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The Op is bringing some horror to the escape room game genre, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Stanley Kubrik classic, The Shining. In The Shining: Escape from Overlook Hotel, players take on the roles of Wendy and Danny Torrance trying to escape from the clutches of the evil hotel, while avoiding the axe-wielding Jack Torrance. The game is designed by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim and scheduled to release this fall.

This is the second entry in The Op's Coded Chronicles line of escape rooms in a box, that debuted with ...

Back in December 2019, before the dark times, Dice Tower News reported on the new team based sequel to Hobby World ’s popular party game SpyFall . Much like it’s ancestor, SpyCon by designer Alexandr Ushan had players in a strange situation, pretending they know exactly what is going on, but asking questions to gain more knowledge. If the questions are too specific, it is obvious who is the spy. If they are too general, no information is gained. However, this time each team has a secret list of keywords,...

“When an unknown force threatens to render their home uninhabitable, the Seeders must build arks — giant colony ships — to ensure their survival.”

WizKids has announced the English release of Seeders from Sereis: Exodus (2017), a tableau building card game by designer Serge Macasdar and Sweet Games . Seeders from Sereis is “a trans-media science-fiction universe that's been created over five years by Serge Macasdar and Charbel Fourel and which contains post-humans, space opera, extensive journeys on space arks, lost...

“CHANNEL YOUR INNER LAZY EGG IN THIS OVER-EASY TRICK-TAKING GAME!”

Renegade Game Studios has just announced the adorably quirky trick taking game Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game by veteran designers Steve Ellis and Tyler Tinsley , the team behind The Tea Dragon Society Card Game and Dicey Goblins . In Gudetama, 2-7 players enjoy a fairly standard trick taking game with cards valued from 1-14. The goal however, is to not take the last trick, because whoever takes the final...