As one of these enterprising wizards in Wizards Wanted, you must gather magical experience and coins for your work. Resourcefulness is essential as you pick up helpful mushrooms, buy magical dust from tricky pixies, and navigate the twisted paths and teleportation stones. But don't meander too much. You need to be in good standing with the Royal Palace and earn your Spell License by the end of the game, so get to work!
• Another forthcoming title with unpleasant animals in the title is Trash Pandas from Michael and Lisa Eskue and their own Red Rook Games, with the players being raccoons who are pressing their luck to dig things (cards) from the garbage cans (via die rolls) so that they can collect shiny objects (which are worth points).
• In mid-2017, CMON Limited and Spaghetti Western Games will release Kronia from Halaban, Zatz and Seadha, with the design feeling similar in spirit to a different game designed by the first two-thirds of that team, Sheriff of Nottingham — not because of any specific gameplay actions, but more the atmosphere of trying to outthink and outbluff opponents as to what you're trying to do:
In Kronia, favor tokens are placed in three different temples, then players will make secret offers to these temples over the course of twelve rounds. Everyone starts with the same offer cards, so they must anticipate which Gods other players want to please. Deciding when to spend the more appealing offers and when to hold off can be the difference. In the end, the player with the most points from their favor tokens will be chosen to lead the nation into the future.