Familiar Tales is the new story telling game from designer Jerry Hawthorne who also did Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Mice & Mystics. This one is a co-operative fantasy game with a deck-building mechanic. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 to 120 minutes

In Familiar Tales, players take on the roles of wizard familiars trying to save and raise the heir to the throne of Principalia.  Players will explore the nooks and crannies of an enchanted world. They will fight off enemies, collect resources to craft powerful items, weapons, and armor, keep the princess safe and raise her to reclaim her throne. 

An innovative card play system allows players to level up their familiars by building and customizing their skill decks. Players will use their skill cards to perform all manner of exciting actions throughout their campaign.

Be prepared to weave a fascinating story using a downloadable app, a location book and a campaign journal.  Let the stories begin.  

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Three Sisters is a roll and write game from the designers of Fleet the Dice Game, Ben Pinchback & Matt Riddle. The game is named for three of the basic crops from early America: corn, beans & pumpkins.  The object of the game is to score the most points by planting and harvesting crops including the three the game is named for plus, perennials and fruit.  In addition, there is a shed full of gardening tools that can be acquired to add to the point total. 

Each round a set of dice will be rolled and placed on a rondel in order from lowest to highest.  Each player gets to select a die and do the action of the number on the die and the action of the rondel from where the die was selected.  Then all players get to do the action of the remaining die on the rondel with the lowest number.  The different areas of a player’s scoresheet are interconnected so as they progress they earn bonuses, free actions, and more.

Three Sisters plays over 8 rounds with lots of decisions and many ways to go about gaining the most points.  The key will be to work the various combinations more effectively than the other gardeners.  – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

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Welcome to the Moon is the 3rd in the Welcome To… trilogy game series from Blue Cocker Games. This one is an evolving and narrative flip and write game containing 8 different adventures that form a complete story with an increasing difficulty level. There are two modes of play: Evolving Campaign and Adventure. – – 1 to 6 players – – 25 to 30 minutes game time

Evolving Campaign Mode: players will work through the campaign book playing the adventures in order. At the end of each Adventure players will save their progress and receive stars depending on their result. The player with the most stars at the end of the campaign will be the winner.

Adventure Mode: each of the 8 Adventures are played independently. Before selecting an adventure, players must first read the standard rules. Next select an Adventure and read its specific rules. The player with the most points at the end of the Adventure is the winner.

Influencing the course of events through the Campaign cards creates a different story each time. Additionally, none of the components are destroyed or modified making Welcome to the Moon replayable.

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Now or Never is the third in the storybook game series by Red Raven Games with Above and Below and Near and Far being the first and the second in the series.  Now or Never features great game components, plenty of decisions, and two different modes of play: a Standard mode and a Story mode. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 minutes per player game time.

In Now or Never players will use one of the four asymmetrical hero characters to explore a fantasy map and compete to build up their own section of the village.  To do this, players will need to build houses, defeat monsters to gain villagers to place in the houses they built which then earns resources, search for valuable treasures, and take special actions provided by a location site. Taking on greater challenges can yield more abilities and coins which can be used to obtain useful gear. Interact with the other players by hiring their specialists to perform special actions. The player who builds the best section of the village and fights some monsters the best will score the most points and win.

The game has a unique building grid mechanic. During set-up, each player will shuffle their set of buildings and place them face-up in a 4×5 grid of unbuilt buildings. When they construct their first building they can choose from any building along the edge of the grid. On future building actions, a building can only be taken from an adjacent empty space in the building grid.

Story mode is a 6-chapter campaign. Each character will have a storybook with their own set of stories, unique to the locations they explore and options to choose from. A die roll will determine the outcome of the choice they made.  Two of the chapters will take them to underground caverns on the opposite side of the board where there are alternate actions, enemies, and more. The scoring will have an added feature in Story mode where fame points will be awarded at game end.  Story mode will take longer to play.

In conclusion, Now or Never appears to take some of the best elements from the other two games in the series to come up with a big and bold gaming experience.

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New from Sinister Fish Games is Streets, an urban tile-laying game where players collectively build a city and invest in buildings to try and earn the most money. – – 1 to 5 players – – 30 to 60 minutes.

publisher description:

Players are investors creating attractive new streets in the growing city, investing in new businesses and homes. Some streets turn into hotspots for hipsters, others become dominated by tourists, or families with children. Others still will become designated shopping areas. Where will your Microbrewery profit the most? What is the best location for a Toy Store? What kind of environments are the other investors creating, and can you exploit their work for your own gain?

publisher description:

Gameplay is straightforward; players take turns to place one building tile from a hand of three, putting an ownership sign in their player color on each building they place. People (custom wooden meeples) are put on buildings according to the color & number of icons at the bottom. Each person increases the value of the building it occupies.

Rows of up to five buildings form streets. When a street becomes enclosed at each end, every building on it scores according to the valuation in its top right corner. After scoring, any people in the street try to move to buildings on streets that haven’t been enclosed. For instance, green people (parents) will try to move to green parent-friendly buildings. In the same way, yellow people (hipsters) will try to go to yellow hipster hotspots. Crowds of meeples grow as the game goes on, and so the stakes get higher and higher. Careful planning is important because the player who encloses a street gets to decide where those people move next.

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