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• In August 2021, U.S. publisher Deep Water Games ran a Kickstarter campaign for Rat Queens: To the Slaughter, a 2-4 player co-operative adventure game from Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim that's based on Kurtis Wiebe's Rat Queens comic series.
Deep Water expects this title to be available at retail in the second half of 2022, and here's what you'll get:
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Forge friendships and find your family as you take on the role of the rat queens in Rat Queens: To the Slaughter. Choose from four rat queens, each with asymmetric and unique playstyles, in order to save Palisade from total destruction. Power up your queen with new abilities and friendship as you take on hordes of monsters. Each queen comes packed with upgradeable abilities you have to spend gold to learn, allowing you to customize your queen differently each game to fit what the party needs!
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Players spend the first half of the game defeating monsters to earn rewards to upgrade their ability deck and stats in order to prepare for the Big Bad hiding in the wake. The more monsters you defeat, the more powerful you become and the more time you have before the Big Bad arrives, with that enemy being determined by which monsters escape. Combat is a simplified version of RPG-style combat with easy-to-learn dice checks for attacks and abilities.
From the first sip to the last drop. Sisters. Warriors. Queens. Friends to the very end.
• Eric Slauson's MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects, a standalone sequel to his 2020 drawing-based party game MonsDRAWsity, is due out in October 2022.Mock-up components at GAMA Expo 2022
Players spend the first half of the game defeating monsters to earn rewards to upgrade their ability deck and stats in order to prepare for the Big Bad hiding in the wake. The more monsters you defeat, the more powerful you become and the more time you have before the Big Bad arrives, with that enemy being determined by which monsters escape. Combat is a simplified version of RPG-style combat with easy-to-learn dice checks for attacks and abilities.
From the first sip to the last drop. Sisters. Warriors. Queens. Friends to the very end.
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Mock-ups at GAMA Expo 2022
• Along similar lines, Sovereign Suns from Aaron Andrew Wilson and John Prather, which is due out in 2023, is a standalone engine-building game in the same universe as Wilson's 2020 release Sovereign Skies.
• And one more: Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House from John Brieger and Marek Tupy is a standalone sequel to Tupy's 2020 roll-and-write game Floor Plan. In this licensed game due out Q4 2022, you get to add on to the Winchester Mystery House by building two stories that fulfill six different building requirements.
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Mock-up at GAMA Expo 2022
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In Block and Key, players take turns placing blocks in a shared area following certain rules in order to score target cards based on what they see from their own point of view. After someone has scored a designated number of cards, players tally points for their completed cards to see who wins.
Inside Up's Conor McGoey notes that all of the components, boards, and supports shown in the image below nest to fit inside a box that's roughly the size of a large square KOSMOS box.
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Mock-up at GAMA Expo 2022
• Mythic Games expects to have Jochen Eisenhuth's Super Fantasy Brawl available at retail outlets by the end of April 2022. This will be followed by:
— Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game in Q3 2022
— 6: Siege – The Board Game in Q3 2022
— Enchanters: Darklands in Q3/Q4 2022
— Rise of the Necromancers in Q4 2022
Lots of movement in and out of the Mythic warehouse the second half of the year...
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