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We already knew about one of the titles — Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame from Trzewiczek and Przemysław Rymer — as we recorded an overview of the game at the GAMA Trade Show in March 2017. Trzewiczek described Detective as a modern take on Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. Here's our current game description, followed by the GAMA presentation:
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In Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame, 1-4 players take on the role of investigators working for the government agency ANTERES. Investigators are given login credentials to the ANTERES online database that contains data about suspects, witnesses, and documentation from arrests and trials related to their case. Players are free to use the investigation manual, ANTERES database, and any other online resources they may find to help them solve the case.
Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame brings classic puzzle-solving gameplay into the 21st century with the introduction of online elements. This story-driven, cooperative game includes five scenarios that can be played independently, or worked through as a complete campaign. The game blends printed elements, with a complementary online component that allows players to investigate clues through their favorite internet-connected devices.
Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame brings classic puzzle-solving gameplay into the 21st century with the introduction of online elements. This story-driven, cooperative game includes five scenarios that can be played independently, or worked through as a complete campaign. The game blends printed elements, with a complementary online component that allows players to investigate clues through their favorite internet-connected devices.
Start at 7:10 for the overview of Detective
Portal Games plans to release Detective: A Modern Crime Boardgame at SPIEL '18 in October, and you better believe that I have already started the SPIEL '18 Preview. Gotta stay on top of these things!
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Each player has a monolith that serves as their headquarters, and each player seeds their monolith with three tokens that provide special abilities. When an opponent damages your monolith, you remove the top layer to expose the first token, gaining its special ability, so being attacked can actually make you stronger — albeit while still moving you toward defeat...
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• Imperial Settlers: We Didn't Start The Fire continues the song-based names of the first two Empire Packs for Imperial Settlers. As for what's inside the box, WDSTF contains fifty new cards along with (if I understood correctly) borders that are placed between each pair of players. I'm not sure what the borders do, but I'm sure you can imagine effects that would matter for such things.
• Alien Artifacts: Discovery adds fifty new cards to the Alien Artifacts base game as well as a new type of card featuring alien resources.
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Like its predecessor, Voyage of the Beagle, this expansion follows another great explorer, Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett. His expedition went deep into the Amazon rainforest in the search for a hidden civilization, the mythical Lost City of Z.
Robinson Crusoe: The Lost City of Z introduces new mechanisms of horror and sanity into the game! Discover new characters, beasts, and mystery deck cards! The expansion includes five missions that form a long and epic campaign!
Aside from this expansion, Portal Games plans to launch a Robinson Crusoe app that functions along the lines of its First Martians app in that it will introduce new events and adventures to the base game without requiring additional components.Robinson Crusoe: The Lost City of Z introduces new mechanisms of horror and sanity into the game! Discover new characters, beasts, and mystery deck cards! The expansion includes five missions that form a long and epic campaign!
No release dates were given for any of the expansions other than sometime in 2018. Trzewiczek promised more details at the 2018 GAMA Trade Show in March, and he stated that other items might be added to the release calendar as well, although they'd likely be promos and other small goodies.
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