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Grimslingers
15m - 90m
1 - 5 Players
Ages 14+
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In a land beyond God’s reckonin’ is a place called the Forgotten West — a cursed land of sorts in the American frontier, housing the damned, the mysterious, the unfortunate. You ended up there, God knows why, and you sure ain’t leavin’ anytime soon.
The Iron Witch, a downright mysterious bein’, has turned you into a Grimslinger, a powerful witch imbued with metal, machine, and fancy elemental powers. Now yer maker’s requirin’ all his newly sired to duel each other so that he can make y’all into witches proper for his own purposes.
Grimslingers is a strategic, sci-fi fantasy western themed card game that features two different modes of play: versus and co-op. In versus mode, 2-6 players go head-to-head in teams or a free-for-all using a wide selection of spells, items and abilities.
In co-op mode, 1-4 players work together through a narrative campaign composed of four 60-90 minute play sessions, battling strange creatures, overcoming intense challenges, collecting loot, gaining levels, and exploring a truly unique wild west.
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players |
| Play Time | 15m – 90m |
| Designer | Stephen Gibson |
| Mechanics | Cooperative Play, Dice Rolling, Partnerships, Point to Point Movement, Press your Luck, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Player Powers |
| Theme | American West, Card Game, Humor, Science Fiction, Fantasy |
| Publisher | Greenbrier Games |
Chiselphane
Love everything about this. Variable complexity, variable style (vs or coop), great setting and fantastic art. Some good humor in it too. Expansions please!
ChirpyBird
I cannot get over how good this game is. Everything is well thought out, and the instructions booklet is the best I've read through, describing everything you need to know. The art is incredible. It's easy to understand, hilarious at times, and fun as hell. I can't wait for more from Stephen Gibson!
attackofmilk
I'm reading the Grimslingers: Advanced Duels rules for a PnP demo before buying the game. Grimslingers seems to do a lot of things I'm interested in (rock-paper-scissors, small pre-game draft, co-op campaign). However, in my research of the game, there's some serious usability problems: 1) The cards aren't designed to show their information when fanned out in-hand. Exceed and Dragon Punch both show card information in the top left corner. In CCGs, players look at their hand by pulling their hands apart to look at the effect text on each individual card. In Grimslingers, this is the only way to view any information on the spell cards. The card edges look nearly identical when fanned out in-hand. 1A) Why is attack speed a tiny number on the bottom of the card? Attack speed is really important. 2) Why wasn't the "faceoff" text removed from Anima cards in the 3rd edition? I get that 1st edition buyers shouldn't have to repurchase updated cards to play with the 3rd edition rules, but the third edition should've removed that text to clean up the card. A simple note to first edition owners in the third edition rulebook would've sufficed. 3) Typos! The Archetype ability name "Ressurect" was never fixed, not even in third edition. The section for omitting the "face-off" ability in the Anima section of the Core 3rd edition rules also is missing the word "face-off" completely. 4) Why do I have to look at both sides of the Anima card to find all three Anima abilities? I get that you turn the Anima card over to track your usage of the Surge ability, but I'm going to be holding that card in the air looking at both sides of it when it SHOULD stay on the table to track my EP. (I was planning on using poker chips to track HP and EP in the print-and-play demo, and I would basically need to do that in the full game as well because of this design issue.) I haven't actually played my PnP demo yet, but these design issues are firmly dealbreakers for me. Which is sad, because I'm really into rock-paper-scissors games. I was hoping that Grimslingers: Advanced Duels could be a step up from Dragon Punch without bringing the full complexity of Exceed (my favorite game), but these usability problems killed it for me.