Alright, with the expansion and reprint posts out of the
way let’s move on to the honorable mentions.
These games are ones I highly anticipate that just missed my top 10 list
but I still think they warrant some attention for some reason or another. These games are all still anticipations as I
haven’t played any of them but I hope to at least be able to demo a bunch of
them when I’m at Gen Con next week.
Before we move on feel free to click on the links below to check out my
previous two posts in my Gen Con series.
Well, there are the links. Feel free to check them out at your
convenience. Now that the introduction
is out of the way let’s go ahead and move on to the post. Again, these are all games that I am highly
anticipating that are debuting and for purchase (in limited or full quantities)
at this year’s Gen Con. These are also
games that just missed my top 10 anticipations which I will be divulging in the
next couple of days. Enjoy!
The first game to make its way onto my honorable mentions
list for Gen Con 2017 is Apocrypha Adventure Card Game. This game is designed by Mike Selinker, Chad Brown, Tanis O’Connor, Paul Peterson, Keith Richmond, Liz Spain, Elisa Teague
and Gaby Weidling and is published by Lone Shark Games. This is a co-operative, hand-management and
deck-building game where you take a character that has repressed memories and
will be getting more powerful throughout the play of the game. There is also a certain level of role playing
that appears to be a major part of this game.
I am excited to try this game out as it is a card game (check), has
variable player powers (check) and player growth (check) and is co-operative (check). For these reasons I really want to check this
game out at the convention.
The next game to work its way onto my honorable mentions
is Bunny Kingdom. This game is designed
by Richard Garfield and is published by IELLO.
This game is a card drafting and area control game that where you are
taking on the role of a clan of bunnies that are trying to build the greatest
bunny kingdom in the land. The players
will be drafting cards in order to provide resources and take over squares on
the board as they expand their kingdom. The
game will score depending on the resources you have at the end of the game
along with the different areas that you control. This game snuck up on me and I think it looks
like a fun game that I’d like to try out.
The third game to make the honorable mentions list is
Dragon Island. The game is designed by Mike Fitzgerald and is published by R&R Games.
This game has the players taking on the role of a wizard who has been cast
away on a supposedly deserted island.
However, these wizards realize they aren’t on their own. From here the players will gain treasure, explore
and build up the island and eventually tame the dragons that make their home
there. I don’t know a whole lot about
this game which is why it didn’t hit my top 10 anticipations but just the fact
that it is Mike Fitzgerald doing a board game makes me intrigued. I am hoping to at least get a demo out of
this one at Gen Con.
The next game to make it onto my honorable mentions list
is Sentient. The game is designed by J.Alex Kevern and is published by Renegade Game Studios. This game is a dice manipulation, set
collection and card drafting game where the players take on the role of a
company who are trying to be the best which they can do by multiple
actions. The dice manipulation in this
game looks absolutely amazing and super crunchy which I think it fabulous! When you draft the cards and manipulate the
dice you are then able to place of assistants which gains you area majorities
if you have the most and allows you to gain bonuses and such. Along with the gameplay the game absolutely
looks amazing which is just another feather in Renegade Game Studios’ cap. I will probably be camped at their booth for
at least a little while when I’m at Gen Con and I want to get a demo of this
one.
The final game and thus the game that just barely missed
my top 10 anticipations is Century: Golem Edition. The game is designed by Emerson Matsuuchi and
is published by Plan B Games. This game
is a card drafting, resource management, deck building and set collection game
that is a re-theme of Century: Spice Road.
The game puts the players in the role of crystal traders in a
fantastical world of golems and magic as they use card drafting and resource
manipulation in order to gain cards that have end game points on them. The original did very well at Origins GameFair 2017 and thus they announced that they were going to do this re-theme just
this past week. This was the theme that I
wanted originally and I’m glad that they decided to go ahead and do it.
Other honorable mentions of note:
- VIRAL (Arcane Wonders)
Alright, there we go.
These games are all very interesting to me but there are 10 more that I’m
even more interested in! Come on back
the next couple of days and I’ll have up games 6-10 next and then I’ll finish
up the top 10 with games 1-5. After that
I’ll do a post on the demos and games that aren’t for sale that I’m most
interested in. Well, I think we’re done
for now. Thanks so much for
reading! Until next time, game on!
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