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At Origins, Chevee Dodd was showing off three titles from Portal Games that will debut at Gen Con 2015: Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot (previewed here), Imperial Settlers: Atlanteans (which I'll talk about another time), and Tides of Time.
This latter game from Kristian Čurla is a marvel in minimalist design, creating tons of tension from only eighteen cards in a game that lasts no more than twenty minutes. In short, Tides of Time is a two-player-only card-drafting game that lasts three rounds, with each player trying to assemble in each round combinations of cards that work together to net them more points than the opponent.
You start with five cards, then draft, reveal and pass the remaining cards. After scoring at the end of each of the first two rounds, you remove one card in your tableau from the game and set another aside to be part of your permanent hand, then you draw two new cards and draft again. After three rounds, the player with the most points wins.
To see this game in action, or discover some of the cards included, watch this video:
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