New from Brexwerx Games is Holotype, a light to mid-weight science-themed worker placement game. At a recent trade show, we were able to meet with co-designer Brett Harrison, as well as play the game. We enjoyed meeting Brett and playing his new game.

In Holotype, each player is a paleontologist collecting and researching fossils that will lead to the publication of a Holotype. A Holotype is a specimen upon which the description of a new species is based. The winner in the game is the player who gathers the most points from publishing Holotypes, contributing to global objectives, and achieving their personal objective. – – 2 to 5 players – – 60 to 120 minutes

Each player begins the game with a player board and 3 workers each of a different height: field assistant – small, grad student -medium, and paleontologist -tall. Only the field assistant (small) and the paleontologist (tall) are active in the beginning. The grad student (medium) will become active later when a player publishes their third Holotype. Additionally, each player is dealt three dinosaur specimen cards and two personal objective cards – one of which they will keep for scoring at game end, and six milestone tiles. In the central play area will be the Location board, the Field Advancement Tracker board, fossil dice, a supply of fossil and resource cubes, and decks of specimen, trace fossil, and field expedition cards.

On their turn, a player will place a worker on one of the unoccupied spaces at one of the five sites on the Location board and take its action. The size of the worker placed there will determine the strength of the action. The Location sites include Field Expedition, Specimen Lab, University Library, Museum Collections, and Publishing Journal. The Field Expedition site provides necessary fossil cubes by rolling fossil dice. The type and number of fossil dice that are rolled is determined by a chosen Field Expedition card. At the Specimen Lab, players gather Specimen cards to add to their other species of dinosaurs in their hand. The University Library site provides necessary Research cubes. The Museum Collections site lets players trade their fossil and research cubes with the Museum’s supply. The Publishing Journal site is where a player with their grad student or paleontologist will publish a Holotype by selecting a Specimen card from their hand and paying its required cost in fossil and research cubes. Another option at this site is to complete one of the public scoring objectives.

When all the spaces at a desired location site are occupied, a player may bump another player out with a worker that is equal to or taller in size. The ousted worker is returned to the opponent for future use. You may even oust your own worker in order to repeat that site’s action and to reuse your ousted worker at another site. If you have no workers to place you must spend a turn to retrieve them and gain a research cube for doing so.

Each time a Holotype is published, a marker is moved up on the Field Advancement Track. When the marker reaches certain key points, all players will choose one of their Milestone tiles to activate. These tiles provide added benefits during the game. When the marker reaches the end of the Field Advancement Track the game is over and scores are calculated.

Holotype includes double-sided Location and Field Advancement boards. The side played will be determined by the number of players making for an easy setup. The cards provide informative facts about dinosaurs and formations. The components and artwork are well done.

Holotype works as a way to play a worker placement game without all the tension of most worker placement games. Each turn gives you something positive to do.

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Once again, step into the shoes of the girl of your choice and move, search, and fight your way to victory by eliminating the killer and surviving the night with Final Girl: Series 2 the next in the Final Girl Feature Films for the core game Final Girl. The five feature films in Series 2 are: Into the Void, Panic at Station 2891, A Knock at the Door, Once Upon a Time, and Madness in the Dark. Each Feature Film Box features a unique Killer and an iconic location.

Final Girl is a 1-player only game that puts the player in the shoes of a female protagonist who must kill the slasher if she wants to survive. Final Girl Feature Film Series 1 and Series 2 both require the core game, Final Girl. – – 1 player only – – 20 to 60 minutes

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Adding to our selection of kids games is Kids Chronicles: Quest for the Moon Stones, a cooperative game of fairytale adventure and mystery investigation aimed at kids 7 and older. Kids Chronicles combines a board game and a free digital app. – – 1 to 4 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game time per story.

