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Champion of Earth: Review Information: Mechanics: Push Your Luck, Hand Management, Take That Player Age: 5+ Player Count: 1 - 6 Players Time to Play: 10 - 40 Minutes Game Designer:  Ed Jowett Game Artists: Sophia Michailidou Publisher:  Shades of Vengeance Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. BGG Link Kickstarter Link Objective: Earth has been invaded by an onslaught of aliens, undead, and creature monsters. Your job is to successfully vanquish the most monsters. In the event that all heroes fall to their knees in front of the ruling invaders, you still have a chance to be champion by having defeated the most. Card Anatomy: Hero Cards: These cards represent your character and each player is given one before starting the game. If they are harmed during battle they will flip to their injured side. Once injured, if the hero is struck again they will die and be taken out of the game to tally their score. E...

Era Survival Colony: Review Information: Mechanics: Cooperative, Asymmetrical, Resource Management Player Age: 10+ Player Count: 1 - 4 Players Time to Play: 45 - 60 Minutes Game Designer:  Ed Jowett Game Artists: Mikhail Greuli Graphic Designer: Jam Acosta Publisher:  Shades of Vengeance Disclaimer: A preview copy for the game was provided by the publisher. The Game: Objective: The objective of Era Survival Colony is to survive 8 rounds, while not being infected on the 8th round. Players will lose if any of these three objectives are met: 1. If the colony is infected after the 8th round 2. If the colony has been infected for three consecutive rounds 3. If all the people in the colony are infected or dead at any point. Now remember that this is a cooperative game, so win or lose, the players will achieve this together and your best chance at survival is to plan and assist each other. Card Anatomy: Crisis Cards: These crisis cards will have negative e...

Evil Overlord: Kickstarter Preview Information: Mechanics: Trading, real-time, hand management Player Age: 6+ Player Count:  3 to 10 players Time to Play: 5 Minutes Publisher: Shades of Vengeance Game Creator and Designer: Ed Jowett Graphic Designer: Alexander Korchnev Artwork: Sophia Michailidou Disclaimer : This is a prototype copy so everything could change when the game launches on Kickstarter and could change again once the game is finalized. How to play: The game begins with each player getting a total of 7 cards each of which they are not allowed to look at, sorry no peeking! Then on the count of 3...2...1 everyone can now look at there cards and begin trading. Trading is the beginning of the first of two phases within the game. The two phases are called: The Market Phase and The Battle Phase. The Market Phase: This phase is reminiscent of how the game 'Pit' works in that all players are simultaneously trading a chosen number of cards for an equ...