Hey all, we’re back with a new three part series focusing
on the upcoming Origins Game Fair 2017.
This year it seems as though there may be even more attendees than last
year as the convention continues to grow.
This year there are some good looking games coming out and some of them
could end up in our collection at some point in the future. This post will focus on games 6-10 of my top
10 interests. The next post will focus
on games 1-5 while the final will tackle my top 5 games that are being demoed
but not released. Well, that enough
preamble, let’s move on to the games!
Okey Dokey is a co-operative, hand-management designed by
the fabulous Hisashi Hayashi and released by OKAZU Brand and Tasty Minstrel
Games. This game has the players taking
a hand of cards and cooperatively trying to place all 50 of the cards into
rows and columns which represent different performers in an orchestra. I love the cute art and the idea that the
players can give slight hints but nothing overt and are working together to try
and complete the puzzle. I’ve always
loved these small card games with clever mechanisms and this looks to be of the
same ilk.
Bohnanza: The Duel is a hand-management, economic card
game designed by the great Uwe Rosenberg and released by AMIGO Spiel and Rio
Grande Games. This game is a two-player
only version of its big brother, Bohnanza.
The game takes some of the general ideas and rules of Bohnanza and
creates a different variant which seems to work better for the two-player
game. This game doesn’t have players
trading with each other but rather gifting each other beans which the other
player can either take or choose to gift something back instead. I love the idea of the back and forth and
being able to plant different beans on the fields in order to use them but
they’ll give you fewer points. Bring on
more Uwe!
The Fox in the Forest is a two-player only, trick-taking
game designed by Joshua Buergel and released by Renegade Game Studios and
Foxtrot Games. There isn’t a ton of
information about this game as of yet but from what I’ve gleaned it is a
variant of different trick-taking games that makes the two-player version more
palatable. Most trick-taking games don’t
work that well with only two players so I’m really interested in how this one
is since it was designed from the ground up as a two-player game. The game contains normal ranked and suited
cards which you’ll use to win tricks but you can also use different fairy
characters such as a witch or a fox in order to change the trump, lead when you
lost the hand and more. Apparently you
can’t be too greedy however or you’ll lose!
I am intrigued enough for it to make my top 10 interests of the
convention.
Merchants of Araby is a hand-management, worker-placement,
and economic game designed by Jay Treat and released by Daily Magic Games. This game has 2-5 players taking on the role
of a prince or princess in Araby who is attempting to become the wealthiest in
the land. Players will do this using a
bunch of mechanisms such as hand-management, worker-placement and trading in
order to gain the most coins by the end of the game. Each player will be tasking their merchants
to generate products, starting a caravan in order to sell their products and
negotiating with your opponents in order to trade goods. I have been impressed with Daily Magic Games
and at least take a close look at everything they do by this point. I’m looking forward to this game, I think it
looks like quite an interesting hand-management game.
Witches of the Revolution is a co-operative,
deck-building game designed by Craig Stockwell and released by Atlas Games. I will admit that much of my interest in this
game is based on the very cool theme.
This is an alternate history game where the players co-operatively lead
a coven of witches who are determined to keep the nation from sinking into a
place of tyranny. Each player will build
their decks in order to recruit allies, use powerful relics, defeat dangerous
events and fulfill four key events before the time runs out. I think this looks like an interesting play
on the deck-building trope and hope that it plays as well and it looks!
Well, there you have it, games 6-10 on my top 10
interests for purchase at Origins Game Fair 2017. Keep an eye out as my next post will be up
soon and take on games 1-5. Thanks so
much for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
Until next time, game on!
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