New Game Round-up: Treats from Renegade, Beasts from Bézier, and Glorious Feats from Ninja Division

New Game Round-up: Treats from Renegade, Beasts from Bézier, and Glorious Feats from Ninja Division
Board Game: Pie Town
Board Game: Sundae Split
• After a wildly successful Gen Con (not to mention a fine 2017 overall), U.S. publisher Renegade Game Studios is going to close out the year as one closes out a meal — with dessert! Specifically, Renegade has announced two titles — Sundae Split by Nate Bivins, and Pie Town: Spies, Lies, and Apple Pies by newcomer Daniel Fremgen — with both due out in November 2017. Here's a brief rundown of the two games:

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In Sundae Split, players try to build the best ice cream sundae from the ingredients at hand. Get just the right mix of toppings and flavors, but avoid the vegetables! At the end, each sundae is scored and the player who made the best sundae wins the game.

In more detail, one player splits ingredients into piles, and the other players take turns choosing one. As the splitter, you get the last pile. You have to be clever and a little sneaky to get the ingredients you want. Collect the best mix of toppings and flavors to make the most valuable ice cream sundae and win the game!
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Welcome to Pie Town, a community built on apples and butter. Business here is no cake walk, so manage your operation well and keep your secret recipe secret.

Pie Town: Spies, Lies, and Apple Pies is a worker-dice placement game with hidden information. You need to manage your constantly changing workforce to harvest, bake, and sell pies while deducing other players' secret recipes! Now is your chance to become the best pie shop in town!
Ice cream vs. pie! Seems like a sales challenge in the offing, not to mention an opportunity for booth treats at end-of-the-year conventions...

Board Game: Werebeasts
• Home of the werewolf Bézier Games is presenting a different take on the were-genre with Jeremie Kletzkine's Werebeasts, a game due out in February 2018 in which you (gasp) bid for creatures, not take on their role while slapping your leg to keep others from figuring out who you are. An overview:

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You are a key player in the lucrative but dangerous business of collecting werebeasts. Armed with only your good looks and several cans of indescribably tasty werechow, you must bid for the werebeasts you need — and also for the ones you don't in hopes of throwing your opponents off track.

Your fellow collectors in Werebeasts are also collecting certain creatures that have the most value to them. If you can hide your intentions long enough, you'll be rewarded. If you can make it to the end of the game without getting caught, you just might win.
Board Game Publisher: Ninja Division
Ninja Division has signed a deal with Games Workshop to publish a card game based on GW's Warhammer Fantasy world, with John Cadice and David Freeman being the designers in charge of Doomseeker, which is due out in Q2 2018:

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In the card game Doomseeker, players take on the role of a mighty dwarf slayer. Each player's character is sworn by the slayer's oath to seek a glorious death in battle for a crime committed or stain on that dwarf's honor. The slayers eschew worldly pursuits, dye their beards and hair in fierce and fiery reds and oranges, tattoo their ruddy flesh, take up their weapons, and wander the old world seeking their doom battling monsters and enemies of their race.

The Doomseeker card game pits players against one another to see who can die the most glorious death! Press your luck and challenge the denizens and monsters of the Old World, with each victory bringing you more glory, and ultimately your death can be met at the hands of a truly worthy foe!

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