New Game Round-up: Portal Unleashes Hunters and Steel Police, Lion Games Delivers Heroes and Aliens, & Sit Down Mashes Goths with Royalty

New Game Round-up: Portal Unleashes Hunters and Steel Police, Lion Games Delivers Heroes and Aliens, & Sit Down Mashes Goths with Royalty
Board Game: Theseus: The Dark Orbit – Hunters
Board Game: Neuroshima Hex! 3.0: Steel Police
• Portal Games is expanding its offerings at Spiel 2015 with an expansion for Theseus: The Dark Orbit, a new faction titled Hunters from Theseus base game designer Michał Oracz and Andrzej Sosnowski, a fan of the game who had an idea that Portal liked and wanted to develop. Here's a summary of how the Hunters work:

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Theseus: The Dark Orbit – Hunters, the second faction expansion for Theseus, contains a faction that employs trickery and subterfuge to their advantage. Hiding in the shadows, the Hunters can steal bonus cards and upgrade tokens, use enemy cards through hacking, and remotely trigger their own action cards. The Hunters also have the unique ability of leaving Theseus by hiding in their capsule just outside the space station.
Theseus: The Dark Orbit – Hunters debuts at Spiel 2015 in October and is due out in the U.S. in late November 2015 with a $19 MSRP.

• Portal Games also plans to release the 3.0 version of Neuroshima Hex! Steel Police — the same army as released in 2012, but with new graphics to match the current version of Neuroshima Hex! — in October 2015.

Board Game: Ekö
• At Spiel 2015, Belgian publisher Sit Down! will have Ekö, an abstract strategy game from Henri Kermarrec in which 2-4 players construct towers and villages and try to take out one another's Emperor.

• Sit Down! will follow this design with the decidedly less serious Goths Save The Queen, a team-based game in which players try to match their orders with those of their teammate in order to advance, load artillery, etc. so that they can save the Queen first.

Board Game: Heroes
Adam Kwapiński's Heroes from Lion Games and REBEL.pl was released in mid-2015, with this title being the first fantasy-based game from Fabryka Gier Historycznych (which created the Lion Games imprint to distinguish their offerings). The generic Heroes name represents the legendary approach to the subject matter, with the players inhabiting a fantasy world and using classic elemental powers to confront classic fantasy creatures.

• The next title from Kwapiński and Lion Games, Nemesis, presents players with another classic genre situation:

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You are a part of a crew sent to explore distant planets and find valuable minerals. Your ship is heading back towards Earth, but suddenly the system wakes you all from hibernation. You soon find out that you are not alone on board Nemesis... You enter a deadly game.

In Nemesis, you take a role of a spaceship crew member (navigator, mechanic, medic, etc.), exploring the rooms on the vessel called the Nemesis (drawn and located randomly on the board) and aim to complete your secret goal. However, all the players share the main goal: Return to Earth safely, avoiding or fighting various forms of alien life appearing on the ship each round. You must work together, but if a character dies, they are not eliminated from the game; instead they join the alien side and start playing against the rest of the team. The game combines cooperation with bluffing, backstabbing and typical elements of an s-f survival horror adventure.

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