Gone Cardboard: Arctic Scavengers and Sengoku, Coming from Driftwood Games

Driftwood Games is a new game publisher with two titles in the queue for the coming months, both from designer/publisher Robert K. Gabhart. Arctic Scavengers, due out in May 2009, is for 3-5 players and the rules (available online) make the game sound like a new take on Dominion.

Each player starts with a deck containing four tribe members, three scavengers, one brawler, one spear and one shovel. On a turn, each player draws five cards, then uses some number of cards to gather resources, hunt for food, look for tools, and hire others before committing the remaining cards in hand to a skirmish. The shovel lets you dig in the junkyard for new cards such as a net, while the food from hunts will let you hire people like a scout, who will in later turns let you find more things, that is, draw more cards from your deck. Many types of mercenaries are available. The player with the largest attack value at the end of a round, based on the tribe members who are attacking as well as the tools they possess, wins a contested resources (CR) card, and the player who has the largest tribe when the last CR card is claimed wins the game.

Fewer details are available for Driftwood’s second game, Sengoku, which is due out Q3 2009, so a publisher description will have to do: “Compete against up to three other players as a daiymo (Japanese for ‘leader’) in 16th century Japan during the Sengoku Period (Japanese for ‘Warring States’). Build a robust economy, fortify your castle, battle for control of other fiefdoms, and decorate your palace to achieve victory and be declared Emporer over all of Japan.”

Arctic Scavengers plays in 45-60 minutes and sells for $24, while Sengoku plays in 60-90 minutes with 1-4 players and retails for $23. These games have been added to Gone Cardboard.

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