Mumbo Jumbo
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My name is Oli, also known as Mumbo Jumbo and I make videos on the popular voxel based game...
Shuffle Grand Prix
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Shuffle Grand Prix is a Racing Card Game where fellow drivers battle in a fast-paced, strategic...
Disney Shadowed Kingdom
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In the two-player co-operative card game Disney Shadowed Kingdom, you enlist the help of your...
Friday - by Friedemann Friese
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You are helping Robinson, who came ashore on your island, fight against many hazards. At the...
Top Drives
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Think you know your cars? It’s time to put your knowledge to the test in Top Drives - the only...
Cooking Customers
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Play cards, roll dice and don't get fired! In Cooking Customers you will need to hire cooks to...
On the Rocks
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Welcome to "On The Rocks" cocktail lounge, where the city's best mixologists expertly prepare...
RPGMP3 (211 KP) rated Barker's Row in Tabletop Games
May 25, 2018
Without them, the game is a straightforward card drafting and hand management affair where luck can have a strong effect on who wins in the end. If you have good Attraction cards with useful powers then you can make multiple calls and pull way ahead of everyone else. This is, however, true for a good number of games that involves an element of luck.
I really enjoyed playing this game because of the theme and because some of the cards are fun. The art is excellent and the pieces are good quality. The "Rube" meeples all have different people on them so you can fill your grandstand with all kinds of strange people coming to see your shows.
Purple Phoenix Games (2266 KP) rated Pretense in Tabletop Games
Sep 24, 2019
This is a Button Shy game so you know it will be compact and fit into one of those nylon wallet things. Mine, however, was Kickstarted and came in and still resides in a clear plastic bag. No wallet. Oh well. It’s a small set of cards that you deal out to attendees of your game night when they arrive. Each player then reads their role cards to themselves and the game is on.
A game of Pretense is a meta-game that lasts the entire game night (or longer if you are hard core). When you have your role card you are trying to get someone to satisfy your role’s requirement so that you may catch them, announce your role, and then take their role card to assume their requirements. The “winner” is the person at the end of the game with the most amount of won role cards.
As you can see from the Klutz card above, if someone mentions that you suck at keeping your rolled dice on the table, you can announce that you are the Klutz, take their role card and continue playing as someone else. Well gall-darnit, why didn’t I think of that? It’s genius!
And it IS genius. It is a simple and sleek design that keeps everyone on their toes for the entire evening, trying to catch each other saying or doing something outrageous or quite normal – just to slap it in their faces and flaunt their gaming supremacy.
Components. Again, I have the Kickstarter Button Shy version of Pretense and it’s some cards in a basic clear plastic bag… well, sleeve. The cards are fine quality, and the art on them is quite good. They all have the same portraiture but with different subjects, and a nameplate above the game details. No issues on components or art here.
Pretense is a game that I can pull out with minimal (or no) explanation and have people plotting and sneaking all night long. I believe the boxed AEG version also provides role token (a la Werewolf) so everyone knows which roles are in play, but that’s no fun. It’s catching people when they aren’t thinking about what they’re doing that really makes this one shine. It will never make my Top 100 list, but I will also never let it go. I do love it and it has led to many hilarious accusations and subterfuge, so it will be mine for all time. As this game is difficult to really rate (due to it being more of an activity and not so much a game), I have left off any numeric values. This is a good time and you should defo try it out.
