Countdown to Gen Con 2020: 100-91
This week, the State of Indiana released a plan to transition back into full public life after COVID-19. The current dates on the plan targets July 4th for all business and events to return to normal, though Indianapolis may be a bit delayed due to population density. With Gen Con's start date of July 30, we are cautiously optimistic that the date will not be postponed! We hope everyone continues to remain safe as we transition back into public life, so that we can hit these projected dates.
Games Featured:
Day 100: Nefarious
Day 99: Catacombs & Castles
Day 98: The Downfall of Pompeii
Day 97: Talisman Kingdom Hearts
Day 96: Camel Cup
Day 95: The Mystery of the Temples
Day 94: The Estates
Day 93: 7 Wonders
Day 92: Tsuro
Day 91: Discover: Lands Unknown
Catacombs & Castles is one of our few dexterity games. We've really only played it once, and only two of us at that. We enjoyed it, haven't gotten it back off shelf. Downfall of Pompeii and The Estates are two more that we enjoyed, but have only played once.
Discover: Lands Unknown also happens to be in this category, but it's much newer than the rest. We bought this one out of curiosity; because the game is procedurally generated, no two copies are the same. We've since seen a few used ones at Half Price Books, and considered buying another copy to understand some of the variation.
Tsuro, Nefarious, 7 Wonders, and Camel Up are some of our most played games. They are all relatively fast, so we tend to choose these either when we are waiting for everyone to arrive, or at the end of a GameDay when we don't want to pull out anything huge... like Talisman Kingdom Hearts. The game is beautiful, the implementation using the Kingdom Hearts theme is excellent, but it's definitely a "start of the day" sort of game.
Mystery of the Temples was one that we first played on Tabletopia. Deep Water Games has been offering Gamer Relief Bundles with deep discounts over the last few weeks. The bundle we bought including Mystery of the Temples was meant to come with a playmat, but an inventory error meant that they were not available at the time of shipping. The company was nice enough to offer us a discount on a future purchase, but we can't decide if we'd rather get another game or go for upgraded components.