dV Games will always have a soft spot in my heart due to their bestselling Bang! Card game. I’m a big fan as long as players understand it’s a fast-moving game. I brought the game to my school and the students were so addicted that they could eat lunch and play two games during their 25 minute lunch hour. It was nice to see the (now classic) Bang!:The Bullet release from a while back that included the base game and three or four expansions but I hadn’t seen the Bang! Dynamite Box released a few years ago that contained everything ever made for the card game. All that Bang! Said, the dice version has its own new collection, Bang!: Dice Explosion that collects all of that version’s expansions as well. Other games in the booth coming soon include Lost in Adventure: The Labyrinth which is a co-op exploration game where players look at location cards to gather clues to interact with items and characters. Until Proven Guilty is an app-driven game of examining evidence cards to find which evidence is the actual incriminating stuff. An app handles the trial, giving feedback as to whether evidence presented matches the case or not. Fans of the tile collecting and laying Bonsai will want to know about Bonsai: Wabi Sabi which has several modules that can be added to the game, including everything needed to add a fifth player. Finally, we have Rumblebots – a deckbuilder version of the popular Auto Battler videogame genre. Players build up their bots, send them into battle, gain resources, build them up (or add more bots) through six rounds to declare a final winner. There are similarities to Challengers! but I don’t know enough details of Rumblebots to make a comparison.

Lost in Adventure: The Labyrinth

Lost in Adventure: The Labyrinth is a cooperative game that has players placing cards to move and interact with the environment (the Minotaur labyrinth in this case) as a single character (controlled by all) investigates things.  In a choose your own adventure style, players can move to new locations between cards and interact with characters and items. Location cards show available interactions which will lead to more cards, etc… Players have to maintain their Courage as a sort of game-ending tracker while they are trying to fulfill prophecies and gain favor which serve as points. The game will be out in September, runs about $20, works with 1-6 people and takes about an hour to play. Due to the way the cards come into play, one might be able to play it another time or two before maxing out all it has to offer. As you could guess by the name, there should be more Lost in Adventure games in the future.