The homage to Zelda doesn’t end with the logo, however. Let’s get this out of the way first: Tiny Epic Quest is gorgeous, with its faux- Zelda aesthetic and vibrant color palette. Folding in arcane vortices, escalators, mall security, and a campaign book only escalates the craziness.
Actually, there is some communication involved: a big red pawn that you can anxiously slap down in front of a teammate to tell them to make that obvious move right now, please. As if that wasn’t hard enough, the players don’t control the heroes directly instead, each player takes control of one direction of movement, so one player can move any hero to the right, someone else can move anyone down, et cetera. Playing against a sand timer and with a strict ban on verbal or visual communication, players must coordinate to get each hero to his or her favorite store, steal some equipment, and get out. This isn’t a scene from a Terry Pratchett novel it’s the very weird premise of the equally weird cooperative game, Magic Maze. Magic Maze by Kasper LappĪ mage, a warrior, an elf, and a dwarf walk into a shopping mall. If you’d rather play spy-vs-spy than cooperatively, it’s a great time to pick up the original Codenames ( see the Entropy review), released in 2015, or one of its many themed editions, from Disney to Marvel. It also adds a campaign mode that gradually increases the difficulty as the players retrieve their secret agents from cities across the globe. Codenames Duet expands on the success of the original with a cooperative variant intended for two players taking turns as spymaster and guesser, although it can also be played in teams. For instance, the clue “Newton 3” can be given to clue the words Mass, Force, and Scientist. In this insanely popular party game, two competing “spymasters” study a grid of twenty-five words and try to give single-word clues to help their teammates find the hidden agents while avoiding assassins or agents of the other team. From now on, though, he’ll be known as the designer of Codenames. He’d done silly party games like Bunny Bunny Moose Moose and Pictomania, but they were oddities in his catalog.
Blurbs by Byron Alexander Campbell (Tabletop Games Editor).īest “Easy Entry” Games of 2017 Codenames Duet by Vlaada Chvátil & Scot Eatonīefore 2015, Czech designer Vlaada Chvátil was best known for big, genre-bursting game designs that found humor in their own complexity-games like Galaxy Trucker, Space Alert, Dungeon Lords/Petz, Mage Knight, and Through the Ages. Games in this list belong to the “Easy Entry” category, perfect for family get-togethers, parties, or whenever you don’t feel like digesting a twenty-page rulebook. This list brings together some of our favorite board games and card games published in 2017, as well as “new to us” games published in previous years.
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We continue our “Best of 2017″ series curated by the entire CCM-Entropy community and present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at Entropy, as well as nominations from our readers.
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