Strategy games are a blast. I played them all the time. I review them all the time. They excite with tension and conflict. And they can easily be played with smaller player counts. Good morning, Scythe. Have a nice evening, Brass: Birmingham. Enjoy your entire-day-filled-with-pizza-and-backaches, Twilight Imperium.
Social deduction games are the bread and butter of bigger game nights. And they are also easy to introduce to players unfamiliar with many tabletop games. Break out the One Night Ultimate Werewolf, carve up some friendships with Resistance, stop the fascists in Secret Hitler, and otherwise scare off any mild-mannered person who happened upon your game night.
But now, IV Games has introduced Veiled Fate on Kickstarter, with a game they’re describing as strategic deduction, and I absolutely want to be done with the pandemic.
This is the kind of game that I would love to introduce to friends and families. It’s got the social deduction components of other party games, but (in my humble opinion) it’s more elegant and immediately more exciting to veteran gamers. For tabletop players who enjoy strategy games, there can be too much chaos, not enough consistency, and an uncomfortable amount of verbal tension in social deduction games.
This is a beautiful hybrid with stunning component quality and even more electrifying gameplay.
Just check out this three-player gameplay. It’s an hour-long video, but you’ll pass the time comfortably as you watch these friends and designers bluff, bluster, and batter their way through the game.
Everyone wants the pandemic to be over.
But tabletop gamers are experiencing a bitter loss from not being able to gather with friends and families for nights of meeples and adult beverages.
Thankfully, I can now look forward to the return of those sessions with a game like Veiled Fate. It’s already got $500,000 on Kickstarter and is gaining more backers with the full week remaining on the campaign.
Check out the link above to see more info on the game. And if you’re looking for me to tell you more about it upon release, you’ll have to wait awhile. Because I might be lost in trying to convince the other players that I’m not who they say I am.
