Merchants Cove First Impressions

“Merchants Cove is a highly asymmetrical eurogame where each player assumes the role of a different fantasy merchant with a unique shop. The merchants contend to sell their goods to the arriving adventurers at the cove’s piers—the most famous markets in the Five Realms. Each player uses their own set of role-specific components and gameplay mechanisms to produce their goods, increase their shop’s efficiency, and—most importantly—get rich!”

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Previously, On Kickstarter… #410

Today’s Previously features Azrah: War of Heralds, CastleScape, Dice of Dragons, Eva & Luna, Forsaken Forest, Goons: The Junkyard Expansion, The Isle of Cats: Don’t Forget the Kittens!, Joseph Balkoski’s St-Lô, Lockup: Breakout Expansion, Path of Light and Shadow: Solstice, Quests: Heroes of Sorcado, Robot Quest Arena, Starframe, Treasure Dive, Tussie Mussie: Expansion Collection, USS Laffey: The Ship That Would Not Die, and The Witcher: Old World.

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Maglev Metro First Impressions

“In Maglev Metro, utilize state-of-the-art magnetic levitation technology to build a metropolitan rail system, transporting workers and robots beneath the city. Replace aging Manhattan and Berlin subway systems with newer, faster, quieter technology. Enhance your rail system’s abilities so that your passengers arrive at their destinations first.

Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building game. Transparent tiles allow your route to overlap your opponents’ tracks, winding you along from station to station. Robots efficiently upgrade and adjust your abilities, leveraging unique goals to maximize points. By the end of the game, the game board has morphed into a modern subway map, with brightly-colored routes connecting stations all over the city.”

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Destinies First Impressions

“Destinies is a competitive, story-driven, game of adventure and exploration, mixing an app and a board game. The first in a series of games using a brand-new system called Destinies. This game is set in a dark medieval-fantasy universe. The Destinies system offers a fully story-driven, app-supported, RPG-like board game experience, without the need for a game master. Each scenario depicts a part of a vivid world, full of dark stories, epic NPCs and mysteries to solve. Each player takes the role of a hero on a quest to fulfill their destiny. Each destiny is a final goal of the character and has at least two, completely different paths to victory, composed of branching series of quests. Players compete with each other to push the world towards their own destiny.”

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