Week 4 Engine Building 5 Themed Games: Book Theme

  1. Literary Legacy is a drafting card game like Sushi Go in which players curate a collection of fantasy books and their authors, acting as the Wasabi card or Chopsticks to gain prestige points by selecting cards from a rotating hand to create sets and combinations that score points.
  2. Tale Weavers is a collaborative storytelling game, with cards that you might find in Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, in which a group of players builds a narrative by drawing from a deck of character, setting, and plot cards to create and build a story amongst players.
  3. The Bookkeeper’s Apprentice is a puzzle-solving game in which the player must solve magical riddles and mysteries by sorting through words and phrases from a grimoire to cast spells and defeat the ogre.
  4. Literary Labyrinth is a trading and hand-management game similar to Bonanza, in which players navigate a variety of genres to write their next book series hit by collecting and trading cards of different book genres.
  5. The Canon is a competitive set-collection game in which players compile collections of literary classics, such as romanticism, dystopian, and naturalism, by drafting, trading, and completing sets of classic book cards from different genres.

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