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New Game Round-up: Arrange Tours, Climb the Rockies, Ignore Privacy, and Stare at an Elf

New Game Round-up: Arrange Tours, Climb the Rockies, Ignore Privacy, and Stare at an Elf
Board Game: Tour Operator
The first three conventions of the year (for me anyway) are over, so now I have a couple of weeks to catch up before heading to Reno, Nevada for the 2018 GAMA Trade Show, where BGG will once again be livestreaming interviews with publishers and demonstrations of upcoming games. Here are some of the titles announced in the past month while I was hopping from show to show:

• Dutch publisher Keep Exploring Games has announced its intended SPIEL '18 release: Nestor Tyr's Tour Operator. Here's an overview of this 2-4 player game:

Quote:
You manage a well-known travel agency, and it's full with tourists that each have different wishes and demands. Some tourists like culture or nature, while others are looking for a place to party or do some shopping. Some are patient, others impatient. Some demand to travel business class, while others want to sleep in a VIP room and still others are fine sleeping in a dorm. To make it even more complicated, they all want to stay a different number of weeks — and I shouldn't need to say this, but they want to sleep in clean beds and travel in clean planes that have enough fuel. Every city on the board can be scored only once, so always keep an eye on your rivals to ensure they don't score a city you were about to profit from!

Thankfully, you can hire employees to calm down impatient guests and help your company out. Whoever manages to make their clients the happiest travelers wins Tour Operator!
Board Game: Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains Expansion
• At Gen Con 2018 in August, Bézier Games will release Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains, an expansion for the Scott Caputo-designed Whistle Stop that includes a 3D mountain range that you insert in the middle of the jigsaw-locked game board, along with new tiles, new shares, new upgrades, and other elements to add to the base game.

• In a BGG blog post, Alexandre Correia details a number of prototypes that will be available for testing at LeiriaCon, the annual Portuguese game convention that will take place in 2018 on March 1-4. What might you find there? Multiple games from Nuno Sentieiro and Paulo Soledade (Humanitas from Quined Games, Arraial from MEBO Games, and Brasil from What's Your Game?); multiple games from Spielworxx (the second edition of Ground Floor from David Short, Captains of the Gulf from Jason Dinger, Throne of Allegoria from Robin Lees and Steve Mackenzie, and Yangtzee from newcomers Rôla and Costa, who also have Primus from WYG; and multiple titles from Frosted Games (Reykholt from Uwe Rosenberg, Gebietsmanager from Stefan Feld game, WonderBuilder from Sophia Wagner, Cooper Island from Andreas Odendahl, and In Via Nota from newcomer Carsten Lauber. Mac Gerdts is also supposed to have Concordia: Venus, according to the convention organizers. Wish I could have hung out in Europe for another week, but dang, that's a lot of time away from home...

Board Game: Privacy
• In 2018, USAopoly will release a new edition of Reinhard Staupe's party game Privacy, which first appeared on the market in 2004. In the game, players are asked risqué questions and they secretly answer by dropping YES or NO tokens in a voting box. Score points by correctly guessing what the final tally will be, or at least having a closer guess than anyone else.

• Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy will be Kickstarted in May 2018, with Kolossal Games running the campaign for publisher Lautapelit.fi, and a German version of this second edition of the game will be released by Pegasus Spiele in October 2018, although Lautapelit's Toni Niittymaki notes that the price listed on the Pegasus website is incorrect.

• One item (out of an unknown quantity) that I missed seeing at NY Toy Fair 2018 was The Elf on the Shelf: Countdown to Christmas Family Advent Game from Buffalo Games, although taking a closer look at the package seems to reveal a box of activity-laden nightmare fuel rather than a game.

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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