What's hot right now?
Let’s check out some hot games again!
This time not necessarily from the BGG list, but some titles that have caught our attention lately.
I just love researching games and reading news about them. 😁
❓ Do you have any secret tip for us, perhaps an under the radar game? 🧐
Without further ado...
🚂 Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game
Normally I’m not a train person, but spice it with Lovecraftian mythos, add some crazy cultists and a journey through the Dreamlands and I am more than hyped. Finally a train game I can get behind! 😄 Especially with Adam Kwapinski’s name on the box, who has been a real gold mine in the last years, I think we have something great cooking!
It will be a cooperative game, in which you are trying to stop a hideous ritual and ensure the trains arrives where it’s supposed to. Can’t wait to find out more. 😁
☢️ Nucleum
The newest heavy euro coming from Board&Dice makes us excited for it immediately, especially after seeing it is made by Simone Luciani and Dávid Turczi. It will play in an alternate reality, where the invention of the Nucleum in the 19th Century fuels a huge industrial revolution. You play as industrialitst, trying to ride the economic and technical growth to become the top dog. There are many mechanics listed, so I’m very interested to see how it plays. ☺️
🍄 Undergrove
Another entry into the mushroom / nature themed games, co-designed by Elizabeth Hargrave. Announced as a medium-weight 3X game, it looks like the thematic integration will be quite strong: you’re playing as a tree in a symbiotic relationship with funghi, spreading your seedlings and transferring resources to help them grow. An interesting one! 👍
🏘️ Tangram City
This is a much smaller game, but intriguing nonetheless. A new Uwe Rosenberg tile-layer, but from a Korean publisher. I like when standard puzzle games are used as innovative ideas (e.g. Sudoku in Hiroba) - here you get Tangrams. Differently shaped polygons which you use to build your city, trying to balance city and park spaces, and conforming to the rectangular shape. Sounds fun! 🙃
