Here's an overview of the 2-4 player game Caldera Park:
Caldera Park is an interactive puzzle-game that achieves a perfect balance between strategic planning and luck. Your turn comprises two simple steps: First, you choose a species and a landscape from a limited selection. Then, each player must place one of their tokens showing that species onto one of their park spaces showing that landscape. What seems no trouble at first grows more and more challenging and exciting as the available spaces become fewer and fewer. And while the choices of your fellow players can disrupt your plans, you must also take into account unpredictable weather tokens.
After five rounds, the game ends with a final scoring phase in which you score not only for your most valuable herds, but also for cleverly populating certain landscapes.
In Raising Robots, you are a famous inventor seeking to assemble the greatest collection of robots. Each round, you simultaneously choose and perform two or more actions: upgrade, assemble, design, fabricate, recycle. Every action will be performed with a variable amount of power to make the action better or worse. However, the most powerful actions will also help your opponents.
Whoever has the most points after eight rounds wins.
I'm amused that we have three card games on BGG's SPIEL '22 Preview with roughly the same name, albeit with differences in gameplay between them: https://t.co/0dYVh2qr9z.
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) July 18, 2022
I'm a huge fan of card games, so these are the types of titles I notice most... —WEM pic.twitter.com/r1hRpHzJx5
Funny thing — Italian publisher Horrible Guild has now announced a "split" game of its own: The Great Split from designers Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva, with this 2-7 player game due out in Q4 2022 and playing as follows:
You start each round by splitting your cards into two groups, then you pass your wallet to the player on your left — but only one group of cards will be given back to you. You split, they choose! Don't despair, though, because while your opponent is looking at your split, you also receive a similar offer from the player on your right, so choose wisely. When your hand is complete, play your cards to add all those riches to your collection.
Each type of riches awards you prestige points in different ways, so maintain a balanced collection of gems, keep an eye on the value of the art market as it evolves, and pile up priceless tomes. Depending on how each player builds their collection, different riches will take on a different value for each of them. Show off your best haggling skills in crafting your split, and create the perfect offer to push your opponent to take what you want them to take...leaving you with the tastiest loot!
Be prepared for when the mid-game scorings are triggered. Manage your gold reserves sensibly to get additional riches, and make your collection just right!