Devir Games Arrival

A great selection of games by Devir Games arrived in today! Included are Bitokῡ, La Viña, LUNA Capital, Mazescape Kids: Hypnos, Mille Fiori, Paris: La Cité de la Luminère, Red Cathedral, Red Cathedral: Contractors, and Savernake Forest. Here’s a look at each one:

● Bitokῡ – A fantasy deck-building, hand management, and set collection game. – – 1 to 4 players – – 120 minutes

Players will take the role of Bitokῡ spirits of the forest on their way to transcendence, with the goal of rising and becoming the next great spirit of the forest. To do so, they will have the help of the yōkai, the kodamas, and the various pilgrims who will accompany them along the way. The game is played over four rounds, each divided into four phases inspired by the seasons of the year. In the Spring phase, players prepare their Yōkai cards and gather the fruits of their earlier labors. In the Summer phase, players call upon their Yōkai and perform actions in the various areas on the board to earn Virtue Points. As players earn Virtue Points they will advance along the Spirit Path. In the Autumn phase, the new turn order is determined based on the players actions in the Summer phase. In the Winter phase, players recover their pieces and prepare the board for the next round. At the end of the Winter Phase in the fourth round, the game ends and Ascension occurs. During Ascension, players can earn additional points by completing certain goals. The player who advances the furthest along that path will be the winner. (publisher description)

● La Viña – A set collection card game about harvesting grapes for wineries. 2 to 5 players – – 30 to 45 minutes

Players advance their grape pickers along the board, collecting cards with the most interesting grapes. Some cards include tools with effects. To collect the cards you advance along a track that represents the rows of a vineyard. Each track has a series of different grape cards on either side, and you are allowed to choose the cards next to the space you are on, or next to the space you move to. Each turn you can choose a card and advance or advance and choose a card. At the end of the track, there are different wineries (each preferring a different kind of grape variety). Get the best reward for your harvest from the local wineries by matching your hand of grapes with their needs. If the players go quickly, they may get the best cards, but risk not having enough grapes. If they go too slow, the competition can beat them to the best vines! Selling your grapes to the wineries gets the players prestige points, and each player has a limited amount of deliveries. You can use your prestige points to upgrade your basket to improve your delivery. The end game triggers when a player makes their last grape delivery. The other players can finish moving through their track. Then, everyone counts their prestige points gained through their previous deliveries, and the player with the most points wins! (publisher description)

● Luna Capital – Players are going back in time to 1977 to see who can build the best city on the surface of the moon. The player with the most points at the end of 12 rounds will be awarded the prestige of having their city designated The Captial. Points are awarded for completing the threes concession (goal) cards randomly selected before the start of the game. Additional points are scored for sets of greenhouses, sales offices, two different types of residential buildings with different adjacency requirements, and number of meteorites. – – 1 to 4 players – – 45 minutes

● Mazescape Kids: Hipnos – A clever and fascinating maze game for one player. You will place a map on the table and look for the compass rose as the starting point of the maze. Using the wooden styles that comes with the game, you’ll trace the white pathways, maintaining contact with the maze at all times, and you’ll open and close sections of the map while looking for the exit point of the Impossible Triangle. Pass under bridges, climb staircases, and keep your head from spinning until the exit point takes you to the next scenario. There are seven different maze challenges to face with each one becoming increasingly more difficult but still aimed at ages 6+. (publisher description)

● Mille Fiori – A card drafting and pattern building game designed by Reiner Knizia. Millefiori (meaning Thousand Flowers) is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware.

Players take the role of glass manufacturers and traders who want to profit as much as they can from their role in the production of fine glass art. The game board is made up of five different areas each with a collection of diamond shaped spaces, each space contains a symbol. Each area is a different color and has its own placement rules and scoring system. The game is played over several rounds. Players will choose a card from their hand of five and pass the remainder of their hand to the next player. In turn order, each player will resolve their chosen card mostly by choosing to place one of their diamond-shaped tokens on an empty space in the area indicated on the card and then receiving points. The key to placement is in creating groupings that will yield the most points. Sometimes it’s groupings of your player color and sometimes it’s groupings of any player. Another turn option is instead to move your ship along the Sea track the number of spaces indicated on your card and receive points. The round continues in this manner of drafting and placing until players have two cards left, one will be played and the other discarded. Begin a new round of five cards to each player. Game ends when either the card deck runs out or a player has placed their last diamond on the board. There are lots of ways to score points. Each area has added bonuses that can be achieved – end game bonus points and receiving extra cards for immediate play. – -2 to 4 players – – 60 to 90 minutes

