Wolfwalker: My Story Review

In this original board game, you can choose to play competitively or cooperatively as WolfWalkers.

The objective of the game is to complete a wolf soul before soldiers find its Lair. Find the best roads through the woods, collect runes, buy different tiles, avoid the soldiers and collect wolf souls. Will you be brave enough?

Review:

WolfWalker my story is a competitive card game where one builds its storyboard trying to to obtain more point than its adversaries.

The Game

The game is made of 56 double-sided cards.  Each card has a Story-side and an Objective-side. One after the other players select one of the 8 available cards to place in their Story-grid orthogonally from an already placed card.  The story grid is a 5 by 5 grid that contains all cards, Story-side and Objective-side alike.

Story-side displays a beautiful illustration (more about art-style later) and between 1 and 4 symbols whereas objective-side display a way to organize symbols in your grid that would allow you to gain points.  There are 3 ways symbols will let you gain points, the most common one is building your grid to match a pattern displayed on one Objective-card that is also in your grid.  You can also encounter symbol-avoidance cards or symbol-friendly cards that give you points if they are free/placed orthogonally from one specific symbol.

Playing the game is fairly simple and relaxing, although small mistakes can have big consequences because you will never be able to re-arrange the card and get back the space you used.

Why it’s awesome and a word about Solo play:

First of all, I’d say that the publishers are too modest.  They stamped the game with a “2-players” tag which strictly speaking Is true.  But they included rules to play with 4 if you buy two games which for me already brings the game to a “2-4* players” count.  And even then prepare your mind to be blown … it’s really easy to play solo.  

Here is my suggestion to play solo : set up the game normally, the purpose is for you to score the maximal amount of points :

00-20 : Wolf Cub

20-40 : Wolfy

40-60 : True Form

60-80 : Wolf pack

80-100 : Wolf walker

100< : Wolfpack leader

In order to set up the difficulty, you can choose the number of time you are allowed to discard a cart from the market: Easy (6), Normal (3), Hard (1), Very Hard (0).

And there you have it: the full set of solo rules with points and difficulty, without adding any mechanics into the game.  So one might ask why I self-made it and why the publisher didn’t include it in the game from the start.  The only explanation I have is that they are not “interested” by solo play and might not think there are things like solo-board gamer as they turn their focus on familial game (taking a familial license).  Which is a pity but doesn’t take away the fact that the solo play is also really good and relaxing to play for adults and children alike.

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