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New Game Round-up: Eclipse, Atlantis Rising, and Finca to Return in 2018

New Game Round-up: Eclipse, Atlantis Rising, and Finca to Return in 2018
Board Game: Eclipse
• With one week remaining in 2017, I'm clearing out the inbox in order to start the new year — and welcome the flood of announcements ahead of the early year conventions — afresh, and I can't believe what I'm finding in there. Did you already know, for example, that a second edition of Touko Tahkokallio's Eclipse will be released in 2018 from publisher Lautapelit.fi? I tweeted about the announcement when it showed up in late October, but with my eyes on SPIEL '17, I never posted about that space game in this space. Dang.

Lautapelit.fi promises new graphic design for the game that maintains the symbology of the first edition; a full line of Ship Pack 1 miniatures; new miniatures for ancients, GCDS, orbitals, and more; custom combat dice and plastic inlays; fiction from "award-winning science fiction novelist Johanna Sinisalo" to build the setting of the game's world; and "Fine tuned game play".

• Onimaru is a cooperative dice-placement game in the works from Stephen Avery and Big Kid Games in which you're invited to "experience Eastern mythology as you protect the villages from terrible Oni and their hoardlings".

• Windup War from Jessica Chu, Katie Khau, and Bellwether Games is a game of quick combat in which 2-6 players simultaneously program one of six cute toy-based factions in the hope of scoring three points before anyone else or being the last one with toys still moving.


Board Game: Windup War


Board Game: Magic: The Gathering – Explorers of Ixalan
Board Game: Atlantis Rising (First Edition)
Board Game: Finca
• In November 2017, Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering – Explorers of Ixalan, which appears to be an free-for-all game using four decks that focus on the four factions in the Ixalan release for the Magic: The Gathering CCG, but with an island of map tiles that players explore during the game, with each tile giving its discoverer a bonus to use or quest to fulfill while trying to wipe out everyone else. Interesting way to bleed Magic into the world of board games that keeps the focus on the regular MTG cards and gameplay.

• Galen Ciscell's Atlantis Rising, first published in 2012 by Z-Man Games, will be released in a revised edition in 2018 by Elf Creek Games with art by Vincent Dutrait.

• Another reprint candidate for 2018 is Wolfgang Sentker and Ralf zur Linde's Finca, with franjos Spieleverlag's Franz-Josef Herbst promising that this new version will keep the original art and design, with the wooden pieces from the original 2009 production by Hans im Glück. Herbst plans to include the Finca: El Razul expansion in this edition, with rules in at least German, English, and French. In July 2017, Herbst was in talks with a U.S. distribution partner about release of the game in the U.S., and I'm sure that distribution will happen one way or another given how awesome and desirable that game is.

Let's see what else I find in the inbox in the next few days...

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