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New Game Round-up: Stone Age and Camel Up Get Refreshed, and Key Flow Gets Explained

New Game Round-up: Stone Age and Camel Up Get Refreshed, and Key Flow Gets Explained
Board Game: Stone Age: Anniversary
Board Game: Carcassonne: Safari
• At SPIEL '18, German publisher Hans im Glück plans to release a tenth anniversary edition of Bernd Brunnhofer's Stone Age titled Stone Age: Jubiläumsedition, with this edition of the game featuring a double-sided game board (winter and summer), decorative player pieces, a revised rulebook, two mini-expansions ("The Igloos" and "The Wild Animals"), and a "Winter Is Hard!" variant.

Z-Man Games will release Stone Age: 10th Anniversary in English.

• Hans im Glück will have two other SPIEL '18 releases: Carcassonne: Safari, with this fourth release in its "Carcassonne Around the World" series challenging players to see as many animals as possible as they tile the savannah from scratch, and the yet-to-be-revealed Lift Off.


Board Game: Stone Age: Anniversary


Board Game: Camel Up
Board Game: Camel Up (Second Edition)
• Along the same lines in what might be considered a fourth anniversary edition, German publisher eggertspiele plans to release a new edition of Steffen Bogen's Spiel des Jahres-winning Camel Up at SPIEL '18, an edition that features giant humans looming over a desert instead of a pack of drug-crazed camel caravan. This version also has a new game board design, a new pyramid design, a new player count (3-8 instead of 2-8), engraved dice, and new game modes, including crazy rogue camels that start the race running in the opposite direction.

I've seen lots of comments about this cover ending the "Camel Up or Camel Cup" discussion, but this game's title was always "Camel Up" as confirmed by both the original publisher and co-publisher Pegasus Spiele — at least until Finnish publisher Lautapelit.fi insisted upon calling its licensed Nordic version "Camel Cup", at which point confusion did indeed exist. What's up with that, Finns?! No matter — for me the title will remain the same as it ever was: "Coked-Up Sand Horses".

• In what is now an annual tradition, designer/publisher Richard Breese of R&D Games has published an explanatory GeekList for this newest title, which in this case is Key Flow, co-designed by himself, Sebastian Bleasdale, and Ian Vincent. In the GeekList, Breese explains Key Flow's origins as "Keyflower: The Card Game", how the game developed, the basics of gameplay, and its place in the larger Key series of games.

Buried in that GeekList is a note from Breese that the 2010 title Key Market from David Brain — which vanished from the market immediately upon its release and which typically sells for between $100-200 — will be reissued in the first half of 2019.

Board Game: Key Flow
Board Game: Keyflower
Board Game: Key Market

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