My Board Wargame Wallet Threat Level this week is:
Preachy Woodrow Wilson.
GMT announced two P500s from Mark Herman, a renowned and respected designer. But one is an expansion of an old title, and one is a political game, not a wargame. I enjoy a good backstabbing and historically flavored Political Game, but this smacks of another recent release of his, Churchill, which left me blah.
Anyhow here they are:
Oh wow, I always wanted to try pelopennesian war!
For those who don’t know, this was a very hard to find solitaire game with a unique hook. That being, halfway through the game if you were doing well you would switch sides, effectively playing against your former position.
No idea how it plays in practice, but it sure is tempting.
Special Board Wargame Wallet Threat Level Alert:
Recent chatter on Social Media by GMT Games has been intercepted. The Board Historical Wargame Threat Center (BHWTC) is concerned, and in an abundance of caution is increasing the threat level from
Preachy Woodrow Wilson
to
Crazy Young Winston Churchill
Today GMT announced this:
So three P500 Games are shipping.
This does not impact me too much, in and of itself because I am not a CDG guy, and Sumter itself is really low on my list of topics, so I didn’t pre-order it. Funny, Mark Herman is one of my favorite designers, but we’re on different wavelengths lately…
Cataclysm is a quickie area movement WW2 game. Again, not my sort of thing, but it looks charming.
Fighting Formations: Kharkov is a scale and period in the East of WW2 that doesn’t float my boat either so I didn’t order it…
However…
In the same Twitter thread, GMT stated that in the next two weeks they will begin shipping these titles:
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-505-gallipoli-1915-churchills-greatest-gamble.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-511-hitlers-reich.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-465-no-retreat-3-the-french-and-polish-fronts.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-571-skies-above-the-reich.aspx
I preordered #1 and #3, so I’ll be getting charged soon. Alert!
Wallet Threat Level: Lots of indie games this week.
Tuesday, May 29
Agony — PS4, PC
Along Together — PS VR
Birdcakes — PS4, Xbox One
Black Hat Cooperative — PS VR
Die For Valhalla! — PS4, Switch
Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory — Switch
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope — PS4, Switch
The Journey Down: Chapter One — PS4
Ikaruga — Switch
Kabounce — PS4, PC
Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition — PS4, Switch
Legend of Kay Anniversary — Switch
Metal Slug XX — PS4
Moonlighter — PS4, Xbox One, PC
No Heroes Here — PS4
Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast — PS4
Old Man’s Journey — PS4
Owlboy — PS4
The Perfect Sniper — PS VR
Sega Genesis Classics — PS4, Xbox One
Shift Quantum — PS4, Switch
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection — PS4, Xbox One, Switch
To The Top — PS VR
Wraith — PS VR
Yoku’s Island Express — PS4, Xbox One, Switch
Wednesday, May 30
Stay — Xbox One
Die For Valhalla — Xbox One
Fox n Forests — Xbox One
Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Deluxier Edition — Xbox One
The Journey Down: Chapter One — Xbox One
Zamb! Redux — Xbox One
Thursday, May 31
ACA Neo Geo Ninja Combat — Switch
Defoliation — Switch
Dragon Lapis — Switch
Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge — PS4
ICEY — Switch
Johnny Turbo’s Arcade Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja — Switch
Just Shapes & Beats — Switch
Lost Sea — Switch
Masked Forces — WiiU
Milanoir — PS4, Xbox One, PC
Overload - PC
Personality and Psychology Premium — PS4
Pirate Pop Plus — Switch
Quad Fighter K — Switch
Smoke and Sacrifice— Switch
West of Loathing— Switch
Friday, June 1
Earth Atlantis — PS4, Xbox One
Illusion: A Tale of the Mind — PS4
Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition — Xbox One
Mining Rail — Xbox One
Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast — Xbox OneThere.
