How did it go? Any recommendations?
I went to a board game trade fair (“Spiel doch! Am Bodensee”). I had my kids with me, so I did mostly play family and kids games with them, but also found cough some cough games for me. But now I’m broke LOL.
Anyway, I welcome Hens (“Hennen”), Factory 42 (german edition; signed by the designer), Dune:Imperium and Everdell to my collection. I also got bear and puma tokens for Cryptid, as missing an areal and needing to correct a yes/no was always a strong hint to someone’s rule and has ruined a game already a few times.
My kids also got some new games, but the only one of them, that I liked personally was Café del Gatto
Damn. That was this weekend? We thought about going as well but lost sight of it.
No, the weekend before: 02.06.23 - 04.06.23
It was really nice. Some huge games in the entrance hall (e.g. Carcassonne with ~25x25cm tiles) and an exhibition Halle filled about 2/3 with booths of game shops, game designers and game publishers and about 1/3 of the hall full of tables with chairs and a huge booth where you could lend games for free to try them out. See also their flyer:
I’m currently in the honeymoon phase with Innovation, a small but wild and cut-throat, kind of abstract civilization style card game originally released in 2010. I played it twice with my girlfriend now and she won both times, but losing is also fun here, simply because so much chaotic stuff will happen. It seems that so many different strategies are possible that no two games will feel similar.
I heard that some people dislike it for the chaos it contains, but I hope I can get some people from my usual gaming group interested so that I can play more often.
There will also soon be a Kickstarter for an updated version which I am excited for.
Kodama!
A cute Japanese tree-spirit creatures inspired board game about growing a tree and earning leaf points over three seasons. Whoever gets the most points wins! Takes around 30 minutes to play.
Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition - nice Variation to the original, better for 2.
Imperium:Legends - interesting and deep civilisation deck builder. We have both this and Classics, which means tons of civs for lot of replayability
Avatar Rising. Fun game, more difficult than I’d thought (we were three players). And they really nailed the heroes/villains abilities for the lore of the game