Play the role of Magician’s Apprentices and solve the mysteries of two kingdoms over the course of 5 epic stories. Accompanied by the faithful familiar, Nills The Moon Cat, you’ll embark on a quest to find four magical Moon Stones. You’ll need to work together to solve numerous mysteries and help inhabitants of both Kingdoms to overcome their problems. Each component such as locations, characters, and items, comes with a unique QR code that you’ll scan to access it’s information. When players arrive at a location they will experience vibrant 3D scenes featuring characters from the tale.

The game contains a double-sided game board that depicts the Kingdom of Summer on one side and the Winter Empire on the flip side. Additionally it has colorful artwork and good sound effects on the app and a tutorial if you do not want to read the rulebook.

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

My Shelfie is a new game that just arrived in and one that we got a chance to play at a recent game trade show we attended. This is a family game with simple rules, strategic choices, and a nice 3D touch. Players are competing to completely fill their empty bookshelf in a manner that scores the most points. There are personal goals and common goals to gain points from. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. – – 2 to 4 players – – 25 minutes game time

Each player will have a 3-D empty bookshelf that they will need to fill in with item tiles that depict a variety of images that include books, plants, board games, portraits, cats, etc. On their turn, players will select from one to three tiles from the shared living room game board according to the selection requirements. Then they must drop all chosen tiles into the top of one and only one of their bookshelf columns. They can choose which order to drop in the tiles but once they have been dropped in there is no rearranging them. The goal is to get tiles in positions that match your private personal goal and that match the common goals. Throughout the game the central living room board will get replenished with tiles. Game proceeds in this manner until a player has completely filled all of their slots. You’ll finish the round and then tally your points. The player with the most points wins.

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

Akropolis is a new easy-to-learn strategic game about building a city, your city, by placing and stacking tiles to create the best scoring acropolis. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 30 minutes game play

Welcome to Akropolis where players build their own city with tiles in a quest to score the most points.  The game is played over 12 rounds with each player starting with a tile made up of four hexes. The central play area comprises of a row of six available city tiles and stacks of the remaining city tiles. On their turn, a player will take one of the available six city tiles and place it in their city. The city tiles are made up of three hexes each with a random combination of quarries, plazas, and districts. Plazas are in one of five colors that correspond to the district buildings and have from one to three stars that are multipliers for points at game end. The districts have 5 different types of buildings/colors: houses, markets, barracks, temples and gardens, each with a different method to score.  In order for a district building to score points it must have a plaza of its matching color.  Quarries have a white background and do not score, but yield stones whenever a player builds over them. Stones are necessary to use in drafting the right tiles. If a player wants a tile further down the line they will have to pay a stone for each tile they pass over. 

Building upwards will be essential for increasing your scoring potential.  Not only does a player gain stones but in addition, buildings on the 2nd layer count as 2 of that type of building.  Buildings on the 3rd layer counts as 3 of that type of building. At the end of the twelfth round points are tallied and the player with the most points is the winner.

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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

It’s time for a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars the Deck Building Game.  – – 2-player – – 30 minutes game play

Players will square off in a battle for supremacy.  Each side has its own unique powers.  The object of the game is to destroy 3 of your opponent’s Bases.  Each player starts the game with 10 basic cards.  Deal a hand of 5 for your turn.  There will be 5 cards face up in the middle of the table.  Some will be cards that can be bought and added to your discard pile. Some are cards that your opponent will want to add to their discard pile.  If you have enough attack power, you can destroy those cards before you can destroy them before they purchase them.  In addition, there will be neutral cards you can buy, including capital ships that can be used to shield your bases from attacks.  Those will need to be destroyed before your opponent can come after your bases.  When one of your bases is destroyed you get to go through your deck of bases and choose the one you would like to play next.  Each has different hit points needed to destroy it and different abilities that will come to you as soon as you choose to play it. This game is going to bring a lot of replay value in a relatively small box. It also features great art and a great theme.  May the force be with your faction.  

• Located 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.  Additionally, for the jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, White Mountain, Dowdle, Pomegranate, and New York Puzzle Company.

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