Gaming Library notes:

Betrayal is another scooby-doo game but the difference? One of you might turn into the villain to betray your friends! Who can you trust?

Description:

Ages: 12+ 

Playing time: 60 minutes

Price: Php2200

9.  A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

Gaming Library notes:

Want to play a fantasy role play campaign but don’t have the time to spare? Pathfinder deck building game offers that experience in just 90 minutes for a scenario! Build your character and level them up as you go on fantasy adventure.

 Description:

Gaming Library notes:

Have you ever wanted to play as the Scooby-doo gang? Eldritch Horror is exactly like that except you now fight monsters and ancient ones from Lovecraft’s world.

Description:

Eldritch Horror is a cooperative game of terror and adventure in which one to eight players take the roles of globetrotting investigators working to solve mysteries, gather clues, and protect the world from an Ancient One – that is, an elder being intent on destroying our world. Each Ancient One comes with its own unique decks of Mystery and Research cards, which draw you deeper into the lore surrounding each loathsome creature. Discover the true name of Azathoth or battle Cthulhu on the high seas.

 

While the tasks on these Mystery cards (along with the locations of otherworldly gates, menacing monsters, and helpful clues) will often inform both your travel plans and the dangers you confront, you can find adventure anywhere in the world…even where you least expect it. It is during the Encounter Phase of each turn that players resolve combat or, alternatively, build their investigators’ personal stories by reading an encounter narrative from one of several types of Encounter cards. You might go head to head with a monster in Istanbul or find yourself in a tough spot with the crime syndicate in a major city. Maybe you will embark on an expedition to the Pyramids or research a clue you uncover in the unnamed wilderness. You may even find your way through a gate and explore a dimension beyond time and space.

 

No. of players: 1-8
Ages: 14+ 
Playing time: 180 minutes

Price: Php2550

 

6. Ticket to Ride: Europe

Gaming Library notes:

Ticket to Ride is a quick classic game that’s part of the board game trinity along with Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. Ticket to Ride has a more universal appeal as you connect trains all across the map. Choo-choo!

 

Description:

Ticket to Ride: Europe takes you on a new train adventure across Europe. From Edinburgh to Constantinople and from Lisbon to Moscow, you’ll visit great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. Like the original Ticket to Ride, the game remains elegantly simple, can be learned in 5 minutes, and appeals to both families and experienced gamers. Ticket to Ride: Europe is a complete, new game and does not require the original version.

More than just a new map, Ticket to Ride: Europe features brand new gameplay elements. Tunnels may require you to pay extra cards to build on them, Ferries require locomotive cards in order to claim them, and Stations allow you to sacrifice a few points in order to use an opponents route to connect yours. The game also includes larger format cards and Train Station game pieces.

The overall goal remains the same, collect and play train cards in order to place your pieces on the board, attempting to connect cities on your ticket cards. Points are earned both from placing trains and completing tickets but uncompleted tickets lose you points. The player who has the most points at the end of the game wins.

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No. of players: 2-5
Ages: 10+ 
Playing time: 60 minutes

Price: Php2400

 

5. Netrunner

Gaming Library notes:

Netrunner is the 2nd baby of the famous MTG designer – Richard Garfield. You play two sides – Runner and Corporation in a sci-fi competitive card game play.

 

Description:

Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration, the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.

  

Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with “ice”. These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation’s virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.

  

In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. 

 

When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It’s not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort’s defenses, there’s no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.

  

The first player to seven points wins the game, but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.

 

No. of players: 2-4

Ages: 14+ 
Playing time: 45 minutes

Price: Php1400

 

4. Smash Up

 

 

Gaming Library notes:

Smash Up introduces a new board game concept called – shuffle building game and pairs it up with the awesome questions everyone thinks about once in a while. 

DinoRobots vs ZombieNinjas? GhostPirates vs AlienGnomes?

 

Description:

 

The “shufflebuilding” game Smash Up starts with a simple premise: Take the twenty-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents! Each faction brings a different game mechanism into play – pirates move cards, zombies bring cards back from the discard pile, dinosaurs have huge power – and every combination of factions brings a different play experience.

  

During play, Base cards (each with their own difficulties and abilities) are in play. You attempt to have the most power on the Base from your minions when the Base is smashed. Sounds easy? How easy is it when an opponent’s Alien-Ninja decides to Beam Up your minions to other Bases – flat out Assassinate them? What about when the Pirate-Dinosaur player Full Sails in and releases King Rex to stomp your minions into the ground, or when the Wizard-Zombies use their Mystic Power to create an Outbreak, suddenly flooding minions onto the Base from the discard pile? Or what if you faced a Zombie-Dinosaur player instead and he created an Outbreak of massive beasts all at once?!?

  

When a Base is smashed, each player in first, second and third place scores points. Fourth place? Sorry, bro – try harder next time.

  

With eight different factions, Smash Up includes dozens of combinations to try. Pirate-Aliens play different than Ninja-Aliens, for instance. Which will you use to smash up your opponents?

 

And did we mention the dinosaurs have laser beams?

 

No. of players: 2-4
Ages: 14+ 
Playing time: 45 minutes

Price: Php1370

 

 

 3. Robinson Crusoe 

Gaming Library notes:

Robinson Crusoe is a new cooperative game where players work together with to survive in the cursed island. Players will have to rely on each other and their wits to survive. The game is deep and intense making it an interesting choice for an epic game night. 

This game has always been sold out everywhere in the international market and only arrived in the Philippines via Gaming Library in 2014. 

 

Description:

Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island is a game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. 

This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they’ll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They’ll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes.

Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find and much more awaits them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. 

Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game…

No. of players: 1-4
Ages: 14+ 
Playing time: 120 minutes

Price: Php3300

 

2. Pandemic

Gaming Library notes:

Pandemic still remains to be the best cooperative game in the market today. The game was relaunched with new art and new roles which makes it so much more appealing to non-gamers. Get ready to save the world from deadly viruses!

 

Description:
After five years of Pandemic, hundreds of thousands of players have contracted the virus! To celebrate this milestone, Pandemic has been completely re-designed. With new artwork by Chris Quilliams (Clash of Cultures, Merchants & Marauders), Pandemic will now have a more modern look, inside and outside the box. With two new characters (the Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist) face the game in ways you never thought possible as brand-new, virulent challenges await you!

No. of players: 2-4 
Ages: 10+ 
Playing time: 45-60 minutes

Price: Php1750

 

1. King of Tokyo

At the start of each turn, you roll six dice. The dice show the following six symbols: 1, 2 or 3 Points of Destruction, Energy, Healing and Whack. Over three successive throws, choose whether to keep or discard each die in order to win destruction points, hoard energy, restore health, or whack other players into understanding that Tokyo is YOUR territory.

The fiercest player will be crowned King of Tokyo… and will end up facing all the other monsters alone!

Top this off with special cards purchased with energy that have a permanent or temporary effect, such as the growing of a second head which grants you an additional die, body armor, nova death ray, and more…. and it’s one of the most explosive games of the year!

In order to win the game, one must either destroy Tokyo by accumulating 20 destruction points, or be the only surviving monster once the fighting has ended.

 No. of players: 2-6

Ages: 10+ 
Playing time: 30 minutes

Price: Php1900

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Top 10 International Board Games Available in the Philippines