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One of the heroes in your party has been taken captive in a dungeon far beyond the edge of the wild. Now, you’ll have to travel down the forgotten road and traverse dangerous and unforgiving territory to get them back.
The Forgotten Road is a hand-management game in which you need to play your action cards and use your special abilities as efficiently as possible to take out monsters, pass skill checks, move to new locations, and defeat bosses of ever-increasing difficulty. The game ends when either you run out of action cards or health and lose — or you defeat the final boss at the end of the road/dungeon deck and win.
About The Last Stronghold:
The forces of darkness have pushed all the way south, destroying everything in their path. The city of Lux is all that stands in their way from completely overtaking the realm. A small group of heroes must work together to fend off the evil army long enough to take out its leader.
The Last Stronghold is a dice-driven siege game in which you must fend off monsters in the areas surrounding Lux and prevent them from overtaking the city. You use special abilities and magical artifacts to manipulate the dice and monsters, with the goal of eventually taking out the final boss…should you last long enough. On your turn, you add threats to the board, decide which threats you want to deal with, move to that location, roll dice and use hero abilities to get rid of those threats, and repeat until you either defeat the final boss OR all heroes are incapacitated OR the main city you’re protecting takes too much damage.
spike8888
Based on my initial plays, it's not my favorite small box game. For one thing, the game has too much going on for it to be played in one hand as intended; it's got way more rules than, for example, Palm Island or even Maiden's Quest. It's much more manageable on the table, holding the main deck in hand (since you are constantly moving cards from/into that one). The method of taking damage/exhausting abilities makes it the most difficult to play in hand, as you have to keep your hero at a certain level and then also remember which abilities you have triggered with strength cards (can only be done once per ability) or exhausted. This is also remedied by playing it on the table and using counters to cover your heroes' used abilities. Lastly, certain monster combinations (dependent on luck of shuffle) can create large loops of AI abilities that trigger before you even have a chance to react. This is another hit against playing it one hand, if those abilities mean you have to keep moving cards around, but it also takes away from the fun of the game by making it feel like you have no control over it. Gonna put this one away for now and try it again at a later date.
CaseyMoeller
There’s some really neat ways the game is played so you can theoretically play it in your hands. Practically you’re going to play this on a table. There’s character abilities that only seem useful for the ones that are free to activate. Feels like you can either pick a range hero or a melee hero and their abilities aren’t that big of a deal. Sometimes the deck can stack against you and it’s impossible to win. Other times it’s stacked for you and you just walk through. There doesn’t feel like much choice on a turn or much of a way to influence the game.
Grislan
Excellent idea to be able to play a game in your hands without any table. The way monster waves are created is also pure genius. Nice and simple gameplay too. Only, it's darn difficult to hold cards in several different orientations and not just drop them all around the floor. My left wrist aches of squeezing.