Quined Games
While most German board players don't care so much about the art of a game, who doesn't prefer games with a more eye-catching style?
Quined Games, a publisher, has launched the Master Print series of game cover art is very eye-catching, and the box waist is like a book board game, which has impressed many German-style collection enthusiasts. In 2022, their list for this series is going to be added again!
1. "Carnegie"
"Carnegie" is the latest work in the Master Print series, and the famous painter Yan Otto is responsible for its art designer. In the game, players will return to the time of Carnegie, the king of steel, as an entrepreneur, investing in real estate, recruiting employees to produce goods, developing the transportation industry, establishing transportation networks in various regions, and finally building their own business empire.
Carnegie is an engine-building game with area control elements. Each player has a company map with several departments on it, and the player can activate its effect by dispatching their own staff to the department's workstations, and the player's company will gradually expand over the course of the game.
The action selection in the game is more interesting, and each round will have an active player who can decide the action of the current round, and all other players can only perform this action. The four actions in the game correspond to the four departments in the company, and when the player performs an action, the corresponding department is activated.
The game under the dark tide brought about by this action selection mechanism is also a major playing point of the game. The divisional differentiation similar to that of real-world companies provides a sufficient sense of substitution, and it is a work worth looking forward to in 2022.
The Chinese edition of Carnegie was pre-sold on new collection last year, and the deluxe edition will be officially shipped in February this year. Players who missed it can look forward to the retail version.
2. Animal World: Preventing Extinction
The Master Print series has a fixed box size, which is both a selling point and a limit to the order of magnitude of the series, so they launched another series, the Quined Master Print Mini.
The board game boxes in this series are small clamshell boxes with magnetic buckles, making them perfect for carrying around. The game duration is controlled at 10-30 minutes, which can be used as a fill game during parties. Animalia: Preventing Extinction is the newest in the series.
In the game, the player is a research team working for the Wildlife Conservation Institute, and what they have to do is to take on the mission of researching and protecting endangered fauna and preventing the extinction of various species. Players will be tasked around specific animals, collecting data on relevant animals and understanding the behavior, habitat, and other important characteristics of the animals studied.
As a small volume game, all the player has to do is play cards. This is a cooperative dunging game, each round consists of 8 rounds, each round is called a mound. The first card played at each pier determines the color of the pier. If possible, other players must follow suit and play cards of the same color. Whoever plays the card with the highest number of points in the color of the pier wins the pier.
At the end of the eight rounds, each player with a quest card must complete the quest by collecting (i.e., eating mounds) all the animal cards listed on their quest cards. If one of the missions is not successfully completed, lose the game immediately. Overall it's quite worth a try.
3. "Greek Legends"
Legends of Hellas is also the aforementioned Quined Master Print Mini series, but it's a remake of 2018's ESCAPE NOW!.
In the game, players play as heroes in an attempt to defeat mythical monsters. Players cannot see each other's cards and are not allowed to exchange information about their respective hands.
Players need to defeat 7 monsters before the cards run out. Each turn, players can choose to fight, move, recover, support, and ask the gods, each of which has a different effect. Every action consumes a card, and how to plan resources wisely will be the key to winning.
The game contains a total of 12 missions, each corresponding to a different scenario, providing additional reopenability for the game, and players interested in such games may wish to give it a try.
YIKES!
HUCH！ Is a German trade-based board game company, they will launch a large number of board games from all over the world every year, so the game theme is diverse, so often see some interesting games, what new and interesting games they will bring in 2022?
1. The East India Company
In 1600, a group of English merchants obtained a license from Queen Elizabeth I to trade in the East Indies for 21 years. The East India Company thus became a well-known trade monopoly in the history of the world.
The East India Companies is set in the 18th-19th centuries, where players manage a large shipping company and trade with various trading posts in India.
Players must manage their own ships and invest in buying shares of their own or other player companies. There is a need to pay close attention to fluctuating market prices and balance the money between investing in stocks and buying commodities, deciding whether to use a low-tonnage clipper or a high-tonnage slow ship.
The game does not have much information to disclose at present, it should be an economic German game, if the thematic aspects are also handled in place, it will be a game that can be tried.
2. "Full Staff"
The background of Overbooking is simply this:
High emotional intelligence: The king's daughter held a grand royal banquet, invited thousands of guests from all over the country, these people did not have a room, and quickly found a way to find a room to live in and avoid sleeping on the street.
Low emotional intelligence: The chair-grabbing game has finally launched a board game version of "grab the room".
In the game, each player tries to place their guests in a handful of hotels with empty rooms and earn points from them. Each hotel can only accommodate a certain number of guests, and the player must guess the number of guests the opponent will participate in the room scramble, as well as possible conspiracies.
The game does not disclose much information, it should be a light game with interesting background settings.
3. "Gondola"
Gondolieri is a game in which players play as gondoliers who send various tourists to tourist attractions on the waterways of Venice (Didi Driver Simulator?). ）。
In the game, the player advances the gondola ship through the dice, and after the first roll of the dice, they will choose a gondola boat to carry passengers. Each boatman has his own destination, they want to get as close to their destination as possible, players can roll more dice, as long as the right color roll, the boatman can move on. Players need to carefully arrange passengers to earn the most benefits.
It seems to be a family-oriented party mini-game.
4. "The Ether"
In Aetherya, players need to develop wilderness and ever-changing kingdoms. The kingdom has a full range of classic fantasy elements, and humans, elves, dwarves, goblins and dragons all live here, and the relationship is not very harmonious. Players need to shape the land according to their own ideas, so that all the inhabitants of the kingdom can live in harmony.
Each player starts with a 4x4 deck to represent their kingdom, and during their turn they can explore their kingdom (flip a card), draw a card to replace the plots in the kingdom, and finally score points through them.
Not surprisingly, it's a fast-paced jigsaw puzzle.
5. "Circle"
Circle is a game with a special driving mechanism, the player rolls the ball in a circular track outside the territory, and when the ball falls in the right position, the player will have a lot of progress.
The game's layout is two sides of the game facing different games: on one side, players will go on adventures in the Wild West, fight bandits, and open their own ranches. On the other side, players will visit the shooting range and try to hit various targets.
The game is expected to be released by the end of 2022, and the specific content is subject to change.
6. "Goblin Roller Coaster"
Goblin Coaster is about goblins who build a roller coaster to make their dungeons more attractive. After a misstep start, it was discovered that the roller coasters were not built, and before they reached the end of the track and crashed, they could complete the construction of the roller coasters?
It's a fast-paced, co-op bricklaying game where players will play as goblins and finish building the roller coaster track as quickly as possible, and players must first clear the textures with track parts – but the next type of texture is predetermined and requires the quick creation of matching track parts. It's a fun race against time, and an exciting dungeon roller coaster is about to be completed!
brief summary
That's Quined Games and HUCH! These two board game publishers with very different styles currently have new travel plans for 2022, although there is no shortage of "hard goods" such as "Carnegie" and "East India Company", but in general, there are more small-scale, fun and fun, family gathering games, and look forward to having games that perform well!