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Game Overview: Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension

Game Overview: Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension
Board Game: Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension
At Gen Con 2013, I spoke with designer Corey Young in the BGG booth and previewed his game Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension, which publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment had in limited supply at the show. (You can check out me and Young in all our glory on the BGG game page.) Those copies sold out, then people waited and waited and waited until the game finally escaped China's gravity well (you knew that was coming, right?) and reached U.S. shores in December 2013.

Now that I've played the game (four times on a review copy from Cryptozoic) it's time to explain the game as if Corey had never done so himself. Corey? Who is this Corey? Watch me instead!

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