Yoku’s Island has gotten great reviews and sounds fun, with a lot of backtracking. Sounds like one to get. West of Loathing is an insta-buy if the port is good. And Cultist Simulator sounds amazing…
These will all go on my master list of stuff to get and maybe I’ll get to them in months. Who can keep up…
I also added Overload to the list, which is out today on PC. Basically, Descent 4, I’m hoping. I can’t wait to play it tonight.
Yoku’s Island: I noticed two people on my Xbox friends list were playing it last night. What is that? I thought at first that it said Yoshi’s Island, and I was thinking “how is a Nintendo game on the Xbox?”
I picked up Moonlighter on the PS4 along with Dragon’s Crown Pro with that 20% coupon. Will check it out tonight!
Wallet Threat Level: Medium to High.
Lots of stuff coming out this week that looks interesting. Vampyr, the new one by the developers of Remember Me and Life is Strange. There’s Onrush, the new one by people who did Motorstorm games. There’s Warhammer: 2k: Inquisitor: Martyr: Game: ARPG.
Tuesday, June 5
Aragami: Shadow Edition — Xbox One
Awkward — Xbox One
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle — PS4, PC
Happy Birthdays — Switch
Onrush — PS4, Xbox One
Perils of Baking — PS4
Riddled Corpses EX — PS4, PS Vita
Rollercoaster Legends II: Thor’s Hammer — PS4
Shape of the World — PS4
Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn — PS4, PC
The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset — PS4, Xbox One
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker — PS4, Xbox One, Switch
Vampyr — PS4, Xbox One, PC
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr — PC
Wednesday, June 6
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon — Xbox One
HomeStarVR — PSVR
Riddled Corpses EX — Xbox One
Shape of the World — Xbox One, Switch
Thursday, June 7
A Magical High School Girl — Switch
ACA Neo Geo Riding Hero — Switch
Awkward — PS4
Banner Saga 2 — Switch
Games for Toddlers 2 — Switch
GRIDD: Retroenhanced — Switch
Iro Hero — Switch
Kadobat Wars — Switch
MotoGP 18 — PS4, Xbox One, PC
Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare — Switch
Storm Chaser Tornado Alley — Switch
Friday, June 8
Milanoir — Xbox One
Operation Hardcore — Switch
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido — Switch, 3DS
Also: Perils of Baking? WTF is that? What a lovely name.
You are off by 38k. :(
It’s as far into the future as the Year Two Thousand. In the year two thouuuusaaaaaaand.
This list is disturbing: I thought I was obsessed with games, yet I hardly recognize any name on it! I guess that makes me safe, for now.
Shape of the World looks like an interesting visual/audio experience:
Despite the Playstation labeling there, it’s coming for all platforms. Looks and sounds pretty.
I am still amazed at how many games are heading to Switch.
Still working through last week.
But…what is this???
Rollercoaster Legends II: Thor’s Hammer — PS4
Here’s the Steam page:
Looks like a VR Game.
Amusing trailer.
Hopefully there will be a demo. Last time I tried a roller coaster game on my Rift, it was not a pleasant experience. I’d have preferred a relaxing canoe ride for experiencing Norse mythology. :)
Yoku’s Island is a blast by the way. This would be a great gateway into metroidvanias. It’s fun, colorful, relatively non-violent, has things to find and collect, secret areas, frequent save points, and a very low frustration level. I’ve played about 6 hours and it feels like there’s still quite a bit left.
Thanks! Yeah I am looking forward to that once I work through West of Loathing (which is also great, in a very different way).
Special Board Wargame Wallet Threat Level Alert:
Recent chatter on Social Media by Legion Games has been intercepted. The Board Historical Wargame Threat Center (BHWTC) is concerned, and in an abundance of caution is increasing the threat level from:
Crazy Winston Churchill
To:
Angry “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
Legion Wargames just released Nemesis:
http://www.legionwargames.com/legion_NEM.html#
Shipping now. Fantastic looking Operational scale title by Kim Kanger (of Dien Bien Phu and Tonkin fame). $64 incl shipping in the continental US.