![]() When played in real life, it requires one player to remain neutral and that player divides the roles between fake artist and the other players. Though I should say that playing a game like A Fake Artist Goes to New York online is a much more streamlined experience than the actual physical board game. While I trust my friends to actually do that, it does feel like not every game has made that perfect transition to a digital board game. Likewise, A Fake Artist actually asks local players to close their eyes one at a time, before deciding who will be the fake artist. Startups, for example, can only be played online or with your own Switch screen, due to the fact that each player needs to draw a hand that’s secret from the others. See, certain games aren’t compatible with local play due to their nature and mechanics. Though in my experience online play has definitely been the way to go. Now that’s quite a bit of game for your money, and what’s great about Let’s Play Oink Games is that all the games support both local and online play. Face has each player arranging pieces of a face in order to portray a specific facial expression and the other players have to guess what the corresponding card is. Thanks to a clever rule, the fake artist still has the chance to win when there’s a tie, by guessing what the actual prompt was. It becomes a fun game where all the players are second-guessing their friends as to who could be the fake artist. The twist is that one of the players does not know the prompt and has to pretend to know what they’re drawing. ![]() In A Fake Artist, each player has to draw the same prompt with a single stroke of their brush. Face both feel very similar to games you could find in a Jackbox Party Pack. Thankfully there’s also a few creative titles in here. This is much more akin to a gambling game, where the tension is between picking the right moment to return or drowning because another player went back after collecting only a single piece of treasure. Players dive to the bottom of the ocean and have to spend oxygen to get themselves and their collected loot back into the submarine. Deep Sea Adventure works on a similar premise to Moon Adventure but is more competitive. That’s not to say that the remaining games aren’t fun on their own. There’s also a ton of character icons to choose from for your profile, and overall the game adds to the charm by allowing you to communicate with other players through emoji. Each game is accompanied by its own musical theme and design, such as Deep Sea Adventure’s aquatic ambient soundscape and the building pressure in Moon Adventure. Even in the selection-menu all the games are displayed like their boxes, with the accurate description and summary on the back of the box. While the collection isn’t as polished as Nintendo’s own 51 Clubhouse Games, I did really like the combination of the visual presentation and physicality of the pieces. Right off the bat, I immediately noticed the clean presentation. Each one is an entire unique game with its own set of rules and mechanics. These titles are: A Fake Artist Goes to New York, Deep Sea Adventure, Moon Adventure, Startups, and Mr. At the time of this review, there are five playable titles in the game with more to follow over time. Let’s first quickly go over what is in this collection. Let’s Play Oink Games may just be even better than playing the actual board games themselves. Therefore, when they announced a digital collection of a selection of their titles with free future updates adding more games to the mix, I was immediately interested. ![]() While they aren’t necessarily expensive, their printing tends to be limited since the games are designed in Japan. ![]() ![]() Their titles are not only well designed but come packaged in these lovely small boxes that contain all the components. Oink is a very special board game company that specializes in smaller, group-focused board games. However, that did not stop me from backing board games on Kickstarter as well as learning about Oink Games. Unfortunately, a pandemic is not the best time to start with collecting physical board games to play with multiple people. Over the last two years, I’ve been going on a bit of a rampage collecting all sorts of board games: from long two-player epics like Star Wars: Rebellion to casual fun card games like Claim. What were all the new or old hobbies you decided to take up during the COVID-19 pandemic? Was knitting finally back in action? Did you finish that backlog of games like you always wanted? Or did you decide to pursue further education or learn a new skill? Whatever you’re imagining, I can tell you that you’ve probably spent most of that time more wisely than I have, because I fell into the deep dark void that is board game collecting. ![]()
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