New Game Round-up: Drafting Over Decades, Redoing Darien, and Riding Giant Frogs

Experience two centuries of developments and fights in a fantastic realm in Paper Tales. Remodel your patchwork assembly of characters, units, and buildings in each period based on your developments and the aging of your heroes. Write the legend in the books of the legitimate ruler who brought unity among rival kingdoms.

In more detail, Paper Tales is a simultaneous drafting card game for 2-5 players. Each turn, players draft five units that they then recruit into their kingdom — assuming that they can pay. These choices determine your ability to shine during war, generate income, construct powerful buildings, and earn legend points. You have only four spots available for hiring each of the four rounds of the game, and your units grow older during play until time blows them away...

Deep in the forests of the North lives an enchanting elf tribe called the Frogriders. Each spring, they hold a tournament, where their four major squads perform a mock battle. Whoever best manages to capture valuable units and make clever use of their special abilities will take the victory!

Frogriders is a tactical family game in which you collect the custom-molded plastic figures by making them leap over one another. Each of the collected Frogriders, however, enables you to keep it for scoring or return it to the tribe's village in order to use its special ability. Due to the many different privilege cards and several scoring cards (of which only a few are used each game), there are a lot of tactical nuances to discover, and many strategies to employ to win at Frogriders!

1698: The hopes of a nation set sail for the Isthmus of Panama. The Gulf of Darien promised much for the Kingdom of Scotland: independence from England and a chance to stand as equals with the great trading countries of Europe. However, the fate of this New Caledonia would be beset by famine, pestilence, war and death. In under 18 months, this brave attempt to carve out a new frontier would end in disaster. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse turned their eyes to Darien and found it an affront to the order of nature. Mortal sinews and stamina would not prove sufficient to overcome the visitation of inhuman wrath and by early 1700 the only remnants of this outpost of humanity were overgrown graves and derelict huts. The Horsemen had triumphed.

Can you do better against infernal forces ? Can you build a thriving community that defies the Four Horsemen?

In this game, you will take the role of the head of one of the​ families who made that arduous journey to Darien. You will attempt to survive all that the Four Horsemen can send against you. The game can be played cooperatively to stave off the Apocalypse that laid waste to Darien in reality or competitively to succeed against the Horsemen and your fellow adventurers — you choose. It will be an important choice as the fate of two thousand settlers rests in your hands!