Ethan has disappeared and his friends have no idea where to find him
The only clues are his diary and a strange compass that always points in the same direction
In the diary, Ethan talk about a strange monster named Billygoat that steals memories
Ethan writes that if he were to disappear, perhaps it is because he was captured by this monster
The four friends start a crazy adventure
guided by the strange compass and helped by strange beings named FACELESS
Hello everyone,. My name is Gaia. Welcome on the Youtube channel Geek Robot d'Acciaio!
Today we talk about a new board game: The Faceless!
created by Alter Ego Games and actually on Kickstarter where it's having a great success
has received excellent impressions in the fairs where it was presented: Essen and Modena Play
The Faceless is an horror board game!!!
It's a cooperative board game where the players go into Duskworld
where a monster named Billygoat steals children memories
The children without their memories turn into faceless creatures
In this board game we win or lose al together
We win if we recover all the Ethan's memories
But we can lose too
and we can lose in a lot of ways
Billygoat captures us
We crash into an obstacle and we do not have a memory to play
Or if the deck of cards ends
Now I will show you how to play this disturbing game
This is a prototype. The final board game will have incredible miniatures and graphic
but I can use it the same to explain the rules
The real new ludic element is the magnetic field
But what is a magnetic field?!?
Alberto Angela a famous italian scientific communicator explain us the magnetic field
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In this board game the players will play like four children
every child has is unique ability
Every turn, the player will be able to perform one action choice between these four
The actions are:
One. Play a card from our hand
Two. Exchange a card with another player
Three. Refill our hand with new cards
Four. Pass
But now we will see these actions in detail
This is the first card we will be able to play: the compass card.
With it we can move a number of spaces on the board in every direction
These are the faceless cards
The faceless are children almost without memories. Billygoat stole them. They will help us versus him.
Now are just bottle caps but into the final game they will be amazing miniatures
With these cards we will move the faceless miniature (of the same card color) and rearrange the magnetic field
For example with the faceless blue card, we can move it and turn it to move the compass needle
when we are sure about the compass needle position
we make a number of steps to the north equal to number on the card (2 in this case)
before to do the next steps you have to wait for the compass needle to stop
in this case we success to collect a memory!!!!
You are one step closer to victory when you collect a memory
You can take it from the board and you will choose when to activate it during the game
Just a quick look to a couple of memory effects
This little one for example will let you move the blue faceless
This other will let you move an obstacle on the board (following the game rules of course)
The last card that we will find is The Billygoat card
with it we move one step the Billygoat miniature on the board, turn it ad we desire and...
.....finally move the compass to the north for a number of steps as shown on the card (2 steps in this case)
The card exchange is the second action type and with it we can change one of our card with another one from another player hand
The third action type we can choose is to refill our hand with new cards
and where we can find new cards?
We can take them from the events cards place
But how we can put cards into the event cards place?
The players will end their own turn drawing an event card
The events will be trouble for the players
If we draw an event card compass
the compass will move to the north for so many steps as many cards are in this card pile
in this case only one step
When we draw a Billygoat event card
Billygoat himself move closer to the compass for so many steps as many cards are in this card pile
Pay attention to follow always the shorter track
When we draw a blue faceless event card
We add a new card in the event cards place for every two cards in this event card pile but without activating the effect
When we draw a green facelees event card
Billygoat steal a card to a player for every two cards in this event card pile
When we draw a yellow faceless event card
We will turn 180° a faceless for every two cards in this event card pile
Finally if you want you can simply pass during your turn
But remember that you will always end your turn drawing an evet card
I TOTALLY like this board game
My favorite part of the game was the magnetic field use
I am more a competitive player but I really liked this cooperative board game too
The story is really particular and interesting
I recomend you to run on Kickstarter to check the project page
You can find the link into the description below too
and if a child has managed to explain this board game to you
you will certainly be able to play with it!!!!
