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Human beings are at the edge of existence — but they don't know it yet! Mother nature is about to strike back and reduce mankind to save the planet from being destroyed by the species that calls itself "homo sapiens".
In Viroid, players cooperate in taking the role of a virus and trying to infect people all over the world. They use events like the Olympic Games to spread their deadly effects. To be a step ahead of the human scientists, the players develop special features like infection by blood, infection via animals, or resistance against medicine, heat or cold.
The game is played in clockwise order. On your turn, draw an event card, which forces you to take back one or more of your tokens from the board (healing a city). If it is the last one in this city, the "healing token" on the specific track moves forward and you lose if it meets your marker on that track. The event card also gives you some additional "DNS points", which are akin to money. In the second step of your turn, you spread your virus depending only the methods for infection you have already developed. You gain additional DNS-points for each infection, such as placing new tokens onto the board in the cities. Third, you develop (buy for DNS) more features for your virus like infection via animal, resistance against cold or medicine, or your ability to kill people. Finally, you throw dice according to your skill for killing, and depending on the result, you replace your tokens on the board with dead tokens.
The players win if they have placed all dead tokens in the cities. They lose if the draw pile runs out or the human beings have made enough healing steps on the specific track.
Will you be able to save the planet and reduce the population of the greatest danger for the world — human beings?
OSTIA Spiele has posted rules in English and German for Viroid, and it's taking preorders for this €100, mostly handmade game edition of two hundred copies on its website for pick-up at SPIEL '18, although it's not guaranteeing the preorders, noting that "The closer your order is to the fair date, the less likely it is that we will have your copy ready there". The game is mostly handmade, after all...In Viroid, players cooperate in taking the role of a virus and trying to infect people all over the world. They use events like the Olympic Games to spread their deadly effects. To be a step ahead of the human scientists, the players develop special features like infection by blood, infection via animals, or resistance against medicine, heat or cold.
The game is played in clockwise order. On your turn, draw an event card, which forces you to take back one or more of your tokens from the board (healing a city). If it is the last one in this city, the "healing token" on the specific track moves forward and you lose if it meets your marker on that track. The event card also gives you some additional "DNS points", which are akin to money. In the second step of your turn, you spread your virus depending only the methods for infection you have already developed. You gain additional DNS-points for each infection, such as placing new tokens onto the board in the cities. Third, you develop (buy for DNS) more features for your virus like infection via animal, resistance against cold or medicine, or your ability to kill people. Finally, you throw dice according to your skill for killing, and depending on the result, you replace your tokens on the board with dead tokens.
The players win if they have placed all dead tokens in the cities. They lose if the draw pile runs out or the human beings have made enough healing steps on the specific track.
Will you be able to save the planet and reduce the population of the greatest danger for the world — human beings?
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• Renegade Game Studios has announced a new edition of Jonathan Ying's Bargain Quest for release in January 2019. In this 2-6 player game, you are a shopkeeper who's trying to sell goods to adventurers before they head off on quests, so draft the right items that will attract buyers to your store.
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• French publisher Ludonaute is releasing a new printing of 2011's Yggdrasil from Cédric Lefebvre and Fabrice Rabellino for what it says is "the last time". Says the company's Anne-Cécile Lefebvre, "We do it because we receive many requests from customers." A revamped version of the design, currently named "Yggdrasil's Chronicles", is in the works for 2019.
Of the thousand copy print run, Ludonaute plans to have 700 copies available at SPIEL '18, with preorders for pick-up in Essen available on its website. The remaining 300 copies will be available through the BGG Store once we pick them up at SPIEL '18 and ship them to the U.S. (Update, Sept. 5: BGG has sold out of these copies! Demand was a lot higher than I would have expected, but what do I know? If Ludonaute doesn't sell all of theirs at SPIEL '18, maybe we can take home what's left...)
Note that this edition contains the original Yggdrasil base game with the Trance rules, but not the materials from the Asgard expansion.
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