The long-awaited return of The Play Lab playtest night is here! Game designers bring their works-in-progress to a night of open play, where you get to the be the one to try it before anyone else! (Probably)
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The games lineup for Volume 5:
Name: Bloomhunter
Description: Airships voyage far and wide to gather the finest flowers, building bouquets to impress both commoners and nobles at the grand festival. Bloomhunter has a two-stage tile-laying mechanic that creates a map of a magical archipelago. Some actions will let you place islands, which reward their discoverers with strong single-use powers. Once an island is on the map, anybody can place terrain tiles on top of it to extend their flower-gathering engine. There are also area-control and action-selection mechanics.
Player Count: 2-4
Play Time: 90-150 minutes
Name: Causality
Description: A 2-player competitive trick taking game about rival time travelers going opposite directions in time trying to erase each other from existence. You sit across from each other and each play your tricks left to right, so my trick 1 is your trick 5. It is very mind-melty.
Player Count: 2
Play Time: 30 minutes
Name: Defend Troy
Description: A mythic strategy board game inspired by the Trojan War that blends large-scale battlefield tactics, legendary heroes, divine intervention, and asymmetric gameplay. The game features multiple modes, including fully cooperative and competitive play, with players taking command of either the Trojans defending the city or the Greeks attempting to breach it. It combines strategic positioning, card-driven actions, evolving battlefield pressure, and an automated “Fates” system that controls enemy responses in cooperative modes.
Player Count: 2-10
Play Time: 90-150 minutes
