I got to play a couple of the games in this KS collection with the designer, Meguey Baker, at Metatopia yesterday.

I got to play a couple of the games in this KS collection with the designer, Meguey Baker, at Metatopia yesterday.

I got to play a couple of the games in this KS collection with the designer, Meguey Baker, at Metatopia yesterday. They were really fun! The first one we played was a Halloween-themed game in which the players are a group of people (possibly children?) traveling to a cemetery at night to speak with their Beloved Dead. It was lovely and spooky, with a really nice ambiguity to the proceedings that made it all feel very mysterious. The second game was called Hounds of the Harvest. That one had each player taking on the role of a dog helping his people with, well, the harvest. It was really neat, and felt like a meditation on work and seasonality. The whole collection of eight games, in fact, are keyed to the seasons (solstices and all that), and in the two games I played, the mechanics did a great job of reinforcing that feeling. It seems like each game would make a great time-filler, and the text gives them the feel of a poem or a folk tale. If that sounds appealing, you should definitely check it out! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1179631078/playing-natures-year