June Staff Picks: Round Two!
- Name of Game: Betrayal Legacy
- Overall rating: 4.5 Meeples
- Publisher: Avalon Hill Games, Inc.
- Year published: 2018
- Type: Cooperative/Betrayal game
- Difficulty: Easy
- Play time: 30-60 minutes
- Rule complexity: Medium
- Number of players: 5
- Bits: Fun figures, solid card stock, and plenty of surprises.
Betrayal Legacy is a wonderful twist on the classic game. Each session starts by exploring, and adding rooms to a horrible haunted home, each tile either giving items or events along the way as the players prepare for the Betrayal itself! After so much exploring, the Haunt starts, and a player is chosen at random to become the Betrayer! Can everyone else work together to stop them? Or will the darkness within the house grow worse over time? As a Legacy game each win and loss adds to a continuing story, sometimes it will be worth it to lose so your family can have an advantage next time! Best of all, unlike some other legacy games, when the final chapter is completed, Betrayal comes with complete instructions how to seal in the game as a complete experience that surpasses the original for endless replayability. –Joshua Bennett
- Name of Game: Cat Lady
- Overall rating: 4.5 Meeples
- Publisher: AEG Alderac Entertainment Group
- Year published: 2017
- Type: Tile-Layer, Card-Collector
- Difficulty: Easy
- Play time: 30-60 minutes
- Rule complexity: Medium
- Number of players: 2-4
- Bits: Excellent cardboard pieces and cards, cute graphics
Cat Lady is a cat collecting game. Our goal is to collect as many cats as possible, feed them, and have the least left over food. The person with the highest score wins. We can increase our score by collecting different toys for our cats, catnip, and cat costumes. The game is played in turns that are individually rather quick, so I have found that the game was pretty engaging. For a small light-hearted game, I have no complaints. –Boyce Asquith
- Name of Game: The Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Overall rating: 4 Meeples
- Publisher: Schmidt Spiele
- Year published: 2018
- Type: Bag building, press your luck
- Difficulty: Easy
- Play time: 45 mins
- Rule complexity: Medium
- Number of players: 2-4
- Bits: Good bits
Bag building at it’s finest! I really love this game. Great with any number of players and has just enough to it to keep players thinking about what the best ingredient to add to their bag is while also keeping pace of play high and the game moving forward. My group has made it our mission each time we play to hit the ladle at the end of the cauldron track as a moral victory. Between easy to grasp mechanics and modality to keep things fresh, The Quacks of Quedlinburg is a unique experience that continues to keep everyone engaged and entertained even after many plays. –Garrett Schneider
