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Tainted Grail
It's a bit mean to include this one as it's kickstarter only and mostly impossible to get your hands on but my copy arrived in early Dec and I've run through the whole campaign twice already and it is far & away my game of 2019.
set in an apocalyptic arthurian setting you play an adventurer setting forth from their village to try and escape the blight creeping across the land.
predominantly an exploration/survival based game you explore your surroundings by moving from location to location and interacting with the surroundings/people and events that happen.
narrative is extremely rich and each location has a number of pages of choose your own adventure style choices to traverse as you engage and perform different tasks.
there is also a book of secrets where plot points unfold and the story really takes shape.
the game is broken into chapters which has an event deck which progresses with each passing turn/day in the game. the goals are somewhat open ended and how you achieve them is often up to you.
additionally you have combat and diplomacy decks for encounters and a pretty ingenious key matching mechanic for success and failure.
Solo can be played with a single character and each character in the box interacts with parts of the storyline in different ways as well as having different skills and attributes.
Pros:
Amazing game.
At least 3-4 playthroughs if you want to try and see all the storylines take shape and even then you wont see every outcome.
amazing quality
Cons:
Good luck finding a copy.
sidenote: No Pun Included did a youtube review on it but it is such a hatchet job (and they dont even like the type of game it is in the first place) that I would say don't even watch it as most of their conclusions just don't hold water having played 60 odd hours of the game. response to the video was mostly people who played the game saying they're wrong and fans of their show saying it must be true if they said it and slagging it off because it was a kickstarter game.
there's more content coming in a second wave from KS with another 1.5 campaigns and already it's my most anticipated release for 2020/21.
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