Shadow Rivals
- Designer: Halifa
- Publisher: Moaideas Game Design
- Players: 2-5
- Ages: 12+
- Time: 30 minutes
- Times played, 2 with review copy provided by Moaideas Game Design
In Shadow Rivals, you will be leading a team of 8 skillful bandits each with a different specialty, robbing the riches from the extravagant parties that take place every night. But there are rival teams that also want to rob these patricians, so you will need all your wits to gain the upper hand, and make sure you get the biggest slice of the pie. The church bell has just rung for 6 pm, so put on your cloak and go meet your crew in the dark alley near a fancy mansion. It is now time to roll and show them who leads the most notorious team of bandits in town, laughing all the way to the bank.
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Patrick Brennan: Game Snapshots –2019 (Part 22)
It’s mostly disappointment city in this collection of new stuff, but that’s ok, the fun is in the exploring. One player’s trash is another’s treasure after all.
In non-new gaming we’ve been on a Terraforming Mars kick the last few weeks. We play with all income starting on 0 and allow the prelude cards to kick-start income in a direction that hopefully meshes with your cards which gives a nice focus and direction to play with. I’ve upped the rating to a 9, the continual challenge being the valuation of cards vis a vis the standard projects at each stage of the game. I’m still not sure it needs any other expansions yet. Combine the price of the other three expansions and man, I could be buying a top-line exxy game like Everdell!
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