Rise to SPIEL '22 with Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write

Board Game: Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write

• BGG's SPIEL '22 Preview now lists more than 650 titles, with the newest entries being two titles from German publisher dlp games, one of which is Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write, which combines the long-lived Orléans game from company founder Reiner Stockhausen with the modern X-and-write trend courtesy of co-designer Ryan Hendrickson.

Here's an overview of the title:

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In Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write, 1-5 players draft followers that will help them move about France, gather goods, build buildings, establish trading stations, make money, and contribute to beneficial deeds. The player who can best utilize the followers they choose will score the most points and win.

In slightly more detail, each round, a number of follower tiles are pulled from a bag. Players take turns drafting the followers and taking actions that correspond to the follower they've chosen. After all the followers have been drafted, the bag resets until you've exhausted one bag per player.

In the solo mode, you compete directly against Joan of Arc at one of three difficulty levels.

• The other title that dlp games will debut at SPIEL '22 is Rise, a design for 2-4 players from designers Remo Conzadori and Marco Pranzo that takes one hour to play and that has a bit of a Ganz schon clever feel in how you can progress during play.

Ghosts in the machine?

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In Rise, you assume responsibility for the economic and social development of a city. There are not many limits to your possibilities: On various tracks, you can influence how best to provide for your citizens' well-being, whether through culture, science, or political relations — but all of this can be achieved only in accordance with respect for conservation of the environment and the satisfaction of the population.

The game revolves around ten tracks on which you move your markers to gain further effects and gather influence. The unique and innovative card mechanism, which includes events and tough decisions, will change your decision making from round to round.

Once twelve rounds have been played, players count their points to see who was able to accumulate the most influence in the city.

Both titles will be released in North America by Capstone Games, with Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw & Write due out in Q1 2023 and Rise due out in Q4 2022.