Got to catch up with some of my very old friends recently and whilst there got to play a couple of games that I've never tried before, thought it would be worth mentioning here.
First up was Eldritch Horror. Team based game, in our case with 6 players versus the game. The game has a lot of high quality physical components, i.e. cards, board etc and has clearly had a LOT of thought put into it. Risk style map, which you make you're way around to sort out the various monsters before you run out of time and the world gets eaten (or something like that). Fairly complex, lot of housekeeping, but as a result, has a number of options on how best to approach the game. Took roughly 5 hours to play, but being fair, part of that was a lack of understanding of the game by all but one of the players, and half of them being a bit "rule lawyerish" at times to understand how best to deal with the situations. Overall, I liked it. Can be bought for £25 from the US, and for that, it's a very good deal IMO. Just don't think you can play this is a casual quickie game, just not that sort of thing.
2nd up was King of Tokyo, and was basically the opposite of Eldritch. Very simple to learn and the games only took roughly 20-30 mins each. Doesn't have the depth of Eldritch, but probably a great game to play over a beer.
Would happily recommend either, but with ceveats on Eldritch. KOT I have no reservations on, everyone should have a copy and I ordered mine on getting home.
First up was Eldritch Horror. Team based game, in our case with 6 players versus the game. The game has a lot of high quality physical components, i.e. cards, board etc and has clearly had a LOT of thought put into it. Risk style map, which you make you're way around to sort out the various monsters before you run out of time and the world gets eaten (or something like that). Fairly complex, lot of housekeeping, but as a result, has a number of options on how best to approach the game. Took roughly 5 hours to play, but being fair, part of that was a lack of understanding of the game by all but one of the players, and half of them being a bit "rule lawyerish" at times to understand how best to deal with the situations. Overall, I liked it. Can be bought for £25 from the US, and for that, it's a very good deal IMO. Just don't think you can play this is a casual quickie game, just not that sort of thing.
2nd up was King of Tokyo, and was basically the opposite of Eldritch. Very simple to learn and the games only took roughly 20-30 mins each. Doesn't have the depth of Eldritch, but probably a great game to play over a beer.
Would happily recommend either, but with ceveats on Eldritch. KOT I have no reservations on, everyone should have a copy and I ordered mine on getting home.
