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London After Midnight

Arsene Lupin vs the Marsh Phantom

Heroes and monsters fight each other in the streets of Victorian London, each player fights for one of the factions. At the start you are assigned one faction card which you keep secret till the end of the game. In your turn you can either play a card on the table, into your so-called neighborhood, or draw a card in hand up to a maximum of three cards.

Cards in your neighborhood show one or two black icons for monsters or two white icons for heroes and represent a character with a special ability that you can use, some of them are optional actions, others are mandatory actions. Some of the characters are very powerful and only represented once, for instance the Werewolf, others are less dangerous, but represented several times. The faction card assigned to you at the start names two characters – if you manage to have them in your neighborhood you score a bonus at the end of the game.

When the last card has been drawn each player reveals his faction and sums up the icons on the cards in his neighborhood, positive for his own faction and negative for the other faction, plus one point for characters named on the faction card.

This is really fun! The cards feature characters from quite a few well-known stories, there are Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde who cancel each other out, or there is Arsene Lupin who can steal a card from another player. And you can bluff so nicely – am I a monster or do I only play a monster, because I have to? Nicely gruesome, ease to learn and easy to play, but you should acquaint yourself with the 18 different cards in the game at the start of playing, in order to be able to use them in an optimum way.

Players: 2-6

Age: 9+

Time: 15+

Designer: Enrique Duenas

Artist: James A. Castillo, Juancho Capic

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Gen-X Games 2015

Web: www.genxgames.com

Genre: Card effects, faction alignment

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard topic extremely nicely implemented

Easy to explain and quick to play

Card text in three languages

Good, entertaining fun!

Compares to:

Love Letters and other Micro Games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0