Plenty of games ask you to build a temple. For the Gods! makes you actually stack one. In this area-control game from Mighty Boards, you pile up three-dimensional towers across the Greek islands, and the taller your temple, the better. It is heading to UK shelves through a new distribution deal, with hands-on demos at UK Games Expo (29 to 31 May).
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Set up your group for freeDesigned by David Thompson, best known for Undaunted and War Chest, with his regular collaborators Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert, For the Gods! is a two to four player game that runs about 45 minutes. It blends point-to-point movement around the archipelago, area control over the islands, and bag-driven hand management. Each turn you take stones and sail out to found or strengthen temples, stacking towers from different stone types. Because height is read at a glance, you can always see who is winning a region, which keeps the tension high. Dedicate a tower to the gods and you unlock special powers, and at the end each region scores by how tall your temples stand. Katarzyna Bekus and Max Kosek supply the ancient-Greek artwork.
The timing is the UK-friendly part. For the Gods! reaches British shelves through Mighty Boards' new exclusive distribution deal with Zatu, the same arrangement bringing the rest of its catalogue to shops here. You can get hands-on at the Expo, where Mighty Boards is demoing on stands 3-634 and 2-472. It is a striking game with real table presence, and one that is about to get a lot easier to buy in the UK.
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