In any case, with GAMA Expo 2020 opening today — and BGG's livestream coverage of that show starting on Tuesday, March 10 — U.S. publisher Bézier Games has announced three new titles, with one of them releasing at each of its three largest shows for the remainder of the year.
At Origins Game Fair 2020, Bézier will debut Ted Alspach's Silver Coin, the third title in its Silver series of card games following Silver itself and Silver Bullet. Like those earlier two titles, Silver Coin is for 2-4 players, is built on the mechanisms of CABO and the public domain card game Golf, and can be combined with the other Silver titles. Here's an overview of the game:
Call for a vote when you think you have the fewest werewolves, but be careful as everyone else gets one more turn to save their own village first...
Silver Coin is a fast and engaging traditional card game with a werewolf twist! Everyone starts the game with five face-down cards, with everyone being able to see two cards of their choice. Cards are numbered 0-13, with the number showing how many werewolves the character on that card attracts, and each character (number) has a different special power.
On a turn, you draw the top card of the deck or discard pile, then either discard it to use the power of the card (but only if it came from the deck), discard it without using the power (ditto), or replace one or more of your face-down cards with this card; you can replace multiple cards only if they bear the same number, and you must reveal the cards to prove this, being penalized if you're wrong.
• Gen Con 2020 will see the debut of Whistle Mountain from Scott Caputo (whose game Whistle Stop was released by Bézier in 2017) and Luke Laurie, who's best known as co-designer of The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire. While Whistle Mountain is a standalone game, it takes its setting from where you might have ended a game of Whistle Stop:
Because the resources you gather are determined by what players build, each game evolves differently, resulting in endless replayability. You have to choose between acquiring new abilities and enhancements for your airships and workers or building all sorts of contraptions as quickly as possible in order to achieve victory on Whistle Mountain.
Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building game. Transparent tiles allow your route to overlap your opponents' tracks, winding you along from station to station. Robots efficiently upgrade and adjust your abilities, leveraging unique goals to maximize points. By the end of the game, the game board has morphed into a modern subway map, with brightly-colored routes connecting stations all over the city.
Maglev Metro contains two unique maps, with more scheduled for release in 2021.