We're Not Wizards - Tabletop Board Game Reviews

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  I'm a huge fan of the original Horizon Zero Dawn videogame. Its mixture of exploration, imagination and some of the most fun combat you could have cost me hours in leisure time. It was a game that I picked through in chunks, gasped at its breath taking set pieces and scenery, and enjoyed a story that while seemed far fetched, managed to be both full of heart and humanity and sold itself extremely well. How do you take a game that quite literally covered an area the size of a continent and make it something playable on some pressed and printed trees that sit on your table? You take the one of the core facets of the experience and hone it down into the one of the purest parts of the game. The hunt itself. One the things I enjoyed about the original game was the combat and how much it required planning ahead of the execution. With the number of resources and possible lines of attack you could take, often what you did before you notched that first arrow would often decide on how the

SteamForged have always been on my radar since the days of the Dark Souls Board Game, which in my mind was always going to be a near impossible task to please the fan base. How can you ever compete with the glory and gameplay that exists within someone's head? The trouble with IPs is that you get a licence for them because they have a fanbase. In doing so you then have to live up to the expectations of that same fan base. You can imagine that even if you did the perfect iteration that 98% of people loved, you would still get the comments from B1gG35TFANN419 about what really non important bit you missed out on in the gameplay videos on YouTube. I admire Steamforged alone for that, putting themselves to the be the sacrificial lambs of taking that risk with those characters and pushing through, regardless of the limitations and never letting their heads drop down. Then we come to Godtear, that doesn't have the slightest hint of connection to any kind of se