Day 4 recap

SPIEL has ended. Sunday was surprisingly good. We found many empty tables and most of the crowds of Saturday were gone. So we managed to play some stuff again 😊, also did a last sweep of every hall to see if we missed something - or perhaps in search for last minute discounts. 😅 The saddest part is when people start dismantling their booths and put the demo games away. 😥 

Let's check some games!

🐺 The Wolves

I really wanted to try this one. An area control game where everyone plays as a wolf pack; hunting, building dens and recruiting lone wolves. The unique twist is in its action selection: you have to flip two-sided tiles matching the terrain where you want to act as a cost. On their other side there are other types of terrain, so your options keep changing.

I wasn't sure about buying, though the table presence is exceptional. The demo left us with somewhat poor impressions - it ended after the first scoring which we reached after literally 2 turns. So we barely did any actions. Even if it was a full length game, would it be over in 8 turns? 🤔 Maybe because we played with 5 players…

👊 Vengeance Roll and Fight

This is a roll and write in which you play as an action hero, storming the den of the villain, beating up enemy henchmen and fighting the boss himself. It has a kind of speed element as you can take dice from a common pool if you already allocated some of your dice. You can activate abilities and items and try to move around and defeat everyone in the most optimal way.

🌚 Violet and the Grumpy Nisse

We heard about this game before SPIEL and it sounded really intriguing. True hidden gem potential! It's a two-player trick-taking game with a lot of interesting additions. We ordered the game immediately after learning the rules (unfortunately their copies for sale haven't arrived in time) - so we will cover this game in more detail later.

There are 2 demos of upcoming games we were ecstatic to play on Sunday:  Unconscious Mind and Books of Time, but I really want to highlight them in their own posts, so you can look forward to those 😁