SMOOSH JUICE
Prepare to Recall a Norsewind at SPIEL Essen 25 | BoardGameGeek News
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▪️ In 2022, Norwegian publisher Aporta Games released Revive, an involved game from the design team of Helge Meissner, Anna Wermlund, Kristian Amundsen Østby, and Eilif Svensson, with the latter two being owners of Aporta Games.
In late 2025, that same design team will have a new game on the market: Recall, with this title coming from Alion – by Dr Ø, which is co-owned by Østby and Kjetil Svendsen. Here’s an overview of this 1-4 player game:
• Use a keycard to activate an action box, or
• Recall to produce resources and regain your keycards.
When you use a keycard, you activate the abilities of the keycard itself and the effects of the chosen action box. The chosen combination of keycard and action box will therefore determine what you get to do on your turn: populate the lands, move your followers, explore new regions, and build workshops, vaults, or monuments. During the game, you will improve your tribe by acquiring new keycards, upgrading your action boxes, or collecting ability stones and relics.
An important part of the game is searching dig sites for traces of ancient civilizations. These sites unlock access to the abilities and gadgets of ancient tribes, in addition to providing important scoring opportunities.
Three times during the game, players must choose one of two paths, with the chosen path providing an immediate bonus, as well as boosting one of the endgame scoring categories.
By using the optional digital companion website, players can archive their tribes at the end of their game, thereby making their tribes discoverable as ancient civilizations in other players’ games.
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▪️ Aporta Games will still have a SPIEL Essen 25 release of its own: Norsewind, which seems like an appropriate title given the company, but the game actually comes from the Italian design duo of Stefania Niccolini and Marco Canetta.
Norsewind is also a game for 1-4 players:
Norsewind is a tableau-building game. Each turn, you pick a card and add it to your growing kingdom, that is, your tableau. Place it cleverly to earn rewards. Gather helpful followers and upgrade your castles because the Vikings are coming, and they are not here to make friends! At the end of the game, you score each row in your tableau but only if your defense is stronger than the power of the Viking attack.