We live in an golden age for board games and more and more interesting games get released week after week. So how to keep track of all them? Boardgamegeek is an invaluable tool, collecting lots of information and reviews about all sorts of games. But even BGG has a hard time to keep up with all the new games, so it happens more and more that games arrive in shops with not much known about them and no reviews or videos available. This leads to the problem that some games fall through the cracks and get ignored, despite being interesting and in hindsight quite good games.
/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphThat's where my new weekly blog post called Games you might have missed comes in: each week I'm planning to point out a game that has been released in the last couple of months but went a bit under the radar. I will try to focus on games that I think will be interesting for most of my customers.
/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphWithout further ado, I will start with the first game: Vampire: The Masquerade – Heritage from Nice Game Publishing.
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/wp:quote wp:paragraphIn Vampire The Masquerade – Heritage, you play the role of an ancient vampire. You shape seven hundred years of vampiric and human history in pursuit of ancient secrets while trying to evade the inquisition and attempting to save what’s left of your humanity.
Vampire The Masquerade – Heritage is a quick-playing legacy game. Each game, players gather characters from a common pool for their bloodlines. These characters influence different vampiric “battlegrounds” and help in fulfilling history-based missions. For example, a noble-born warrior might support Joan of Arc in ending the siege of Orleans, while at the same time changing the balance of an internal vampiric power struggle or attracting the unwanted attention of the inquisition. Aside from collecting characters in their bloodline, players can also use the unique intrigue cards of the clan they are playing — changing the rules of the game in ways that fit the character of that particular clan.
After any individual game, the players get to collect their achievements in their timeline, which serves as a chronicle of their actions throughout the seven hundred years of history and also influences the final outcome of the campaign.
Eventually, the seven hundred years will end with a climactic conclusion as players scramble to unravel ancient mysteries using the clues, allies, and power they have gathered throughout the campaign.
(Source: Publisher description)
Like the description say, Vampire: Heritage is a legacy game that lets you control your bloodline for centuries in different missions. But it also offers a one-off mode so you can also play the game outside of the campaign mode.
/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphWith more and more people now having received their game. the ratings on BGG are getting more reliable and are at the moment at 7.8 (based on 159 ratings):
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/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphIf you would like to take a closer look at the components, here is an unboxing video of the game (the video is based on the Kickstarter Edition which we have in stock at the moment) from the end of November:
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/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphThat's all for the first week. Next week I will take a look at Polynesia, the latest game from Peer Sylvester.
/wp:paragraph wp:paragraphPS: If you have any suggestions what I can do different or what I can add to the Games you might have missed posts, please let me know in the comments
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