November 29, 2017 - 10:42am
Wizkids has just announced plans to release
Doppleganger in 2018, an adventuring-party card game with a traitor mechanic. Wizkids has been on announcing a pile of new games, and Doppleganger can now get added to that last. Doppleganger is scheduled for a May 2018 release. Players aged 14+ will spend 30 minutes figuring out which of the 4-8 players in the game are traitors.
In Doppleganger players are working together to find three Artifacts of Light. Things are never easy for an adventuring party, and in this case one or more of the players are hidden-traitor dopplegangers, trying to stop the party from finding three artifacts.
Wizkids has described the game as having mechanics similar to
Resistance,
Battlestar Galactica, and
Dark Moon. While adventuring in Doppleganger players are invited to join an adventure and secretly throw cards into the pool. Players will also be required to choose which dice to use in the battles they encounter. Cards in the pool will help the adventuring part succeed (a weapon) or fail (who threw in the poison potion?!).
Content of the game will include:
- 107 Cards (Heroes, Items, Quests, Loyalty, Reference)
- 5 Dice
- 1 Rule book
- 1 Dice bag
- Tokens
- Damage counters
- Exhaustion tokens
