Coming Soon: Coming to Kickstarter in September is the newest PNP Arcade Publishing Roll and Write Game. Following our releases of Dungeon Pages, and Battle Pages comes Coin Pusher: Galactic Surge!
This roll & write game recreates the fun and addicting arcade games, currently very popular in Japan. Puzzle your way through valuable point tokens and powerful unlocking abilities to topple coins and gain rewards to reach your new high score! Plays solo or multiplayer.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasongreeno/coin-pusher
It's New Game Friday David Wiley (Cardboard Clash) is here to tell us about the new games.
Here’s what is new this week:
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Pulp Dreadful: Assault on Castle Nachtenthal
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SHUCK: A Deadly Chase Through a Cursed Forest
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Battle Pages: Kingdom of Hellenburg, Marching Order #2
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Power Creep: Bohdan, East Burg 2113
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Dangerous Space: Geida, Deliver Mission
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GRIMLORE: Profane Truths Case File #29: Eliza Hartley, Mythos Linguist & Historian
https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/new-games
Pulp Dreadful: Assault on Castle Nachtenthal
The children of Ravenspur are vanishing. One by one. Night after night. As a detective of the City Watch, you’ve traced the horrors to a single place: Castle Nachtenthal - where Cardinal Malvezzi offers innocent blood to summon an army of demons. The time for questions is over. Now comes the reckoning. Now begins the Assault on Castle Nachtenthal.
Explore your way through the six distinct areas of the castle as you gear and level up to face down the dreadful Cardinal. Each region requires you to do at least one encounter, so you’ll get to experience at least something from every spot you venture into, and some require a certain amount of gained XP to be able to advance into there. With a simple, clear progression this solo adventure is a quick one to hit your table when you have a bit of downtime to burn.
SHUCK: A Deadly Chase Through a Cursed Forest
The daemon hound BLACK SHUCK has returned to Drachenheim. The Wise Ones of the forest have retreated to the sacred grove to perform the ancient banishing rites - but they are missing one crucial ingredient: a rare and sacred Whisperoot. You are The Courier, the only one brave or foolish enough to carry the root through the cursed woods of Wraw Hollow. BLACK SHUCK hunts you relentlessly. The twisted denizens of the forest, warped by the hound’s dark influence, rise to halt your path. You must reach the grove before it’s too late. But with every step, the forest pushes back.
Journey through the dangerous forest, rolling for encounters after each movement as the SHUCK hunts you down. You cannot defeat this foe, well, at least not until you get the Whisperoot and reach the correct location to perform the rites. I love the tables on these, which bring some elements of uncertainty to what you might run across as you explore and fend off this fearsome beast. Who wouldn’t want to come across Singing Mushrooms or The Vixen-Faced as one of their encounters?
Battle Pages: Kingdom of Hellenburg, Marching Order #2
There’s a saying in town—if Hellenburg folks didn’t have bad luck, they’d have no luck at all
The Kingdom is back and needing defending from waves of the enemies. This week we’re going to zoom in quick on the boss enemy. The nefarious Spider Queen is terrorizing Hellenburg, and she’s got a few tricks up her web. When she triggers, she targets all surrounding units, which is a pretty brutal effect on its own. But her passive ability is worse: you cannot gain gems from her region. With only 4 regions on the map, that means there could be huge swaths of your troops that get nullified by her.
Power Creep: Bohdan, East Burg 2113
A figure walks through the streets at night. The few who’ve escaped its gaze tell strange stories of its power.
Here we have our second installment with Bohdan, and he’s got a pretty nice Blueprint ability. Once you unlock it, you can circle three numbers that match a used die to reroll that used die. In a game where every new round rolls the evil dice, being able to regain a used die can be a huge save. Speaking of which, we have some of the nicest Threats so far in Power Creep. These Water Nomads are awesome, because you circle them when defeating them and can later cross them out to reroll a die. That, my friends, is an awesome benefit.
Dangerous Space: Geida, Deliver Mission
Geida was always the sidekick until her entire team got ‘wiped’ in a faulty training exercise. Now she goes solo on all missions.
On paper, this mission should be no big threat to Geida. After all, she comes equipped with strong range, and can boost it further. She has good movement paths to unlock, and she doesn’t really have any strong foes to face. You may not even want, or need, to grab her Risk Taker skill since she doesn’t need any die manipulation beyond what you use to damage the foes standing in your path. While both have annoying abilities – one reduces your range, the other boosts their defense – they shouldn’t be too much for you to handle on your run through The Hammerhead.
GRIMLORE: Profane Truths Case File #29: Eliza Hartley, Mythos Linguist & Historian
After surviving the horrors beneath the Australian desert, Eliza Hartley returns to Boston seeking respite. But her peace shatters when she receives a letter from a vanished painted, Richard Upton Pickman, whose grotesque canvases hint at truths more dreadful than any nightmare. The note begs her to find his hidden studio, claiming his “models” were no figments of the imagination. Driven by duty and dread fascination, Eliza ventures into the labyrinthine North End. There, amid peeling brick and sour earth, she must uncover whether Pickman succumbed to madness, or merely recorded the obscene realities that lurk beneath the crumbling city streets.
Eliza is in for a tough time this week, as she comes equipped with only a Paleolite Trowel and a willingness to do the right thing. As she ventures further, she’ll find that the Ochre Shamblers can not only bruise her sanity, but make the weaker Crawlspace Feeders break through her armor when they attack. If that wasn’t enough, the Grandsire Pallid can shut down her ability to place a letter into the scenario this turn and, if all goes poorly, will also damage you more in the process. You best hope her Artifacts are up to snuff for this one…
Check out Game of the Week here: https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/game-of-the-week
Button Shy Game of the Week: Lands of Amazement - Kickstarter Preview
Creating fun takes hard work! As an aspiring amusement park designer you’ll need to build your portfolio by designing smaller parks before you can take on a top-tier megapark.
This game is bound to be a nice, solo brainburner type of game. You’re building amusement parks over the course of four rounds, using polyomino shapes on your cards to match them to the objective for the round. All of these serve as a preface to the real end game of this solo gem: the Megapark phase. In this, you’re using all of the cards in your Reserve stack to try and recreate the Megapark shown on the goal card, trying to get it to also have the same number of icons shown from the earlier rounds. This doesn’t do the game justice, though. If you enjoy solo games that require some thinking and planning, you won’t want to miss out on Lands of Amazement.
Check out the new Button Shy releases here:
https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/new-games
Game of the Week: Mindburners on sale for $5!
Mindburners is a cyber-occult dungeon runner game for 1-4 players. As void runners, players must push their luck and enter the void to gather resources, thwart their opponents, battle horrific foes, and seal the breach, closing the void forever.
Forget running in the Net, you want to run in the Void. In this competitive game there’s a deck of cards that all players will need to overcome, and there are things you can do to help your player prepare for it. Survive better than the others and you’ll score more points, allowing you to achieve victory first. Yet every choice has some degree of risk tied to it, and the more you risk the harder you might fall. A fun, fast press-your-luck game of head-to-head competition that also comes with a really interesting solo mode to play.
Check out Game of the Week here: https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/game-of-the-week