This week Julius tells us about the small game Welcome to Reckoning. This 1 player game by Mike Heiman set in a wild wild west with cosmic horrors. Gotta love those cosmic horrors.
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29:52
1P 366 - Vinhos
This week we talk about a Vital Lacerda big-box game on wine making. The game is the 2016 release of Vinhos: Deluxe Edition. It's a fun game that lets produce wine, compete in wine fairs, sell and export. All this in an effort to become the pre-eminent wine producer of Portugal. It's a pretty neat game with an interesting theme but maybe too big for me.
Vinhos: Deluxe Edition (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
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1P 365 - Popular Mechanics: The Year
This week, we look at a year of gaming. Well, sorta. We look at games that have a year in them or somehow use the flow of time in them. It was harder than expected, but we found a few games that do have a pretty decent sense of time passing.
Check out the sample fancy map someone drew for Cartographers:
02:30 Creature Comforts (BGG, KTBG)
04:30 Project Ecco (RPG Geek, More Blueberries)
07:55 Cartographers (BGG, Thunderworks)
11:50 Hostage Negotiator: Career (BGG, VRG)
16:50 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (BGG, Z-Man)
19:05 Fields of Arle (BGG, Asmodee)
Honorable mentions
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar (BGG, Buried Without Ceremony)
Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop (RPG Geek, Lost Ways Club)
The Quiet Year (RPG Geek)
Legacy of Yu (BGG)
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1P 364 - Power Plants
This week Julius and I look at a game about growing magic herbs and plants in a communal wizard's hedge. Position your helper sprites to help you get the most plants from this shared garden. This is an interesting game of area control in which, each turn, you are placing plant patches to trigger a variety of powers and increase your control over the garden. This game's solo experience closely mimics the multiplayer game using a bot that doesn't really add any time to the play. In fact, because of player analysis paralysis, it may be faster.
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1P 363 - Bot Factory
Julius and I talk about Bot Factory but Vital Lacerda. Mostly Julius describes the game and I talk about how much it reminds me of Kanban and how I want to play either of those two games. Bot Factory is based on Kanban in both the theme of managing a factory and the mechanics which are simplified quite a bit without making it a simple game at all.
Bot Factory (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
Kanban EV (BGG, Eagle-Gryphon)
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