Dice Tower News

Publisher Oink Games debuted Quickity Pickity at Essen Spiel 2022. Oink is known for producing colorful smallbox games with an endearing visual appeal. Quickity Pickity appears to be right in their wheelhouse; Two to five players compete to pick the best sets of fruit from an array of scrambled tiles that start facedown. In real-time, using only one hand, players will begin flipping tiles over and grabbing ones they want into their personal supply. Each tile depicts a piece of fruit with a particular shape, color, and face (smiling or frowning). Players will score...

In 2018, the former BBG #1 game Tigris & Euphrates received a sequel game from designer, Reiner Knizia , called Yellow & Yangtze . This took the game set in ancient Mesopotamia and relocated it to ancient China. It also replaced the square grid board with a hex board, but much of the gameplay remained the same. You were still competing with civilizations, establishing and balancing their political, economic, and religious power across the board.

Yellow & Yangtze, previously from Holy Grail Games , is currently out of print, however Polish publisher...

Arcane Wonders has announced the next game in the Dice Tower Essentials line: Dice Manor . It is designed by Garrett Herdter with art from Damien Mammoliti .

In Dice Manor, players are developers, designing lavish dream homes with plenty of huge rooms and meandering hallways. Players will roll their dice, then use these dice to bid on rooms to add to their house and to take other actions. You will then place the rooms connected to the other rooms of your house. Even though the rooms are...

Publisher WizKids is publishing the Marvel: Age of Heroes strategy game, where 2-4 players each command a duo of X-men to defeat villains and complete objectives. The team collects resources and power-ups before going on dangerous missions. The game plays in roughly 60-90 minutes, is suited to those aged 14+, and is designed by Rodney Thompson (a co-designer of Lords of Waterdeep ).

Teams can include heroes like Wolverine & Jubilee, Jean Grey & Cyclops, Forge & Storm, and more. These heroes are represented by full-color acrylic standees, cards, and...