TorresTabletop Tuesdays: Abstract Three Dimensional Strategy | Submitted by costik on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 01:02. |
Torres, winner of the 2000 Spiel des Jahres award, is essentially a game of competitive collaboration in tower-building. Played on an eight-by-eight grid, players place plastic "tower blocks", building both outward and upward.
Caveman Craig is a sort of sidescrolling RTS with the warfare stripped out. You control Craig; he teaches skills to three flavors of cavemen (gatherers, food processors, and hunters), then releases them to perform their tasks. Hunters kill dinosaurs, gatherers drag them back to the cave and harvest berries, food processors turn dino corpses and berries into points you use to buy more cavemen. Other than the "training your peons" bit, straight out of the RTS playbook.
