Game Review and Ideas Week 2

Reviews

In my group, myself and Nico already knew how to play Star Flux so that made Act One of then game play process go quickly. In this game, Each player takes turns drawing and playing card from their hands in order to fulfill the goal and win the game. However, there’s a catch. Each player has the opportunity to change the rules of the game as it progresses. You can change the draw requirements, the play limits, and even what the goal is in order to win the game. A first the game was slow. Some of the cards took some thought to understand and remember how they are played, but after about 10 minutes, the pace picked up a little. The two rounds we played were won in the same way, which was really funny. There’s a card with a little alien puppy on it that passes between the players after each turn. One of the goals was to have two of the three requirements, and the puppy was one of them. After the puppy was played it was only a matter of time before the other alien card was played with the respective goal in play.

The second game we played was was Bang!. None of us had played this game before so Act One of learning how to play took longer. Each player receives a secret role and. character card with special abilities. The outlaws want to try to kill the sherif, the sherif and their deputies want to try and kill the outlaws and the renegade wants to try to kill and become the sherif before the outlaws get to the sherif. Over all the game was easy to get used to, but some of the cards left us a little confused as to when to play them or what to do when it was played. Depending on how you play your cards, Act two can take a while, or the game can be finished quickly.

Overall, both these games were really fun to play and I would recommend them to anyone who likes a good strategy game.

Game Ideas

Prosperous: Each player receives starting cards to build their town. The game moves along until someone completes their town to win. The catch in that there is one person who is supposed to be cheating during the round (depending on the amount of players there can be one or more). The cheater can either try to win the game, or sabotage the other players to make the game longer. Each player role has a set of rules they have to follow in order to win depending on their role. The players can win by either completing their town, or figuring out who the cheater is. The cheater can win by either finishing their town, or making the game last x amount of minutes.

???: Battle Royale card game. Each player builds a team and then tests it to see how well it does in battle. The players have a variety of cards to choose from and they won’t know what their opponent has until the battle starts.

Otaku Royale: (This one’s for all the anime lovers out there) Each player picks a role at random at the beginning of the round that corresponds with a different anime. The players go back and and forth in either a debate or duel. If the players choose debate then they have to convince the other players why that anime is best then the other. The winner of that battle moves onto the next battle in a bracket style tournament (decided at random in the beginning of the game). If they choose to duel then each card will have a number on it. The higher number wins. There will also be special exception cards in duel mode.

???: Players lay x amount of cards (normal playing cards) out in a pattern on the table. Each player then takes turns rolling an object down the table towards the cards, and try to land on the cards. Whatever card the object lands on, the player collects. At the end of the round, each player adds up the numbers on the cards, and the hight number wins.

???: Dominos meets Scrabble. There are to two letters on each end of the card and the players have to put the letters together to create words. The more words the player completes the more points they earn. They can continue off of existing letters of create new words in another direction.