Alright! I’ve
trucked along with my Gen Con 2017 posts and now we’ve come to the final post
(maybe) which will take a look at my top 5 anticipated games that are being demoed
at the convention but won’t be available for purchase yet. Some of these games are really interesting to
me and I’m looking forward to trying them out while I’m at Gen Con. Before I tackle this list feel free to check
out my previous five posts in the series at the links below.
Alright, now that we’re all caught up we can go ahead and
move on to the list of games. Again,
these are my top 5 anticipated demo games that aren’t available to
purchase. Sit back, relax, and read on
and thanks for taking the time to take a look!
#5 – Farlight (Game Salute)
Farlight is an auction/bidding, tile placement and
resource management designed by Nick Sibicky and published by Game Salute. The game puts players in the role of a
corporation that is setting out into the galaxy to explore, colonize and gain
resources from other planets that they come across. The players will start each turn by bidding
on different modules for their ships and on different missions and will then
take the pieces and build them into a spacecraft that can complete said
mission. This game just looks like a lot
of fun and I’m looking forward to trying it out as a demo while I’m at Gen Con.
#4 – Alien Artifacts (Portal Games)
Alien Artifacts is a 4X, card drafting, multi-use card game
designed by Marcin Senior Ropka and Viola Kijowska and published by Portal
Games. This game puts players in the
role of an interplanetary faction that is sending out vessels to research and
expand their power into the further reaches of the galaxy. Players will get three cards to start a turn
and then have to check on how to spend them.
There are two different resources on each of these cards but the players
are only allowed to choose one to use.
They need to make hard decision which will allow them to build large,
powerful starships, develop technology, discover planets and complete trades
with other planets. This game looks like
a bunch of fun as it seems to shorten and streamline the usual 4X gameplay and
creates a smooth looking card game with it.
This is definitely high on my list of games to demo while at Gen Con.
#3 – Dinosaur Island (Pandasaurus Games)
Dinosaur Island is a worker placement, set collection,
tile placement game designed by Jonathan Gilmour and Brian Lewis and published
by Pandasaurus Games. The game puts the
players in the role of scientists and developers on an island that is being
created as an amusement park with living dinosaurs. If this sounds like a terrible idea then you
would be correct! And you’ve probably
watched Jurassic Park as well! Okay,
back to the game. Players will be using
tile placement to build different exhibits and rides in the park in order to
get the most visitors and create the most exciting park. To do this, players will use the worker
placement parks to gather DNA and create these different dinosaurs and then
place them into the different enclosures.
The problems come in a later phase when the dinosaurs can escape and
start eating the visitors. Make sure to
tighten security or else your park will be overrun and the visitors eaten. I think this game looks great and really want
to try it out!
#2 – Fallout (Fantasy Flight Games)
Fallout is a co-operative, hand management, exploration
game designed by Andrew Fischer and Nathan Hajek and published by Fantasy
Flight Games. This game puts the players
into the role of a survivor in the IP of the popular video game series,
Fallout. The survivors are put into the
middle of a post-apocalyptic wasteland with little knowledge of what is ahead
and a sole objective to keep them going in the beginning. They’ll have to use card play and dice
rolling in order to explore the map, defeat enemies and grow the skills of
their character if they are to win. As
the players advance the game they’ll have more objectives to complete and of
different varieties. I absolutely love
this video game series; it is one of my favorites, so when I heard about this
release it jumped way up my list. I am
really hoping that they have a demo of this game (even if it is a short one) at
Gen Con because I’d love to try it out!
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 is a co-operative, set
collection, hand management game designed by Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau and
published by Z-Man Games. This game puts
players into the role of a character 71 years after a massive plague ravages
the world. They are living out on the
sea in floating stations where the lasting vestiges of society are fighting to
keep open a network of the largest cities in the world. Unfortunately many of the cities that are
farthest away from the safe havens are falling out of contact. The players will each take a survivor and bring
supplies to these cities and go off to explore the world and see what has
become of those missing areas. I
absolutely adored Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 and I can’t wait to try Season
2! I like how the story seems to be a
continuation but it seems that new people could jump straight in because they
are stand alone. I can’t wait for this
title, it will definitely be an amazing experience just like its predecessor.
Other demos of note:
- Massive Darkness (CMON)
- Merlin (Queen Games)
Alright, there is the list of my top 5 games that are
being demoed but not for sale at Gen Con.
There is at least a couple on here that I’d buy sight unseen due to the
pedigree and many more that I’d need to hear more about. So that is (possibly) the end of my Gen Con
series. I may come back after the
convention and do one last post about what I did/saw there but I’m not quite
sure yet. Thanks so much for taking the
time to look through these 6 posts. They
have been a blast making and I am really looking forward to the games on these
lists. Until next time, game on!
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