We had a fun Sunday afternoon of gaming. We started with Jackson Tegu’s Kaleidoscope, and then ended with a card game, One Night: Ultimate Werewolf.
We have played Kaleidoscope before, and it is great fun. It’s a hack of Microscope, but instead of building the history of a world, you are a group of people who have just watched a weird foreign film, and you are recounting memorable scenes. The game rules have a terrific sense of humor, and since you read most of it aloud as you play, they do a great job of getting you in the right head space for the game. The outcomes tend to be surreal and hilarious, and Sunday was no exception.
One Night: Ultimate Werewolf was a big surprise for me. People have been making Werewolf games for years, and I’ve always kind of written them off, but One Night is pretty special. First of all, it is playable with a small number, which is a big change from traditional Werewolf, which often requires ten or more people. Second, it has a companion app that reads out the instructions, eliminating the need for a “host” player. The game also introduces a number of new roles to the game, and you can mix and match them to change up play. Very fun, and easy to get to the table. We played about ten games in the span of two hours.
Thanks to Steve Mains Ferrell Riley and Kyle McCauley for coming out.
