Okay, now with that information out of the way we can
move onto the main event. There are five
games that I will talk about in this post (as well as a few at the end that
just missed this post) that are essentially my 11-15. These are the games that just barely missed
the top 10 but that doesn’t mean that they don’t deserved to be mentioned…and
thus the honorable mentions post! Read
on and enjoy!
The first game to
make it onto my honorable mentions list for the games I’m most interested in
trying from 2015 is Forbidden Stars, designed by Corey Konieczka, Samuel
Bailey, and James Kniffen and distributed by Fantasy Flight Games. This is a very cool looking area control,
dice rolling, hand management game that is set in the Warhammer 40k
universe.
Each of the players takes
control of a different race (the Ultramarines, Eldar, Orks, or Chaos Space
Marines) and fight to gain control of the Herakon Cluster. One of the coolest parts of this game is where
you choose tokens and put them upside down in an area and then resolved them in
a specific order when it comes around to that phase. This is apparently a similar mechanic that
was used in StarCraft: The Board Game.
Then, you have very cool card play when resolving battles along with the
dice rolling. This game looks very
thematic and like a ton of Ameritrash fun!
Also, bonus, it is apparently just as good with 2 players as with the
full cadre!
The next game to roll its way onto my honorable mentions
list is Dice City, designed by Vangelis Bagiartakis and distributed by ArtipiaGames and Alderac Entertainment Group.
This is a dice rolling, worker (dice) placement, city building game with
some very cute but still very cool artwork.
You take turns rolling your five dice and putting them in the matching
color and number spot on your board. You
are then able to mitigate the dice rolls by throwing out unneeded dice, taking
resources, and buying other, more powerful buildings during your turn.
This just looks like a fun city builder along
with dice roller that would be a great game to bring out with newer modern
board game players. This is also a very
cheap game and has an expansion coming out soon called All That Glitters which
looks to expand the coolness of the game.
We are looking forward to trying this game out!
The third game to the miss the top 10 list of 2015
interests is Elysium, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J. Gilbert and
distributed by Space Cowboys and Asmodee.
This is a card drafting, set collection and tableau builder game that
has a Greek gods theme with outstanding art.
This game was nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres for 2015 along
with Orleans but they both ended up losing out to Broom Service.
In this game you are drafting cards that you
will use for their abilities before you get them into your Elysium. This is where the set collection comes into
play. You are trying to get certain runs
of cards and types of cards into your Elysium in order to score them. It is very cool because you are taking eight
decks of cards (each one aligned to a specific god) and from them use five to
create the deck for the game. I find
this very interesting as it would change the feel and the combos that
are available throughout the game. I’m
very much looking forward to trying this game as I think it will appeal to my
love of good cards games!
Next game up on the block is Nippon, designed by Nuno
Bizarro Sentieiro and Paulo Soledade and distributed by What’s Your Game?. This is an economic, Euro-style game that
uses some area control and trading as its primary mechanics.
The buzz around this game has been very good
as it came out of Essen Spiel 2015 with a ton of fans. Sentieiro and Soledade have been on a roll as
they’ve created such hits as Madeira and Panamax. This one has some interesting ideas of how
you take meeples and place them and when you take them away can lose more
points if you have a greater amount of colors.
I think the strategy in this game looks fascinating and hope I get a
chance to try it this year.
The final game (thus making it the game that just missed
the top 10) up in my 2015 interests yet to be played is Potion Explosion,
designed by Stefano Castelli, Andrea Crespi, and Lorenzo Silva and distributed
by Cool Mini Or Not and Horrible Games.
This is pattern and set collection game that has a very cool gimmick
involved in the game. It comes with a
marble dispenser that gives this game an element to create a similarity to
app-style games like Bejeweled or Candy Crush.
You are able to take these marbles which causes them to slide down and
make runs that you are then able to take.
It is a very cool element that has moved this game into a must-buy for
me as it would be great to get others into our hobby with something
different. I can’t wait until Cool Mini
Or Not releases their version of the game later this year.
These are the five games that just missed my top 10
interests that I haven’t played from 2015 as of yet. They may not have made the list proper but I
still feel they should be looked at and given some love as they look very
cool. There are other games that deserve
a look and below are twelve more that I considered but just missed the
honorable mentions.
Adventure Land
Blood Rage
Discoveries
Favor of the Pharaoh
Grand Austria Hotel
The Grizzled
Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King
Mombasa
Simurgh
Star Wars: Armada
Steampunk Rally
T.I.M.E. Stories
And there you have it, my honorable mentions from the
2015 games I haven’t yet played but really want to! Keep an eye out as in the next few days I’ll
have up my top 10 list starting with games 6-10 and then going on to games
1-5. After that I’ll have out a few
posts on my top 10 games I’m interested in coming up in 2016. As always, thank you so much for reading and
feel free to comment below or at BoardGameGeek with any questions. Until next time, game on!
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