Oct
14
It’s been a long time since the last entry -I apologize. I’ve played games but most of the gaming has happened online so there’s really not that much to report on.
Thus it was fun to have some friends over and play games; especially because I just received fall lineup for Tuonela Productions to review. They have three new card games which all look promising after quick glance on the rules.
We began the night with Politix while one of my friends is active in the field and we always get laughs out of it. Politix is a decent game; it’s quick to play, one gets table talk out of it and there’s even some depth and tactics in it. Obviously it’s nothing for the die hards of gamers games but I rather like it and I’m willing to play it at least with friends who I know will like the game and the theme.
Image from BGG by Touko Tahkokallio
I ended up the the left wing of the political map with Päivi and we squeezed I quite easy win over the right wing. Rightist forgot to secure voters from farmers fraction and lost the election handsomely.
Image from BGG by Daniel Danzer
The second game of the night was Tuonela’s and Ville Hankipohja’s Soul Hunters. Soul Hunters is a card game where players play events and soul hunters on the table to gather negative or positive influence. Influence is used to capture free souls by the players and the one who has captured the most when the game ends wins the game.
There’s a lot of different cards in the games and there’s definitely several paths to play the game and in my opinion that makes Soul Hunters interesting. In our game more choices unfortunately meant also more playing time and more down time for the players. Reading all the cards and trying to figure out how and when to use them is hard especially is any of the players is declined to AP.
Image from BGG by Daniel Danzer
The best part of the game is graphics which I really enjoyed. There’s different groups of soul hunters in the play and every group is easily recognizable because of the color scheme in the cards and also because of the pictures. It’s also extremely fun to table God to gather souls for you when the other players have devils and cultists and even aliens on the table.
Soul Hunters appears to be interesting game and I’m keen on testing it more. If playing time can be reduced to the 60 minutes stated in the box, Soul Hunters is a winner but if 4 player game takes more than 2 hours then there’s not enough content in the game.
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