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Prepare for the Holidays with Skeletons, Werewolves, Ghasts, and Bad Christmas Gifts

by W. Eric Martin

I wrote about the dexterity game Flick or Treat in an October 2022 post, but surely that’s not the only holiday-themed game popping up on the market these days, hmmm?

Smash Up: 10th Anniversary from Paul Peterson and AEG hits U.S. retailers on October 28, 2022, and this standalone set contains a new skeleton faction for those who want to throw bones at bases.

To stay on theme, AEG shared this preview image for a 2023 Smash Up set in an October 2022 newsletter, noting that you should “gather your squad for when Smash Up gets totally radical next year”.

Anyone else might shy away from the effort required for a Groin Strike faction, but I think AEG can make it happen.

• On the topic of werewolves, publisher 9th Level Games has released Women Are Werewolves, with this being a storytelling experience rather than a game. An overview from the publisher:

At its heart, Women are Werewolves is a game about discovering your boundaries and whether you can find, or make, a space for your authentic self within a family that might not understand you.

All characters are nonbinary. Players determine whether their characters have a wolf form or not, and build their own werewolf mythology as the game progresses.

Make a place for yourself in the family that raised you, or choose to find family elsewhere. What will you decide?

• And still speaking of wolves, I’ve yet to cover The Wolves, a game by Ashwin Kamath and Clarence Simpson that Pandasaurus Games debuted at SPIEL ’22 and that hit retail in Q4 2022.

An overview:

The Wolves is a pack-building strategy game for 2-5 players. It’s survival of the fittest as you compete to build the largest, most dominant pack by claiming territory, recruiting lone wolves, and hunting prey. But be careful not to expand too recklessly into terrain where your rivals thrive – they may lure members of your pack away.

A clever action-selection mechanism drives your choices. Each action requires you to flip terrain tiles matching the terrain where you wish to take your action. These double-sided tiles mean the actions you take this round will set up which terrain types you can act on in the next round. As you take actions to expand your pack’s control of each region, you also upgrade your pack’s attributes, allowing you to take more aggressive actions as the game goes on.

In three mid-game scoring phases, power is calculated in each region. At the end of the game, players tally points based on VP tokens earned in these scoring phases and the highest VP number revealed in each of the six tracks on your player board. The player with the most VP wins!

Okay, this isn’t really a Halloween-themed game, but I’m leaving this description here and moving on all the same.

Photoghasts: The Haunted Photo Game is a self-published game by T.W. Burgess that was crowdfunded in November 2021 and delivered to backers in August 2022. The gameplay isn’t entirely clear, but it appears that you scan cards using an app to exorcise ghosts. Maybe this is more of an experience thing than a game? Not sure, but I’ll leave further investigation to your whim.

• Looking further down the calendar, Steve Jackson Games has two Christmas-themed games on its release schedule, although due to shipping delays the container holding these two Steve Jackson designs might keep them out of stockings until January 2023.

In The 12 Dice of Christmas, you attempt to pick dice with the right numbers so that you can buy the presents you need for the holiday, while keeping others from checking off items on their list.

In Bad Christmas, 3-6 players participate in a gift exchange with items like tuna-flavored candy canes and an inflatable birdhouse, trying to end up with the items on their wishlist before the game comes to a sudden end.

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