New Game Arrivals: Jun 5th – 10th

These newly released games arrived this week:

Infiltration
Fantasy Flight

Just released from Fantasy Flight comes Infiltration a card game of corporate larceny in a dystopian future .  Infiltration has the variable game play we now expect from a Donald X. Vaccarino designed game (Dominion and Kingdom Builder).


In Infiltration you take on the role of thieves that infiltrate CyberSolutions, Inc., a highly secure corporate facility to steal digital files.  Your objective is to penetrate as deep as you can within the facility, moving from room to room collecting as much data as you can while outwitting your counterparts, and then to escape before the security mercs arrive.  Each room contains specific elements that you can interact with, such as heavy machinery, locked compartments that can hold valuable data, and employees working after hours. Some effects can delay your movements or even wound you.  All sorts of challenges await you.  You can be assured, while inside security alarms will be triggered and the security mercs will come so you must decide how long to stay in and when to retreat and escape.  The player who escapes CyberSolutions, Inc. with the most zettabytes of data wins the game.

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Sunrise City
Clever Mojo Games

Sunrise City is the next offering from Clever Mojo Games, the makers of Alien Frontiers.  This is a tile-laying game of strategic zoning, opportunistic bidding, and tactical construction.  The game components are nicely done.  The various tiles are thick and have colorful graphics depicting it’s type.


In Sunrise City, players select different character roles for each of the three rounds.  You will create zones for development and bid for the right to control the zones. You will then construct buildings that can rise up floor by floor above the street level.  Points are earned by clever zoning, careful bidding both smarter and higher than your opponents.  May the best builder win.
We have a demo copy of Sunrise City included in our Demo Library.

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At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Game Profile: Alhambra

Publisher: Queen Games, 2003
Players: 2 – 6
Time: 45 – 60 minutes
Mechanics: Card Drafting, Hand Management, Set Collection, Tile Placement
 
 
Alhambra is a set collection, tile laying, wall-building kind of game.  Players will work to build their own “Alhambra” by purchasing buildings at the market.  There will always be four buildings available for sale. Each of the four market spaces requires payment in a particular color of currency.  Buildings are assigned to a market by blind draw.
 
On a player’s turn they can buy a building or take one of the four faced up money cards.  Paying the exact cost for a building allows the player to take another turn where they may buy more buildings, replenish their hand with money, or take a building out of reserve and place it in their Alhambra.  Once a building is purchased it is either immediately placed in the player’s Alhambra or place in a players’ reserve for future placement.  Players must take care when placing their buildings to both leave openings for future building opportunities and to build one long wall.  Each building tile will have walls on zero to three sides.  Open sides must be played on open sides and walls on walled sides.  There are six different colors of buildings.
Players collect sets of colored buildings to score points during each of the three scoring phases. Points are awarded for having the most of a building color type.  Additionally at each scoring phase, players score points for the number of segments in their longest contiguous wall.
 
Awards: 2003 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), 2006 International Gamers Award



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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
 
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.
 
 
 

Game Profile: Caylus

Once upon a time…

Mechanics Worker Placement
Theme French Castle, Economic
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2005
Ages 12+
Time 120
Players 2 – 5
Description

It’s 1289.
 To strengthen the borders of the Kingdom of France, King Phillip has decided to
have a new castle built in the humble village of Caylus.
Around the building site a city is slowly rising up.  The players are
master builders.  By building the King’s castle and the city around it,
they earn prestige points and gain the King’s favor.  When the castle is
finished the player who has earned the most prestige points wins the game.

Caylus is a strategy game with each player
controlling a team of six workers.  The workers can be placed in either
the city or the castle.  Players have to develop the economic activity
along the road because huge resources are needed to build the castle.
 Development is expensive so players must watch their money carefully.
 Every time a worker goes to work the master builder must pay them.
 Workers can work in another player’s building which will gain this other
player prestige.  To win a player must take advantage of their own and
other players’ buildings without giving away too much advantage.

Along the way,
production buildings become obsolete unless a lawyer transforms them into
residential buildings, which then brings additional income to players.
 Play is also inspected by two royal agents, the bailiff and the provost.
 The provost can be moved, for a price, to determine which buildings can
be activated each turn.  The bailiff constantly moves forward pushing the
pace for building the castle.  The castle is built in three stages:
Dungeon, Walls, and Towers.  Master builders must move quickly and well in
building the castle to accumulate prestige.  The player who earns the most
prestige points will be the winner.

Caylus is a strong economic strategy game with
seven phases per turn and many ways to achieve points and victory!  

We have an open copy of Caylus available in
our Demo Games Library for you come in and try out.


AWARDS: 2006 Spiel des Jahres Special Award for
Complex Game, 2006 International Gamers Award





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in Historic Downtown Gresham
. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We
proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver
area.

