Every group needs a game you can teach in ninety seconds to someone whose entire tabletop experience is Uno at Christmas. Pac-Man: Craze Maze is aiming squarely at that job, and ICv2 now reports it reaching retail in September.
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Start organising for freeAnnounced by No Loading Games and officially licensed with Bandai Namco, Craze Maze is a card game that flips the arcade original around. Instead of running a maze, you build one. Each turn you draw, reveal and place a single tile, filling your maze with Pac-Dots, fruit, power pellets and carefully positioned ghosts to create the highest-scoring path you can. It plays two to five in 15 to 25 minutes.
UK readers get a useful detail here: Zatu Games is No Loading Games' UK partner, so that is where copies are most likely to land first. No Loading Games lined up the game's first public outing for Zatu's stand at UK Games Expo in May, playable and on sale. If you were at the NEC in May, you may well have seen it already. A wider release follows in English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and more.
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Set up your group for freePac-Man launched in 1980, which makes it 46 this year and older than most of the people who will play this. That crossover appeal is the whole point. This is a game your nephew and your dad can both be talked into, and it is short enough that neither of them will get bored.
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Sources: No Loading Games | ICv2
