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Day three and now we get to move onto the final part of
my top 10 game interests of Gen Con 2015.
These are the top 5 games that I will be looking forward to (or already
ordered) as they are debuting at Gen Con.
Take a look and see if any of these are interesting to you, as at least
a few of them will definitely be entering my collection. Also, if you haven’t had the chance yet,
please check out my previous two posts in the Gen Con 2015 series. They focus on my honorable mentions and games
6-10 of the top 10. Just click the links
below and enjoy!
With that out of the way, time to move on to my top 5
game interests at Gen Con 2015. These
are the games that I am most interested in and I’m hoping that the top 3 will
be in my possession as a friend of mine, Morgan, will be picking up a few for
me while he’s there. So sit back, relax,
and enjoy my top 5 interests of this year’s Gen Con.
#5 – Champions of Midgard (Grey Fox Games)
Champions of Midgard is a dice rolling, set collection,
and worker placement game designed by Ole Steiness and released by Grey FoxGames. This game really came out of
nowhere for me until I really started to study Eric Martin’s Gen Con 2015
preview list on BoardGameGeek. It is
mainly a worker placement game and I’ve heard from multiple reviewers that it
has the same feeling as Lords of Waterdeep.
To start, the theme really hit me.
I don’t have any Viking games but I do find them to be very
interesting. This one has a light to
medium weight and I think I’d be able to pull it out with newer gamers and
everyone have a great time. On a side
note, this year really seems to be year of the Vikings!
#4 – Discoveries (Ludonaute/Asmodee)
Discoveries is a pool building, dice rolling, worker
placement game designed by Cedrick Chaboussit and released by Ludonaute and
Asmodee. This game is another that has
art by the absolutely fabulous Vincent Dutrait.
This game just oozes with his absolutely stunning artwork and I have to
say, it doesn’t hurt my interest when you bring on brilliant artists and let
them work their magic on the game. This
is the follow up game to Chaboussit’s Lewis & Clark and it takes on a dice
rolling mechanic that looks like a ton of fun.
Asmodee should keep up the good work; they keep finding and releasing
great dice games such as Nations:The Dice Game which came out just
recently. Discoveries looks like it will
be a great Euro-style dice game and I look forward to playing it.
#3 – Mysterium (Libellud/Asmodee)
Mysterium is a co-operative, deduction game designed by
Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko and released by Libellud and Asmodee. This was originally a Ukrainian game that
Portal Games released in Poland as Tajemnicze Domostwo. It was a huge hit at last year’s Essen Spiel
and then Portal opened up their version to other countries as their store will
ship almost anywhere. Now, Libellud
picked up the English rights to the game and they will be releasing it in
conjunction with Asmodee as Mysterium.
They changed up some of the art and some of the components (including
adding an amazing player screen for the one playing the ghost) but mostly the
game has retained its original rules. In
this game one player takes on the ghost character and plays cards in front of
the other one to six players who are attempting to find the actual killer of a
murder from many years ago. I haven’t
heard anything bad about this game and the new Libellud version looks
awesome! On a side note, this is one of
the games that I’m hoping my buddy is able to pick up! There aren’t many copies but I’m hoping he’ll
be able to pull this one off.
#2 – Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot (Portal Games)
Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot is a dice chuckin’ game
designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek and released by Portal Games. For those of you counting, there are three
releases by Portal Games on my top 10 list.
I will readily admit that I am a Portal fanboy and I look at all of
their releases as possible purchases. I
have all three of their Gen Con 2015 releases on pre-order and Morgan will be
picking them up for me. Rattle, Battle,
Grab the Loot is a game with some of the most beautiful components that I have
seen in a long time. There is a ton of
great, custom, etched dice in different colors and even more great cardboard
pieces that you are able to put together and form your ships. There is some great artwork done by multiple
artists on this game. It is cartoony and
absolutely great. The art really adds to
the theme and the fun of this game. This
game uses a dice rolling mechanic where you actually toss them into the box lid
and fight in that area. It is a clever
mechanic that I think will work really well with this game. This game will be in my hands in about a week
as this is one of my pre-orders (the others are Imperial Settlers: Atlanteans
Expansion and Tides of Time) from Portal Games.
I can’t wait!
#1 – Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn (Plaid Hat Games)
Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn is an expandable card game
designed by Isaac Vega (of Dead of Winter fame) and released by Plaid HatGames. This is another game that really
snuck up on me. It only really hit my
radar around the time of Origins Game Fair.
I had heard Ashes but wasn’t really interested until I really started to
see the artwork done by the incredible Fernanda Suarez who also did art for
Dead of Winter. I have been interested
in starting up a 2-player battle game (i.e. Magic: The Gathering) for some time
but I really am not interested in collectable card games as they can cost so
much just to find some decent cards. I
think that the battle decks for Magic: The Gathering are cool but I didn’t
think they’d have a ton of replayability without buy a bunch of them. This game is a battle card game with six
different characters (seven with the promo character!) and six different
created decks straight out of the box.
Along with the amazing cards are some absolutely gorgeous, etched
dice. These dice are used as “resources”
for your different allies, conjurations, and spells throughout the game and it
is really streamlined with a main action and side actions per turn. I can’t wait to break this one out and play
with my wife! I actually have this one
already as I pre-ordered it and just got it, but I haven’t gotten it to the
table as I’ve been at work all week.
But, hopefully I’ll get to play this one in the next few days.
Well, there are my top 5 game interests of Gen Con
2015. I am sure that I’ve missed a few
but I feel that this is a pretty strong list.
Keep an eye on my blog as I’ll be posting one more Gen Con post at least
that will be my top games from the convention that I’m interested that aren’t
for sale. I hope you enjoyed my
list. Let me know if you have any questions
or comments and also, let me know what your top games for the convention
are! Until next time, game on!
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