Card Games

The latest expansion pack is really a slap in the face of dedicated collectors.

Hercules has to complete a dozen tough jobs to atone for killing his family. Only you can help him in this solo deckbuilding game!

Now that I have finally won the game, I have some thoughts…

Spoiler alert: They’re in China. Last week, game developer Todd Walsh and publisher Mike Gnade held a live preview of their new game expansion, “Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin”. During the Q&A session afterward, they expanded on how difficult it is to print games with lower print runs or custom components in the US or the EU. So, everyone goes to China. But with world shipping in upheaval, getting the games from China… that’s an issue. Rock Manor Games had to do a Go Fund Me (it was some other fundraising site, but same diff) to raise money to get the games out of China. ...

Okay, picture this: A collectible card game – except digital! And you play as one of a bunch of different classes, with cards themed to your class. You can play through a deep RPG with unique storylines for all classes, or test your deck against other players! There’s never been anything quite like Hearthstone Shadowverse! Not the protagonist of the game, though he was of the anime. Bit of a demotion. ...

Terraforming Mars, the big box game by FryxGames, is a long-time favorite board game at our kitchen table. As the name implies, it’s a game about making Mars habitable by humans. But, what if Terraforming Mars, but a fast-paced card game? That’s Ares Expedition. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition shares a lot of elements with the board game. There’s a board representing Mars, divided into hexes. Players represent corporations building generation-long projects, which are cards in both games. Players have their own player boards, on which they track wealth and resources. What’s changed? ...

I’d forgotten we’d discussed changing game night from Thursday to Wednesday and only remembered when my daughter showed up on the doorstep, ready to game. I didn’t have the next Jaws of the Lion scenario ready, and we’d just played Terraforming Mars. Me, I wanted to play Mahjong, but I wasn’t hearing a lot of enthusiasm about it. Tom suggested Heart of Crown, so that’s what we played. I hauled out the card table and we got to setting up the game. ...