About: Norsefolk is a deckbuilding wargame for 2-4 gamers the place every participant controls their very own clan with its distinctive playing cards in a race to succeed in 21 glory (factors) earlier than anybody else. The sport takes place on a hex map representing a small half within the North the place every clan needs to show their price to the Gods and be admitted into Valhalla prematurely.

Everything the gamers do are carried out by motion and response playing cards and require presence of some type on the map, which is within the type of Buildings, Shamans and Warriors. Each spherical all gamers select 1-2 motion playing cards and reveal their decisions concurrently. After that they go in spherical order in keeping with the acknowledged initiative on the chosen playing cards and play out their actions. The gamers even have the chance to react to what’s occurring by enjoying reactions playing cards immediately from hand if a sure standards has been met (e.g. a constructing obtained destroyed). Lastly, every participant has distinctive passive skills which additional specialises how their explicit clan performs out.

In Norsefolk the motion begins just about from the primary spherical the place everyone seems to be at one another’s throats. The gamers must increase their borders, recruit extra troops and by drive take management of the area whereas additionally combating over international quests to achieve extra glory. Throughout the sport the gamers will acquire extra actions and reactions so as to add to their present deck, additional growing their capabilities.

Game Development Inspiration: I’ve all the time had a robust curiosity in Norse mythology and have needed to create a sport with that theme. I’m additionally a fan of space management video games, deckbuilding video games and have a robust distaste to randomness in video games (cube rolling in wargames is my kryptonite), so I needed to create a sport which might mix these totally different components with as little randomness as attainable.

Game Info-

• Playtesting Times: Available throughout all evenings

• Type: Deckbuilding wargame

• Theme: Viking / Fantasy

• Number of Players: 2-4

• Age: 13+

• Time To Play: half-hour per participant