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City of Gears now on Kickstarter
Grey Fox Games, publisher of many fan-favourite games such as Champions of Midgard and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, has just come to Kickstarter with another game that looks really cool.
City of Gears (Designers: Daryl Andrews and Chris Leder; Artists: Anthony Cournoyer and Chris Leder) is an area management game that sort of reverses the whole steampunk concept. Up to four players compete to uncover an abandoned steampunk city (though you are using automatons, so maybe it’s not exactly reversing). Players are trying to earn the most prestige over three rounds until Opening Day happens and all of the treasures are put on the display for the world to see.
Each city is formed by a grid of 9 random city tiles placed face down (there are 18 tiles in the game, so there is a lot of variation). Players will roll resource dice and then use those resources to send their automaton to various parts of the city, gaining control of the area or just exposing it. Automatons can be used to destroy opponents’ gear links and send their workers back to their home factor (aka: the supply).
Once the city is revealed, Opening Day approaches steadily and players race for control and prestige points.
Grey Fox Games has two support tiers: Standard that gets you the game, and the Founders Edition that provides upgraded pieces and all the razzle dazzle that deluxe versions of these games usually get.
They’ve already almost tripled their goal, which is nice to see. It looks like an amazing game.
This was originally going to become part of the Dice Tower Essentials line, but I think Grey Fox Games will do a great job with it as well.
Check out their Kickstarter page for all of the stretch goals (they’ve already unlocked additional map tiles and close to even more map tiles).
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I feel at this point I should just start buying Grey Fox Game’s entire catalogue. 😀 😥
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I will one day be able to play Champions of Midgard. Just haven’t had the chance. I really want to.
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