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Control Echoes of Time, Enlarge Terra Mystica, and Travel from an Ark to Sanctuary | BoardGameGeek News
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▪️ The monthly Feuerland Spiele newsletter has been teasing a new release from Ark Nova‘s Mathias Wigge, and now it’s revealed the title and cover of this SPIEL Essen 25 release — Artengarten, which in the English-language edition from Capstone Games will be titled Sanctuary.
Here’s an overview of this 1-5 player game:
Each player has a set of four action cards to manage their gameplay, and the power of an action is determined by the slot the card currently occupies. One of those cards will let you play projects, and the other three cards will let you play animals of a specific habitat: forest, rock, or water.
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Sanctuary is based on its predecessor Ark Nova, but modifies and simplifies many of the mechanisms of that game in an elegant and surprising manner. Your goal to find the best way to puzzle together your animals, buildings, and projects on your zoo map is an ongoing pleasure!
▪️ In February 2021, Feuerland Spiele invited Terra Mystica fans to submit factions for possible inclusion in a future release, and in late 2025 that release will become a reality as Terra Mystica: Fan Factions, with twenty(!) new factions, including ones by Isaac Childres and Jamey Stegmaier.
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If you don’t want to wait, head to Board Game Arena where you can play these fan factions now. Rules for all twenty fan factions are available on BGA.
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▪️ Italian publisher Cranio Creations has revealed a major SPIEL Essen 25 release of its own: Echoes of Time, a 2-4 player game from Simone Luciani and Roberto Pellei:
An ancient and powerful energy flows through these places, concentrating in hidden, inexhaustible sources. Controlling this power allows one to bend to their will life’s most important aspect: time, and the rhythms it imprints on the environment and every being.
In Echoes of Time, you attempt to create the best-equipped fellowship of characters from different factions to conquer the sources of power. Try to control and modify the flow of time to outshine your opponents. The game includes more than one hundred cards with unique effects that you will use to build a new deck each game, and a “sliding tile” system guides you in managing the time needed for your cards to become usable, while simultaneously controlling the activation rhythm of their effects.
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▪️ For a different type of SPIEL Essen 25 release, we can turn to a pair of titles from designers Magnus Karlsson and Erik Andersson Sundén and Chilean publisher Fractal Juegos — Where is That?: Europe and Where is That?: South America.
Each game features two modes: In “Cartographer’s Corner”, you use your geographical knowledge to build a map in front of you round by round, and in “Continental Shake Up”, players collectively build a map in the center of the table, with correctly placed cards scoring points and riskier cards scoring the most.