Last nights Malts and Meeples stream was a bit odd. I had fun with it, I got to unbox a game from OOM Games that I am really excited for. Stars of Akarios is blowing up right now on Board Game Geek. SO I wanted to grab a copy of it, which isn’t that cheap if you didn’t back it on Kickstarter. But there were some reasonably priced copies on eBay or there were. But let’s look at this game.

Stars of Akarios

Stars of Akarios, just for a brief overview is going to be an exploration game in two parts. It’s set in space so in one part you are flying around, battling enemy ships and going between planets. Then you came down to a planet level view and go on adventures there.

This is done with some cool looking minis, dice rolling, and a modifier deck. I think the giant book of scenarios, the modifier deck, and people are comparing it to Gloomhaven for those things. But the rest of the game feels quite different. Obviously, Gloomhaven has no die rolling.

What drew me to this game, besides it being a big campaign game, is that you can upgrade your characters and there seems to be a lot of story there. As I flipped through the rule book and scenario book, I wish there was more or better art in those books. But the whole of the game and the story seems to be bigger than the artwork in those books. And the artwork on the planets looks nice.

My hope with Stars of Akarios is to start streaming a play through of at least a few chapters of this coming up soon. I feel like it’d be something different than the fantasy that I’ve been streaming recently. And it is also a game that looks big but should be able to fit, barely, onto the table for streaming.

Upcoming Streaming

So, like I just said, I want to stream Stars of Akarios once I finish up the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. I should wrap that one up in the next couple of weeks, but we’ll see for sure. So I’d think that Stars of Akarios will likely get started post GenCon at the start of August.

But this Wednesday, and it’s already up, we have Pathfinder Adventure Card game for tomorrow. How will Seoni and Amiri fair this time?

And then, next Monday, I want to bounce between doing an unboxing or chat and a Top 10 List. I will eventually start to do some lists about specific games, like gateway games or stuff like that. But I think it might be 10 things to know before going to GenCon or something like that? I also want to do a list of GenCon games again to buy or demo there that have caught my eye.

Is Stars of Akarios on the list of games you’d want to buy? Or would you like to see a game play of it?

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