels. Do I know how to play the original game, if I do, it’s all fine. However, if I don’t, the explanation doesn’t give you a ton on how the basics of the game works, just what is new. This is fine, Maximum Apocalypse has it’s fans already who know the game. They want to know what the new stuff is, but for new people interested in it, a blurb, just even a short paragraph explaining would be nice.

The only other thing I’d knock them on is the shipping section. Now shipping prices are really competitive. In fact, I would say some of the best I’ve seen in a while, so I hope they didn’t price them too low or they wouldn’t jump too much in the pledge manager. But what I don’t like is that they aren’t directly on the page. When I am working, I don’t have access to Google Docs, so I can’t check the shared sheet to see prices and make a determination. Now this is more of a me issue. For a lot of people they won’t check at work or work will allow it. Still, would be nice to have the graphic.

The Game

So, the game is an existing game already, the game play is out there. I actually watched through game play on Rolling Solo for the original game, and then Quackalope for this Kickstarter. You can see the Quackalope game play below.

This game does a lot of things that I like. I don’t believe this is an easy game to beat, and I love games like that. Some people want to win cooperative games most of the time, I want to win them 25%-33% of the time. Now, I want to feel like I am close, and as you can see, Quackalope was and wasn’t close.

In Maximum Apocalypse, I like how the game pushes you in what you are doing and gives you lots of ways to lose, but mainly by someone dying. Just everything is trying to kill you. It also makes finding goods such as food and fuel that you need challenging, almost in a Dead of Winter sort of way.

Maximum Apocalypse: Wasted Wilds actually adds in two cool things for me. The first being that it is a campaign. They had scenarios that would get harder for the different factions in the original game, but it wasn’t a campaign. You could play them back to back to back, but the game itself wouldn’t remember what you’ve done. This one adds in that campaign element that it feels like the first one could have had. The second thing is the tribes in the game. Tribes basically give you the ability to create powerful enemies or powerful allies to hind or help you. I love that concept and that it gives you something else to manage in an already challenging game.

Back or Brick

So is this game a back or a brick for me? I am going to give this one a Back. However, I don’t know that I will be backing it. Yes, I can do that, I make the rules around here. I suspect that I’d really love this game, the campaign aspect is really cool, it is more a matter of budget. I need to pace myself in what I back, and I just got off backing Marvel United X-Men which wasn’t cheap.

That said, I think that anyone who backs this game, it is going to be a great game. As Quackalope says in their video, this is a bit of a messy game in terms of the randomness, but I really like that in a game, and with the theme and story, I feel like it works really well.

How about for you? Is Maximum Apocalypse: Wasted Wilds a Back or a Brick for you?

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