Creepshow: The Suspense-Building Game (2024)
In this competitive story-building game, players play as "Creeps" and build deliciously horrible stories to send bad people to their well-deserved demises.The game is played with story cards and suspense cards. Story cards work together to form a chain that tells a story for each villain in three acts. Suspense cards are the fuel that makes the story work!
On your turn, you will have the choice to either Creep or Show!
When you "Creep," you may first discard any number of Story cards in your hand you no longer want and then draw back up to 7. Then you must play a Suspense card (valued -2,1,2,or 3) face-down to any villain's stack so other players won't know what you played.
When you "Show," you may play a story card from your hand to a villain's story chain. These will have various effects from earning points, looking at suspense already there, and adding suspense cards of your own.
Occasionally, these story cards will have a branching path on them, where you can choose both how the story goes and make a guess at how much suspense this villain has accumulated. If the suspense is equal to or more than your choice, you'll earn points and adjust the suspense stack in some way before the next turn.
When a villain is in act 3 of their story, you could instead use the "Show" action to play an available ending card to potentially score big points if the story has enough suspense in it! When this happens, the player who has the most suspense on it will also score that villain card and earn bonus points!
HOWEVER, if you play an ending and there is not enough suspense in the story, the villain escapes. Other devious players with suspense on that villain will score a few points and no one will score the villain card! Hopefully, they at least learned their lesson!
When you reach the bottom of the villain deck, you'll face a major villain which will be worth more points than the normal villain and far more deserving of the vile twists and turns you have in store for them!
BUT BE WARNED! If a major villain escapes, the player who attempted to end their story cannot win the game!
The game ends when the major villain's story does.
No matter your strategy, use your suspense cards wisely and try not to let any of the villains escape the fates they've worked so hard to earn...
Kim-Joy's Magic Bakery (2021)
Your favorite British Baker, Kim-Joy, has moved to a magical forest and opened up a small bakery. Now she needs your help to keep customers happy. From sly foxes to needy cats, gossipy ducks to clumsy dinosaurs, you’re about to have your hands full keeping this bakery running smoothly!
Kim-Joy’s Magic Bakery is a light cooperative card game for 2 to 5 players that tells an adorable story over 10 unique scenarios. The goal of the game is to bake as many treats as you can for your customers before the day ends and the customers leave.
You and your friends will have a limited number of actions to put together specific sets of ingredients and layers in order to bake increasingly complex treats for your customers. Each scenario adds a new challenge to the game that will force you to adapt and change your strategies.
Every time you play, you can work your way through the Scenarios to experience the story, or you can play in freeplay mode to mix and match scenarios for the ultimate co-op baking challenge!
Court of the Dead: Dark Harvest (2020)
Set in Sideshow's original dark-fantasy world, Court of the Dead: Dark Harvest, is a strategic bidding game for 3-6 players, in which each player is vying for power in the Court of the Dead and struggling to save as many souls as possible from annihilation in the Celestial War.
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Each game round in Court of the Dead: Dark Harvest has an income phase and two main phases of gameplay:
Income, in which players receive souls and influence to spend.
The Court phase, in which players will attempt to win the favor of powerful members of the court to aid their cause,
The Harvest phase, in which players will attempt to satisfy the demands of the Celestials while saving as many doomed souls as they can.
At the end of the game, the player who is able to shepherd the most souls to safety, behind their player screen, will win the game.
Pitchstorm (2018)
Pitchstorm is a party card game that puts players in the position of unprepared writers pitching movie ideas to the world's worst executives.
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During each round, one player acts as the executive, and everyone else attempts to pitch them movie ideas based on a character card and a plot card. At some point during each pitch, though, the executive may add a note card to the pitch and force the writer to add some really terrible new elements to their movie.
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At the end of the pitches, the executive chooses which movie they liked the best, with that person scoring a point, then the game continues from there.
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In groups of 6-12, players split into teams of two and must work with a partner to pitch their movie. This also means that there are two executives, and each of them gets to play a note card onto the pitch, leading to some pretty ridiculous movies.
Pitchstorm Expansions (2018-2019)
Add new genres and awards to your movie pitches in six unique expansion packs for Pitchstorm:
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PITCHSTORM Awards Season: A Very Prestigious Expansion
PITCHSTORM Creature Feature: A Horror Movie Expansion
PITCHSTORM Date Night: A Romantic Comedy Expansion
PITCHSTORM Superhero: Earth's Mightiest Expansion
PITCHSTORM Animation: A Timeless Expansion
PITCHSTORM NC-17 Deck: An XXX Expansion