● Paris: La Cité de la Luminère – A 2-player tile laying and building placement abstract game. The theme is 1889 Paris “Exposition Universille” and the opportunity to wow the world with their city-wide implementation of the hot new idea of electric public lighting. The game is made up of square cobblestone tiles and polyomino building tiles. Each tile is divided into four spaces that has a combination of the two player colors, a mixed color, and streetlights. The game is played in two phases. In the first phase you and an opponent will construct a shared 4×4 grid of square cobblestone tiles and select building tiles from a common pool for your reserve. Your reserved building tiles will get placed during the second phase. The key in placing the cobblestone tiles is to create patterns of your color &/or mixed colors that will match the shape of your reserved buildings and that are adjacent to streetlights. Once the last cobblestone tile has been placed, phase one ends and no more building tiles can be obtained. Phase two consists of placing your building tiles and taking actions. When placing one of your building tiles it can only cover unoccupied cobblestone spaces of your color &/or mixed color – never on your opponent’s color nor a streetlight. Place one of your player color chimneys on the building. Alternatively, you can activate one of the available Postcards, each with a special action. A Postcard can only be activated once. These provide dancers, fountains, statues, and large streetlight tokens that can be placed in the city to gain additional victory points. The game ends when neither player can place any more of their buildings and all of their Postcard activation tokens have been used. Points are scored for buildings illuminated by a streetlight, your largest building group whether illuminated or not, and action tokens pertaining to your buildings. Points are deducted for all unplaced buildings left in your reserved. The player with the most points wins. – – 2-player – – 30 minutes

● The Red Cathedral – A strategic game in which the players are going to work to build a central cathedral. They will build different sections in different towers. The key is to build and decorate enough sections in a tower to max out your score for each tower. The game revolves around a market board that utilizes a rondel mechanism where necessary resources can be acquired, and additional actions can be taken. Market actions include gaining resources, moving their resources to cathedral sections, enhancing their ability to gather resources, or just scoring points. Ornamentation can be added to any completed tower sections for added prestige points. The game ends when a player has completed their sixth section. Only completed sections of each tower are scored. Player with the most points wins. – -1 to 4 players – – 80 minutes

● The Red Cathedral: Contractors – The first expansion to the base game, The Red Cathedral. This expansion adds 10 new guilds that can be combined with those from the basic game, 6 additional blueprint cards, and a new card for the solo mode. Many of these new guilds use the Contractors module, which among other things, adds a new board containing a map of Russia. Send out contractors throughout Russia to recruit the talent of the best specialists and artisans of the country to aid in the construction of the cathedral. (publisher description)

● Savernake Forest – A game about placing cards and building paths. Each turn, you’ll add a card to your 4×4 forest. Cards can have either animals or the forest paths where they’ll find food. You need to make a path for each animal, making sure they collect only the best food. Throughout the game, players will have the help of some animals, depending on the card they choose from the central market. The rooster will help you get up early, so you can be the first to choose a card in the next turn. The armadillo teaches you how to dig better shelters to store more food, so you can take a burrow token and add it to one of your animal cards to increase that animal’s storage capacity by 1. The goat teaches you to hydrate yourself better, offering a water drop token that can be associated with a food and increase its value by 1. Finally, the rabbit helps you attract new animals to your forest. (publisher description) – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 to 40 minutes

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New Game: Holotype

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.

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Ravensburger Jigsaw Puzzles: ESCAPE The Circle Trilogy

ESCAPE the Circle is a new trilogy of escape room style jigsaw puzzles set in Rome, London, and Paris. The concept of escape rooms in the Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle format now with a new twist, a turntable to use as your key to solve the 919-piece puzzle. Each puzzle contains full instructions, a rotating disk, and the solution in a sealed envelope.

You’ve volunteered to help the strange goblin you met in the Irish forest save his magical world from being destroyed! He gave you a charmed scope to help with your tasks. Your quest: build the puzzle and solve the mysteries.

Can you solve the clues at the Italian Villa in Rome and find the Symbol of Ambeth, the Moon Mother? A lavish library in London provides clues to the Symbol of Wilbeth, the Sun Mother. And, a secluded Cathedral in Paris provides clues to the Symbol of Borbeth, the Earth Mother.

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Final Girl: Series 2

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

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New Game: Kids Chronicles

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.

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New Game: My Shelfie

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.

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More Restock Games

More games have arrived. Back in stock are: Happy Little Dinosaurs, One Deck Galaxy, Space Base, Stellar, Munchkin Critical Role, Marvel Legendary DGB, Castle Panic, and Castle Panic: The Wizard’s Tower.

– Happy Little Dinosaurs – Card game where players are dinosaurs trying to avoid natural, predatory, and emotional disasters while dodging Meteors. Each player’s player board provides their Dinosaur character, Escape Route to track your points, and Disaster Area for any Disaster cards received. Each round, a Disaster card will be flipped over revealing a disaster. Each player will simultaneously play a point card from their hand in hopes of collecting points and avoiding the disaster. High point value gets to move along their Escape Route, while low point value receives the disaster card. Adjustments to your point value can be made from dinosaur traits, point card effects, and instant card effects. First player to 50 points or is the last dinosaur standing wins. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

– One Deck Galaxy – Cooperative sci-fi follow-up to One Deck Dungeon!  Build up a newly starfaring civilization from one homeworld to an epic Federation, all while confronting a challenging Adversary. Its multi-use cards represent both encounters/locations and the technologies, colonies, or research you can acquire from them. – – 1 to 2 players – – 30 to 60 minutes game play

– Space Base – Strategic engine-building dice game of fleet management and a race to 40 victory points. On each turn and roll of the dice not only the active player but all players will have a chance to repeat rewards. Your player board is your space base from which you add purchased ship cards in designated slots. The cards you buy and the order you buy them in have interesting implications on your engine beyond just the ability on the card you buy. – – 2 to 5 players – – 60 minutes

– Stellar – Strategic 2-player card game in which you are stargazers, calibrating  your telescopes to bring into view celestial objects of various types: planets, moons, asteroids, interstellar clouds, black holes, even satellites.  Each player uses cards to develop their own telescope and fill their own notebook. – – 2-player – – 30 minutes game play.

