Weekend recap
What have you played this weekend?
We had a great weekend of gaming finally - not overly hot, and not many chores to accomplish! The perfect recipe to play games. 😁
We definitely wanted to continue our playthrough of ❄️ Frosthaven, so we basically dedicated Saturday to just playing it. 😅 After getting through the first hurdles of relearning the rules, it quickly became addictive again: unlocking stickers for the map, gathering loot and learning new skills, and skillfully maneuvering around in the dungeon as you fight monster after monster. I can’t wait for our next scenario! 🥰
First on the Sunday menu was 🧠 Neodreams, a tableau-building worker placement game about running a company in an extraordinary science-fictiony industry: crafting and selling dreams to customers! The game has a new twist on worker placement and there are 3 types of cards that each activate differently.
📯 Open Season is a really amazing card drafting game. With a deceptively simple game structure you’d expect it to be a cakewalk, but placing cards on your board has a lot of nuances and rules, and trying to perfectly satisfy every requirement is almost impossible. 😉
🐐 Dance of Ibexes is basically ‘6 Nimmt’ or ‘Take 5’, but with some twists and awesome chunky wooden tiles instead of cards. We had surprisingly fun time trying it out despite it being for up to 8 players, but it will shine with 4+ players!
🌳 Forest Shuffle is THE card-drafting tableau-builder game. It is just incredibly fun, especially now with the Alpine expansion added too. Can’t wait to grab the new expansion Woodland Edge. 🙃
💃 Tango is a 2p trick-taking game. There are more and more of these and I’m here for it! Its main twist is that players have both cards in hand and in front of them, and each trick will thus consist of 4 cards - the visible cards on the table add a lot to the strategy!
Finally, 🐈 Pocket Cats is a really cool quick-and-simple tile flipping game for 2. You just flip up tiles of a 5x5 grid, moving them according to their rules. When all tiles are flipped, you check whose cats managed to get more prey.
