New Game Round-up: Dice in the West, Predators in the Aliens, Investments in Wonga & Playing in the World

Diceperados is a western-themed dice game based on a deduction mechanism.

Players are notorious and sneaky villains who are watching for opportunities to steal gold or money. At the beginning of the round, choose your target building secretly, making it your identity for the round. You will get clues of an opponent's identity over multiple turns and you can use these clues to put your opponent out of the battle — or your rival will kick you out. If you survive after four turns, you have a chance to rob the bank! Welcome to a thrilling western world full of shootouts!

Wongamania is a fast-paced modern economics card game that captures the exhilarating experience of the financial markets, bringing players through a typical economic cycle consisting of four stages: Recovery, Growth, Stagnation, and Recession. In order to win the game, players have to accumulate a certain amount of money, termed "Wonga". Players draw a basic income each turn and must rely on investments to generate extra income, by either buying low or selling high, or waiting for interest, dividends and rentals generated by the assets such as stocks, properties and bonds.

Each economic quadrant has a unique characteristic which reflects the real world. For example, it's often cheaper to buy stocks and properties during the recession or recovery stage, while the best time to sell them is during the stagnant stage. During the recession stage, players who still own stocks and properties will lose money if they are still holding to them as the cycle changes.

In the real world, economic cycles can often be unpredictable and volatile. To simulate that, Wongamania includes global cards that move the economic cycle in a different direction, just when you least expect it to happen! The global cards consist of real-life political and economic events, which help players understand more about the implications of the various geopolitical events and government policies.

To add to the spice, Wongamania has a series of incident cards that reflect some of the personal triumphs and woes that players face in their everyday lives, events such as accidents, illness, vacation, further education, and a leaky roof, which players can use to either move themselves ahead or slow down opponents through a series of deviously plotted events and accidents.

The game ends after a player accumulates three trust funds, which each cost 8 Wonga.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Become a secret agent of joy, spreading art and intrigue to an unsuspecting public. Inside each box is an interactive scavenger hunt that will inspire creativity and reward audacity. Take a selfie with a stranger, create a collaborative doodle, become a flash mob of one. Complete each objective, then pass the card along to an unwitting accomplice, who now becomes part of the game! The fun is ever-expanding, but it all starts with you — play it forward!