– Munchkin Critical Role – The powerhouse role-playing franchise Critical Role meets its match in the treasure-seeking hit role-playing card game of Munchkin. Play as your favorite
heroes from the Mighty Nein in the world of Wildemount. Battle against Obann, Lorenzo, and Isharnai as you race to gain Treasure and level up. The first player to reach Level 10 wins the game. – – 3 to 6 players – – 60+ minutes game time

– Marvel Legendary Deck Building Game – Recruit Marvel’s greatest heroes to defeat Marvel’s super-villains, Masterminds and their evil schemes. Each player starts with a deck of basic cards and then improves that deck throughout the game by recruiting Marvel’s greatest heroes in an effort to take down evil an evil mastermind like Magneto working on a dark scheme to crush all the players at once. Every time you play the game, a different evil mastermind will be pursuing a different dark scheme with different rules and it is the player’s job to thwart their evil efforts so good can prevail. Can be played cooperatively or competitively to determine the ultimate victor. – – 1 to 5 players – – 30 to60 minutes

– Castle Panic – A family fun, lite strategy cooperative game.  Players must work together to defend their castle located in the center of the board, from monsters that attack out of the forest at the edges of the board.   Players trade cards, hit and slay monsters that include orcs, goblins, and trolls, dodge boulders and even plague; do whatever it takes to keep the castle towers intact. – – 1 to 6 – – 60 minutes game time

– Castle Panic: The Wizards Tower – An expansion to the base game Castle Panic, a cooperative game. In this expansion, the friendly Wizard Thalgar is joining the battle. As long as his tower stands, you will all have access to a new deck of powerful magic spell cards. Use fire to attack the monsters, but beware, your Walls and Towers can be burned down as well.

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Games Back in Stock

Here are this week’s games that are now back in stock: Arkham Horror, Camel Up, Hats, Kingsburg, Mysterium Park, Quacks of Quedlinburg: Alchemist, Quedlinbury: Herb Witches, and Splendor.

– Arkham Horror – Cooperative game of mystery and terror. Players take on the role of investigators trying to rid the world of eldritch beings known as Ancient Ones. Based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, players will have to gather clues, defeat terrifying monsters, and find tools and allies if they are to stand any chance of defeating the creatures that dwell just beyond the veil of our reality.  – – 1 to 6 players – – 2 to 3 hours game time

– Camel Up – A family friendly crazy camel racing game. Place your bets!  And then they’re off!   Five camels in a quick race around the track. You need to be good at guessing early which will place first and second to maximize your wins.  Things get wild as the camels can end up stacking on top of each other or start off by running in the wrong direction.  It’s mayhem but fun is sure to ensue. – – 2 to 8 players – – 30 to 45 minutes game play.

– Hats – Card game where players will compete to collect the most outstanding hats in a spicy set collection game where players will dictate how each hat is scored. Who will get the last cookie? So don’t be late and get yourself to the Mad Hatter’s tea garden. – – 2 to 4 players – – 20 minutes game time

– Kingsburg – a city building, worker placement game that uses dice as your workers. The game takes place over five years, a total of 20 turns. In every year there are three production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an invading army. – – 2 to 5 players – – 90 to 120 minutes game time

– Mysterium Park – Cooperative game where players embody asymmetrical roles for ever-surprising game experiences. The ghost sends Visions to the Psychics through illustrated cards. The latter must interpret those cards in order to rule out the wrong suspects, and to conduct their investigation in different places so as to finally identify the murderer and the location where the crime occurred. Be aware that you only have 6 nights before the funfair breaks camp. – – 2 to 6 – – 28 minutes game time

– Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Alchemists – An expansion to the base game Quacks of Quedlinburg, a strategic push-your-luck, bag building game. This expansion adds a distilling essences element which can yield a tidy profit in return. Additionally, there are new fortune teller cards and ingredient books. – – 2 to 4 players – – 45 minutes game time

– Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Herb Witches – An expansion to the base game Quacks of Quedlinburg, a strategic push-your-luck, bag building game. This expansion adds a 5th player. Additionally, it adds a new ingredient to your pot, the locoweed, larger pumpkins and additional ingredient books. – – 2 to 5 players – – 45 minutes game time

– Splendor – A chip-collecting and set collection game with multiple layers of sets to collect,
an easy rule set, quick but deep tactical game play and great components. Adding cards to your collection provides discounts on cards purchased later and most provide victory points. The first player to fifteen points triggers game end in which players will finish the round and then add up their points. The player with the most points wins. – – 2 to 4 players – – 30 minutes

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New Game: Akropolis

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.

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New Game: Star Wars the Deck Building Game

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.  

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