Thematically, ‘Set A Watch’ sets the stage fairly well; after a day of adventuring, your party of adventurers survive against the darkness, battling against creatures while trying forestall the return of greater evils. One adventurer must tend to the fire each turn, which in turn ‘illuminates’ the first couple of
The LOOP is a cooperative deck builder where players take the role of time traveling agents sent to stop a villain from completing a destructive time travel loop. Using an interesting ‘cube tower’ mechanism that randomly will spit out cubes players have to deal with lest various historic eras become
My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game is a cooperative deck builder game where players take turns trying to build up their deck while facing down increasing challenges before the time runs out. Players have to manage a limited number of actions, trying to accumulate resources to spend beating
Avatar The Last Airbender: Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative game where players build up a team of characters while they try to fight villains and have a showdown to take down the entire Fire Nation in a selection of final battles. This is done by taking turns rolling dice,
Before Terraforming Mars was a huge hit, Jacob Fryxelius had a far more humble game called Space Station that involved taking turns putting down various ‘modules’ that represent things like living quarters or military installations as players build the best space station. Terraforming Mars came and went, and came again
Massive Darkness 2 is a co-op dungeon crawler for 1 to 6 players. Players pick from different classes of ‘Lightbringers’ that head into hell to defeat the various demons threatening humanity. Starting at level one, and barely equipped for the job, players will find more gear, learn new skills and
Summoner Wars (Second Edition) is a 2 player game that is a remake of the previously released game of the same title where players summon various creatures represented by cards to a simple tactical board to battle to the death. From here these creatures maneuver around and attack, with the
Lunar Outpost is a 2-4 player strategy game where players take on the role of different astronauts in charge of building a moon base in a limited number of turns. With a very short limit of total actions, players must work together prioritizing gaining various ores then building different modules