Attention Fluxx Fans

Looney Labs brings the literature of H.P. Lovecraft to Fluxx.  Coming in August is none other than Cthulhu Fluxx.


Cthulhu Fluxx
Looney Labs

Here is a description from Looney Labs:

Follow the wild-eyed Poet, the obsessed Artist, and the expeditions of the Professor as they investigate Eldritch Secrets no mortal was meant to discover. Someone has stolen the Necronomicon from the library at Miskatonic University, and a Farm in the hills is undergoing a horrifying Metamorphosis.  Meanwhile, unspeakable abominations stir in Penguin-riddled Tombs beneath the ice.  Are you Inevitably Doomed to a lifetime of Nightmares in the Sanitarium, or are you, in fact, a Secret Cultist, worshiping the Minions of Darkness?

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At Off The Charts Games, we have a store full of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Expanding the Demo Game Library: High Noon Saloon and Cardcassonne

Adding to our Demo Game Library are these two quick to learn and easy to play games:

High Noon Saloon
Slugfest Games

High Noon Saloon is a fast-paced shootout.  Players are combatants in an all-out brawl fought in an old west saloon where the last one standin’ wins and there ain’t no prize for second!

This is the perfect game on a Friday night to take out the frustrations of the week on up to five of your friends. Fill your fist with your weapon of choice.  Make sure you have bullets.  If not, grab whatever is handy, a Hunk o’ Wood, a Chair, or even a Red Hot Fire Poker.  Call ’em out from behind the bar or from the piano; jump off the upstairs balcony, thump them good and then hunker down for the next round.






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Cardcassonne
Rio Grande Games

The first thing that you should know about Cardcassonne is that it does not play like Carcassonne.  The game play is dramatically different.


In Cardcassonne players create rows of cards in a central play area.  The cards are a makeup of person cards, animal cards, and building cards. On your turn you can either continue to build on the rows or claim a row.  However, you may only make one claim per round.  There is a definite press your luck element as to when to claim your row.  Rows can contain both face-up and face-down cards adding to the dilemma.


Sets of Person cards are scored  then discarded at the end each round.  Sets of Animal cards are scored at the end of each round and held for future additions that increase in point value.  Sets of Building cards are collected and scored at the end of the game.  The player with the most points wins.




Come in and try out High Noon Saloon and Cardcassonne. While you are here in the store
we’ll be happy to teach you the rules to the game and get you started.




At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of
family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice
games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from
Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We
proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area

News Flash: This Week’s Table Top Episode 5 Features Munchkin



It’s time for this week’s Table Top Episode 5 hosted by Star Trek’s, Wil Wheaton on Felicia Day’s YouTube Channel, Geek and Sundry.

Munchkin
Steve Jackson Games

A super star cast of players have fun playing the game Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games. Joining Wil Wheaton are: Steve Jackson (Game Designer Guru and Munchkin creator), Felicia Day (actress, producer, writer), and Sandeep Parikh (actor and creator of Legend of Neil).


This hilariously game comes in many themes, each a core set that can be played as a stand-alone game or combined with the other core sets.  Here are some of the other core sets that we carry that will take your Munchkin play to unbelievable levels:

  • Munchkin
  • Munchkin Deluxe (featured game in Wil’s Table Top Episode)
  • Munchkin Axe Cop
  • Munchkin Bites!
  • Munchkin Booty
  • Munchkin Cthulhu
  • Munchkin Fu
  • Munchkin Impossible
  • Star Munchkin
  • Super Munchkin
  • The Good, The Bad, & The Munchkin
  • Munchkin Zombie
Come and see us for the Munchkin games.  We also have a demo copy available for you to try.  While you’re in the store we’ll be happy to teach you the rules to the game.
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At Off The Charts Gameswe have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


News Flash: Munchkin Game Enthusiasts

From Steve Jackson Games and coming soon to all of you Munchkin enthusiasts:

Munchkin Conan
Steve Jackson Games

Munchkin Conan is a new 168-core set that draws from the entire Conan mythos, giving players Conan’s most  fabulous treasures, and pitting them against the barbarian’s most terrifying foes.  Munchkin Conan is entirely compatible with the Munchkin line of games.  Look for Munchkin Conan in July.

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Munchkin Zombies 3:
Hideous Hideouts

Steve Jackson Games

Fort Deadly! The Creepy Isolated Cabin of the Dead! Resurrection!  Introducing the popular double-sized “Dungeon” cards to the Munchkin Zombies mayhem, Hideous Hideouts features places where the zombies can find more yummy braaains!

Look for Munchkin Zombies 3: Hideous Hideouts, the second expansion to Munchkin Zombies, this August. 







Continue to  tune in for the latest in board games.

At Off The Charts Gameswe have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.