Literary works seem to have "trilogy" plots, board games are no exception, and The plot of The Trilogy of Garphill Games seems to be particularly obvious.
Founded in 2009 by New Zealand designer Shem Phillips, the trilogy of "North Sea" and "West Country" is all written by this designer.
Now that the story of the "West Country" is nearing its end, it has begun a new journey towards the "South River" and even the East, let's see what new stories will happen to the new map!
The South River Traveler
Number of players: 1-4 people
Game features: layout planning, strategic competition
Wayfarers of the South Tigris is the first in the "South River" series, set around 820 AD, at the height of the Abbasid Empire of the Arab Empire, and the South River is the Tigris River.
As a brave explorer, cartographer, and astronomer, players set out from Baghdad to map the surrounding land, waterways, and sky.
Players must carefully manage their fleet of workers and equipment while regularly reporting on their findings in the Smart Palace (libraries and translation agencies). Can the player succeed in impressing the caliph? Or disoriented and succumb to the wilderness?
Players in the game mainly draw land, water and sky to get points, and by obtaining cards to form their own panoramic territory. Players can also earn points by upgrading caravans, getting inspiration from nobles, influencing science, trading, and exploring three guilds.
The game will be launched in March-April this year KS crowdfunding, when there will be more news, players interested in this series can pay attention to it.
"Da Yu Zhi Shui"
Number of players: 1 person
Game features: Legend of Dayu, single-player campaign
"Legacy of Yu" is a new themed board game that Garphill Games plans to launch this year, and it has just officially topped the BGG hot list.
The game is set in a mainland legend that during the reign of Emperor Yao, floods raged along the Yellow River and people were devastated. In order to end the disaster, Emperor Yao chose the official Gong (gǔn) to control the water. After nine years of trying, the carp proved that it was difficult to solve the flood by blocking alone.
After his death, his son Yu took over the burden and changed his mind to build canals that would lead the raging river to nearby fields and waterways.
This is a single-player non-linear, resettable campaign game. Players take the role of legendary hero Yu, who builds a canal to save cangsheng before the impending flood, while also defending his village from the invasion of neighboring barbarian tribes.
As the game progresses, new game elements are added, and there is a self-balancing mechanism during the campaign to ensure the player's gaming experience.
Victory or no, the campaign ends after seven games. Victory or defeat causes the player's path to branch out, and non-linear elements follow.
The game is expected to be launched in the middle of this year KS crowdfunding, there is not much information released so far, it is said that it will be an uncomplicated but very thought-provoking game, and the difficulty is roughly the same as that of "Paladins of the WestLand".
Galactic Rhythms: Order of Chaos
Number of players: 2-5 people
Game features: American zone control, wrong confrontation
Circadians: Chaos Order is the second in another series by the society, Galactic Rhythms, followed by Galactic Rhythms: The First Light.
Although the two games are identical in background, there is a huge change in gameplay - the previous game is a more typical German-style running game, while "Chaos Order" is an asymmetrical confrontation of the American zone control game.
Each faction in the game has its own unique leader and abilities, and can be upgraded, and the buildings that players can build and their respective winning conditions are also different. But everyone has the main goal of winning by controlling all the relics on the map.
The game will be played for up to 6 rounds, during which the player will study, build buildings, harvest resources, recruit and move units, and control the area through battle, snatch the relics, and the winner will be king.
The peculiarity is that each round has a pricing phase, in which all players take turns pricing the next five actions by placing a pricing section, which will allow the player to become the starting player of the action and receive immediate benefits, while other players will need to pay the corresponding resources when performing the priced action. This gives it some more fun interactions beyond the battle.
Garphill Games has rarely been involved in American zone games before, which is very worth looking forward to.
Viscount of the West: Guardian of the Keys & Viscount of the West: Golden Gate
These are two latest expansions in the Viscount of the West series.
In the Key Keeper expansion, the situation in the court is further strained. Some choose to plot secretly and form alliances with like-minded officials; others are dedicated to finding treasures and secrets hidden deep in the castle.
The expansion mainly adds 3 public buildings with special abilities for players to compete for, adds a double-decker player version with slots, and introduces more heroes, townspeople, and manuscripts, and each player can also replace the starting residents with three, bringing more changes to the game.
In the Golden Gate expansion, people from all over the world come to witness the glory of the great city.
New King's Command and Alien cards, new building bonus cards, manuscript territory, and a host of new citizen, hero, and manuscript sections have been introduced.
Architects of the West: Building Miracles
This is an extension of The Architect of the West, where architects from all over the world go to the kingdom to build five glorious monuments. The extension introduces a new satellite territory outside the motherboard diagram to place new contribution and consequence cards and record player prestige.
Players compete to build five wonders and try to gain support from princesses and black market merchants who move on the motherboard diagram. The game also includes a new single-player mode with six unique opponents to challenge.
brief summary
The games that Garphill Games will launch this year are mainly to continue and refine the style of their various "trilogy" series of works, including the new game with such an oriental background as "Da Yu Zhi Shui", which still retains the unique flavor of his family in terms of art style and art design.
However, just as the name of the "trilogy" is, the different works of the same series are independent in terms of gameplay and flavor, and the expansion is a new feeling, which not only satisfies the fans of the series, but also allows new players to find endless treasures after liking a certain work.