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New Game Round-up: Visitors for Viticulture, Deadpool for Dirty Jokes, and Harry Potter for Codenames and Munchkin

New Game Round-up: Visitors for Viticulture, Deadpool for Dirty Jokes, and Harry Potter for Codenames and Munchkin
Board Game: Viticulture: Visit from the Rhine Valley
• On June 1, 2018, Stonemaier Games invites you to invite new visitors to Viticulture with the Visit from the Rhine Valley expansion, co-designed by Tido Lorenz and Jamey Stegmaier. This set of eighty visitor cards is used in place of the ones in the base game and the Tuscany expansion, with use of the visitors focusing less on victory points and more on the wine business itself.

• USAopoly showed off a few upcoming releases at the 2018 GAMA Trade Show that they had teased at the 2018 NY Toy Fair, so now I can say a few words about them. The company already had a huge success with Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle in 2016 and Codenames: Disney Family Edition and Codenames: Marvel in 2017, so you will probably not be shocked to learn that in 2018 USAopoly will combine the chocolate with the peanut butter to release Codenames: Harry Potter. This title follows the format of their previous two Codenames releases, with the "agent" cards having a word or phrase on one side and an image on the other. Codenames: Harry Potter features the gameplay from Codenames Duet, with players working together to find (I suppose) members of the Order of the Phoenix before they run out of time or summon Lord Voldemort or another dark wizard.

Along the same lines, in 2018 USAopoly will release Munchkin: Harry Potter, with the gameplay being of the familiar Munchkin variety of kicking down doors and attempting to level up. This edition of Munchkin will be the first to feature photos instead of illustrations, and you can thank Warner Brothers for that since the look of most things HP is under their control.

One upcoming USAopoly title that I can show off is Deadpool vs The World, a party game for three or more players from Casey Sershon that's due out in May 2018. This game is off the "fill in the blank to please the judge" variety, with the subject matter of each round being some ridiculous situation in which Deadpool finds himself. Perhaps you can anticipate all the jokes that await you when Deadpool 2 hits the theaters on May 18, 2018...

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