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The more unexpected of these two releases is CloudAge, a 1-4 player game from designers Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender and new Austrian publisher Nanox Games. Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:
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Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" sabotaged countless oil production sites to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental catastrophe had disastrous effects on the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel above the dried-out landscape in your airships, searching for a better life. You visit cities, send out drones to collect resources, and battle Cloud militia.
An innovative sleeving mechanism makes a new, more immersive, form of resource gathering possible. Players try to predict which cloud-covered terrain will contain the desired amount of resources, or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships, or attract new crew members.
CloudAge is a mix of engine-building, deck-building, and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to start playing quickly, with new elements being introduced into the game as players progress through the chapters. While you play, you also experience and help guide the story. If you prefer, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as single scenarios.
Pfister notes that CloudAge is lighter than Great Western Trail and Maracaibo and heavier than Isle of Skye, making the game something like a "Kennerspiel Plus" in his words.An innovative sleeving mechanism makes a new, more immersive, form of resource gathering possible. Players try to predict which cloud-covered terrain will contain the desired amount of resources, or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships, or attract new crew members.
CloudAge is a mix of engine-building, deck-building, and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to start playing quickly, with new elements being introduced into the game as players progress through the chapters. While you play, you also experience and help guide the story. If you prefer, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as single scenarios.
The German edition of CloudAge will be co-published by Nanox and dlp games, with dlp games additionally having an English-language edition of CloudAge that it will distribute in Europe.
"Camp Capstone" closed with an interview with Pfister about CloudAge, with some details about a Maracaibo expansion in the closing minutes:
[Update, August 18, 2020: Arno Steinwender is co-designer of CloudAge, but his name is not included on the initial box design, something that publisher Nanox Games told me it's correcting.]
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Iberian Gauge is for 3-5 players, and stock ownership is an important factor in this game, with each shareholder expanding the railroad. There are five railroads in the game, and leased track, stock value bonuses and connection bonuses add to the drive for expansion. Most cash + stock value wins this game, which lasts about 90 minutes.
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