Help me pick out what board game I’m going to be streaming to start 2022 over on Malts and Meeples YouTube channel. I have six that I’m trying to decide between and a poll up to help determine which one it is going to be. Last night’s Malts and Meeples stream was to kind of pitch each game and give a reason as to why they are all options that I’m looking for. You can checkout that below.

There are a lot of good games, and I could have pulled more off of my shelf. Reichbusters: Projekt Vril, 7th Continent, and Midarra were all honorable mentions that didn’t get mentioned in the video. And I even own more campaign games I could consider as well. But let’s talk about the ones that I did.

Six Board Game Options

HEXplore It: The Forests of Adrimon

This is an exploration and adventure game. It’s going to let you create a Dungeons and Dragons, in some ways, type character(s) to take through the world. You explore, shop, and fight along the way. This leads to a big battle in the end against the villain of the story. HEXplore It is ore of an adventure game, in some ways, than a true campaign style game. The setting is going to lean into a mechanical world with a Sorceress named Adrimon puppeting them all.

Under Falling Skies

This is a bit of a space invaders style game. There is a campaign to it as you play through some different cities. Each game goes pretty fast for this one. It is going to have less story than all the other games. But Under Falling Skies is going to give you dice manipulation as you try and keep waves of aliens away from you. I also runs off of a comic book(s) that tell you the story for each scenario.

Deep Madness

Another almost campaign type of game, like HEXplore It. Deep Madness is going to be a horror based game where you play through scenarios. The scenarios are loosely linked together. But in Deep Madness you and your team go down to a deep sea base. Something has happened, you have lost contact with them, and when you get there, things are much worse than expected.

Each scenario has you trying to survive to complete different objectives. They do form together to create a loose story. One time you might be trying to get the coms system up and working or restore life support before it fails fully, or get off the deep sea base. There just isn’t as much story between that ties them all together. This is one that is a bit of a longer game I think might be trickier to stream, but could be doable.

Sleeping Gods

Sleeping Gods from Red Raven games and Ryan Laukat is a game not set in the same world as his other games, Above and Below, Near and Far, and Now and Never, but still has to same amazing artwork. In this game you are transported to a world that you know nothing about. You aren’t even sure what you are trying to do. Except, you want to find a way home.

Sleeping Gods is a big exploration adventure game where a single play can take 10 hours or 15 hours. You complete quests and look for totems and clues. And there are a lot of different story elements you can find, so much that to win the game, you don’t need to do the same thing every time. That leaves a ton of the game available to explore again and again and again.

Folklore: The Affliction

Folklore: The Affliction is the most traditional in terms of a campaign game. This is a world that is full of vampires, werewolves, and other monsters. And as a monster hunter, you want to take them out. That, though, is easier said than done. Folklore is really an RPG board game. It gives you that feeling of rolling dice to see what happens and rolling D20’s even, I believe.

What interests me so much about this one is that RPG feel. You go from story moments and random encounters as you travel across the land. And then it drills down to a tighter picture and you get into combats against monsters. And you can even turn into a monster yourself if you aren’t careful.

Solomon Kane

Finally, we have Solomon Kane. This is a scenario but kind of campaign game. I say kind of campaign game because each story of Solomon Kane is it’s own campaign. Some of them can be played in a few hours. Some of them are much longer than that. Each scenario is going to have it’s own objective to try and complete.

It’s an interesting game, though, in that you aren’t playing as Solomon Kane. Instead you play as virtues who are aiding him along his way. In the books that the game is based off of, Solomon Kane is a good man with a particular set of skills. But he didn’t always use those skills for good. So the idea of the virtues is to keep him on the path and not fall into the temptations and darkness of his past.

Which Game Should I Play?

Vote and help me decide what game I should play. The voting is going to close on December 21st in the morning. That’s probably going to be one of the last daily articles I do that week. But I’ll dive more into the game then and probably ask some questions about what I should do, if there is anything to determine in the set-up.

But this is what I am going to stream to start the year. Don’t expect anymore streams in 2021 with Christmas and the week leading up to New Years. But for sure no stream next week, maybe one between Christmas and New Years. If that happens, I’ll try and give as much warning as possible.

Thanks everyone for watching and have a great holiday season. I hope that you get lots of great time with family and friends, and a lot of great gaming.

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