Reviews & Previews of Indie and Kickstarted Games
A chain reaction is a “sequence of reactions where a reactive agent… causes additional reactions to take place.” Fairway picks up the recent Kickstarter delivery from Minion Games: Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction. The result is a series of games that beget even more games of Chain Reaction. And, at the end of this review, we giving away two copies of The Manhattan Project: Chain Reaction!
In episode 43, we get a little shady in a 2-4 player game called Dodgy Dealers. Players will attempt to be the first to collect four genuine paintings made by their contracted artist.
“Why did it have to be snakes?” And, even worse, why did it have to be a basket full of cobras! Today, Fairway takes a look at the new Kickstarter game, Cobras, by Suzanne Kabrt-Zinsli and Christopher Zinsli. See if he can charm this quick trick taking game or if he gets bit. It’s live on Kickstarter, right now!
Fairway definitely has something for games with rainbows. Red7 is no different, except that this rainbow really knows how to mess with your hand. See if Fairway manages to find the pot of gold at this end of this rainbow-themed game.
It’s the Italian renaissance. Fairway is a master of a great house of Florence and commissioning great works of art and architecture and hiring great artists of the time. You guessed it, it’s not reality. It’s time for Fairway’s review of Florenza: The Card Game.
In episode 42 we enter a world full of superheroes in the deckbuilding game called Emergents Genesis! Be the first to defeat your opponents and reduce their health to zero by growing your hand and gaining powerful cards.
In episode 41, we check out a 3-5 player competitive card game called Battle of the Bands.
In this review, Fairway plays with fire when he travels to Ambyria in search of the mysterious ember stones. Find out whether Ambyria: Shroud of the Shadow Demon is too hot to touch or just cool enough to play a bunch of times. The first expansion for Ambyria is hitting Kickstarter toward the end of this year.
In episode 40, we check out the latest game in Button Shy Games’ Wallet Series, Ahead in the Clouds.
Fairway always imagined he’d have been a great and honorable knight of the round table. He’d be noble and chivalrous, perhaps a little dashing. Well, after playing Crazier Eights – Camelot, it’s pretty clear that that’s not going to be the case.