The closer we get to the end of May the quieter it gets for us because most of our customers are starting to prepare for the UK Games Expo. But we still had a good start to the month with lots of sales and newly placed pre-orders, so here is the look at last month’s Top 5.
Stonemaier Games has announced the August release of My Little Scythe:
Stonemaier Games, known for high-quality, critically acclaimed Euro-style board games, will release its first family-friendly design, My Little Scythe this summer. The game will premiere at Gen Con and release to trade on August 17.
My Little Scythe began as a fan-inspired print-and-play game using Scythe mechanics, mashed up with Hasbro’s My Little Pony. The Stonemaier edition has changed slightly (no ponies), but impressed the publisher enough to warrant a trade release.
Players in My Little Scythe each control two animal miniatures, travelling around the Kingdom of Pomme. Players are competing to earn 4 trophies from 8 possible categories, using actions on their turn to Move, Seek, or Make. The actions can increase players friendship, produce pies, power up actions, finish quests, learn spells, transport gems and apples to the castle, or even start a pie fight!
Scythe and Terraforming Mars have both been massively successful board games in the last couple of years. Now both of them are going digital: Asmodee Digital has confirmed the releases of Scythe and Terraforming Mars on Steam.
Q2 means that we have to wait a bit for Terraforming Mars. But Scythe is much closer and the Steam Store shows a release date of Q1. And Asmodee Digital already showed gameplay of Scythe on Twitch:
Stonemaier Games has announced the third and final expansion for Scythe:
Scythe: The Rise of Fenris is set in the same post-apocalyptic steampunk world as the base game and earlier expansions, and is fully compatible with all previous expansions. The heart of The Rise of Fenris is an eight-part campaign that uses a number of features commonly found in “legacy” style games, including secret components in sealed tuckboxes and persistent changes to the game from scenario to scenario. Unlike a typical legacy game, however, this expansion can be completely reset and replayed. In addition, the 11 modules that make up the campaign can all be used independently or combined as players see fit, even when not playing the campaign version.
Expected release date for the expansion is August/September 2018 (Gencon release) and we will offer it for pre-orders as soon as we have the details for the UK release.
We are getting closer and closer to Christmas and still, quite a few of the Essen releases haven’t arrived with us. But for this week a few more have been confirmed and it also looks good for next week.
Here are the games/expansions con arrive arrived this week:
Only two more weeks until Essen, time to ramp up the preparations for the busiest time of the year. A useful instrument to get a feeling for the interest in the new games presented at Essen are Youtube videos about the most anticipated games of the board game show.
I watched a few during the last couple of days and made notes which games where mentioned. The result is an aggregated Top 5 which in most parts is not very surprising:
1) Charterstone: The only game that was mentioned in every video. But not everybody is convinced that the game will work, but the combination of Legacy game and Eurogame has too much lure.
2) Nusford: After last years A Feast for Odin there are high hopes for another special Rosenberg game.
3) Altiplano: A new bag building game from the team behind Orleans? Count me in and it seems like I’m not the only one.
4) Meeple Circus (the only real surprise in the Top 5, I didn’t hear anything about this games before I started watching the videos, but I can see why people like it: stacking Meeples? What’s not to like?) and Gaia Project (Terra Mystica still has a lot of fans and the promise of a streamlined experience secures this heavyweight a Top 5 spot)
5) Clans of Caledonia (Radho called this game the Terra Mystica killer, so let’s see if Clans or the Gaia Project will be the bigger hit) and Photosynthesis (an abstract game with beautiful artwork and components which got a big boost in popularity after a pre-release at Gencon)
Honorable mentions of games that were mentioned quite often, but didn’t make the cut for the Top 5:
Fast Forward games from Friedeman Friese / Stronghold Games
Noria: the debut title from Sophia Wagner brought to life by Michael Menzel and Klemenz Franz
We have also received a restock of Roll Player and this time in larger numbers, so we put the game back up on our website.
And good news in regards to the reprint of Cthulhu Wars: It has cleared customs and has arrived at our supplier. We will receive our delivery and will start shipping pre-orders on Wednesday.
We also had hoped for an arrival early this week of the reprint of Cthulhu Wars, but unfortunately, it is stuck in customs and will need a few more days. Hopefully, by the end of the week, we should know more about the exact release date.
In the run up to the UK Games Expo May was a quieter month. But we still had a few interesting games to sell and we also added new pre-orders. Here are the Top 5 of May:
Top 5 Pre-Order
1. Caverna – Cave vs. Cave
2. Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island (Reprint)
3. Charterstone
4. Dark Souls: The Board Game
5. Cthulhu Wars
Top 5 Sales:
1. Magic Maze
2. Ethnos
3. In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary
4. Sagrada
5. Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary
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