Our very first play?

Not planned. Our very first stop for Day 1 wa the Chessex booth (for their special commemorative SPIEL26 dice) which happens to be in Hall 2 alongside Paper Fort. Seeing they have CULT OF THE LAMB on demo, Rachel asked to sit thru a quick session.

This is one game she has come to know thru its video game counterpart – even tho she doesn’t play any video games. I suppose the dungeon crawling and worker placement aspects caught enough of her attention for her to want to check out the board game version – which just ended its Kickstarter campaign a couple of months ago.

If you are wondering “Hey, where have I heard of this Paper Fort Games before?” then it’s likely from their recent KS release TERRARIA.

Golden Poop

Or maybe Rachel was attracted by their GOLDEN POOP campaign – take a wefie with the Golden Poop and stand a chance to win a copy of the Deluxe Edition. They were running it in SPIEL 2026 to buzz the game, haha!

The game is only slated for delivery in Dec 2027, so what we saw at SPIEL was their prototype therefore final game components may differ from those in this post.

I followed the rules briefing, and while it does seem there are more gameplay on offer, the demo focused on the dungeon battles; how it works, how to resolve the dice roll etc. And ended with the players all converging to fight the big bad.

While I understand why the demo focuses on this part of the game; it might have undersold the worker placement aspect which I suspect could be a key selling point esp to Euro gamers.

Their KS campaign ended with a strong 14,000 backers and over GBP2.6m pledged. Impressive.

Are you tracking this campaign? Or have you already placed a pledge for one of their KS editions? They may still accepting late pledges if you miss this.

Well, at least Rachel got off to a quick start and checked off one of her to-dos for this SPIEL. She certainly enjoyed the demo, brief as it was – but this is one of erm 2,000+ games. A good start, a good start.

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