Gamer’s Gonna Game

In November of 2012, Cryptozoic released "DC Deck Building Game." "I like that game because I love the deck building mechanics," states Ms. Cleveland. Everyone starts out with the same deck and the same resources but then on their turn they can use their cards to buy new cards essentially building their decks.  There is an overall goal of the players all defeating the super villains but each card...

On July 4, 2017, USAOPOLY released "Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle: Cooperative Deck Building Game." This is another deck building game however instead of the players competing against each other, players are competing against the game itself. In this game, players still get to buy cards using their cards to build a deck but they also need to focus on healing their teammates (the other players) and defeating...

On March 5, 1935, Parker Brothers released "Monopoly." It is indeed a strategy based game. It is very easy to spend all of the player's money at the beginning and then not have the money needed in order to pay rent when landing on other people's properties. Monopoly also teaches players a little bit about how loans work because if they have to mortgage their property, they have to pay more than what...

On October 23, 2020, Libellud released "Mysterium." In this game there are players and one ghost. Whoever chooses to play the ghost has to try to get the players, psychics, to solve their murder without speaking at all. The ghost must give the players each vision cards, cards with pictures, to help guide them to the possible murderer, location, and weapon used for who killed them. Each player must...

In 1995, John Ronnander and Majicsoft for the Atari ST system released "Nertz." " It is a game that my family likes to take while traveling because all we need are decks of cards and we build up our scores all through the trip," explains Ms. Cleveland. The game plays just like solitaire in which players build up the Aces/suits in the middle going from Ace to King and down in their personal play area...

In 1995, Franckh-Kosmos Verlag as Die Siedler von Catan released "Settler of Catan." Settlers of Catan and all of the various remakes of the game are a great resource management game. There is a degree of randomness to it because it relies on rolling a die to determine what resources players can get, if any. It is a strategy based game because it is both a race to get 10 points first but players also...