The Four New Games in all their Glory!

The Four New Games in all their Glory!

Invasion of the Brood

“War of the Worlds meets Independence Day”

Invasion of the Brood is a two-player strategy game, in which the two sides have greatly different strategies, abilities, and even turn structures. Will humanity pull together to stop this alien invasion, or will the sinister Broodmaster take over the world? You decide! 

Evacuate

“Don’t outrun the monsters, outrun your friends”

Evacuate is a community deck-building game where players use social deduction to outwit the other players and reach the Evacuation Transport with the most Survivors.

Potions & Profits

“Even magic dreams have a price”

In this 3-6 player bidding game, you are a Wizard representing one of many pharmaceutical corporations looking for new Potions to invest in. Competing Wizards will try to outbid you for Potions as you balance both your Stock Value and your Public Relations.  

The most profitable Potions tend to be the least ethical but that doesn’t matter so long as your investors are happy and not too many protesters are kicking down your door.

Marry the Monster

“Trick the monster into smashing your rivals”

Marry the Monster is a game for 3 to 5 players in which each player scores points by building structures and having them remain until your next turn without being destroyed by the monster. Turns are taken by playing cards, and there is no upkeep phase — play simply continues until there is a winner.

Monster Invasion Coming March 9!

Monster Invasion Coming March 9!

Our New Project on Gamefound

Petersen Games is working with Gamefound to launch a new game project called Monster Invasion featuring FOUR new games by us! Each game has a different theme, a wildly different gameplay, each is from a different game designer, each a terrifying addition to any game collection!

In addition, all 4 of the Monster Invasion games have already been manufactured and shipped to our warehouses and are ready to go!

Watch our new overview video of the campaign, and stay tuned until next week when we unveil the full campaign preview page on Gamefound!

The Four New Games in all their Glory!

Play Each Monster Invasion Game on Tabletop Simulator

You can never really understand or appreciate a new game until you’ve played it. Curious about the ins and outs of any of our four new releases coming March 9 to Gamefound? Many thanks to Gilbert Guillen, who has set up each of them on Tabletop Simulator so you can take them for a test spin! 

So feel free to explore, test, and enjoy as we finish setting up the campaign on Gamefound!

Invasion of the Brood

War of the Worlds meets Independence Day”

Invasion of the Brood is a two player strategy game, in which the two sides have greatly different strategies, abilities, and even turn structures. Will humanity pull together to stop this alien invasion, or will the sinister Broodmaster take over the world? You decide! 

Evacuate

“Don’t outrun the monsters, outrun your friends”

Evacuate is a community deck-building game where players use social deduction to outwit the other players and reach the Evacuation Transport with the most Survivors.

Marry the Monster

“Trick the monster into smashing your rivals”

Marry the Monster is a game for 3 to 5 players in which each player scores points by building structures and having them remain until your next turn without being destroyed by the monster. Turns are taken by playing cards, and there is no upkeep phase — play simply continues until there is a winner.

Potions & Profits

“Even magic dreams have a price”

In this 3-6 player bidding game, you are a Wizard representing one of many pharmaceutical corporations looking for new Potions to invest in. Competing Wizards will try to outbid you for Potions as you balance both your Stock Value and your Public Relations.  

The most profitable Potions tend to be the least ethical but that doesn’t matter so long as your investors are happy and not too many protesters are kicking down your door.

The Four New Games in all their Glory!

Monster Invasion Coming in February!

Our New Projects on Gamefound

We are excited to announce a new partnership! Petersen Games is working with Gamefound to launch a 4-game crowdfunding project called Monster Invasion featuring four new games … each with a different theme, a wildly different gameplay, each from a different designer, each a terrifying addition to any game collection!

THE BEST THING ABOUT IT: all four of the Monster Invasion games have already been designed, manufactured and shipped to our warehouses!

Review of Invasion of the Brood by Guildmaster Gaming
One of our Monster Invasion February Releases

Invasion of the Brood is the classic sci-fi story of Earth being invaded. It is set in our current time, so there are no special weapons technology to learn to play. The rulebook gives good instructions and examples to get everyone up to speed quickly and easily. The board, pieces, and rules are easy to use.

Invasion of the Brood is a good one-on-one strategy game that is balanced to give both sides a chance at winning or losing the game. The number of options a player can choose from give the game the ability to be played multiple times, back-to-back, without it feeling like it is predetermined what is going to happen.

The games we played were close, the world hanging in the balance of a few moments and the outcome of a single turn. The closeness of the outcomes was strong enough to pull us back to attempt another game, with a slight change in our choices. Or, to attempt something completely different.

I recommend Invasion of the Brood for players who like: One-on-one strategy, Sci-fi themes (especially invasion themed sci-fi), Faster paced strategy games.

Designer Diary: Potions & Profits

Designer Diary: Potions & Profits

(Game to be released later this Winter)
by Zoran Dobrijevic

Potions and Profits came from the desire to build a game around imperfect information. There are many games about pushing your luck, value speculation, or just mitigating randomness but few built around giving players only general clues about the board state. A game with perfect information becomes one of low luck and high skill but this limits the enjoyment of many players.

The game chess already exists and not everyone desires to play that game at every opportunity. On the other end of the spectrum are games that are high luck and low skill as the amount of information hidden from the players or random number generation makes it impossible to optimize play. I find that Potions and Profits sits in an interesting design space where it has some hidden information but every move a player takes grants imperfect information to every player, making every move engaging for everyone else at the table.