Description
There’s always something happening in the city that never sleeps. Maybe it’s the lights, maybe it’s the energy, or maybe it’s the giant monsters trying to demolish the place!
King of New York is a standalone game from designer Richard Garfield that keeps the core ideas of King of Tokyo while introducing new ways to play. As in KoT, your goal is to be the first monster to collect 20 victory points (VPs) or to be the last monster standing. On your turn, you roll six dice up to three times, then carry out the actions on those dice. Claws cause damage to other monsters, hearts heal damage to yourself, and energy is stored up so that you can purchase power cards that provide unique effects not available to anyone else.
In King of New York each monster occupies a district in the city and everyone is trying to shine in Manhattan. When you attack, you can displace a monster in another district, whether to escape military forces or to find new smashing opportunities. Yes, smashing because you can destroy buildings and get bonuses for doing so, but the more destruction you cause, the more intense the military response.
Katieml –
This is a two credit game however with two teenagers we found it took us a couple of games each lasting an hour or so to pick up. We really enjoyed it, it was different each time and we felt we didnt really need to have played King of Toyko before hand though I guess it may have helped. We liked the art work