Games like The Bloody Forks of the Ohio
Looking for games like The Bloody Forks of the Ohio? Here are top action recommendations with a historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Liars Eat Well, Empire: Total War or The Warren.
1 Someone has stolen a pig. As a sophisticated traveler you may find this crisis laughable, but for these poor farmers a full-grown pig will fetch the same coin as two months of hard work, and it will keep a family from starving over a hard winter. It isn’t funny to the people who lost the pig—it is a disaster. They want their pig back and they want you to find it, alive or in pieces. And they want …
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2 89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding90% User Score 21,442 reviewsCritic Score 88%4 reviewsLead great 18th-century powers in a race for military and economic dominance.
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3 59%Game Brain Score59% User Score 10 reviewsThe Warren is a tabletop role-playing game about intelligent rabbits trying to make the best of a world filled with hazards, predators and, worst of all, other rabbits. It is a game about survival and community. There are many creatures, humans included, that are bigger, stronger, meaner, or more numerous than rabbits. The seasons and the elements do not care that rabbits are only little things. …
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4 When adventurers come to town, there is a simple and time-honored checklist. 1. Hide the children. 2. Get out our valuables and put them in a pile. That’s it. That’s the checklist. Then hope they take our things and don’t go looking for our children. The alternative, of course, is to utter a word of protest, or to stupidly conceal our valuables, or to issue the slightest whiff of resistance. Th…
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5 Space is a huge inconvenience. It’s big, it’s dangerous, and it is between you and anywhere interesting. Once upon a time it was so outrageously hazardous that people traveling through it were killed now and then just for being there. Of course today spaceships are safe and sensible and no one dies in old-fashioned ways like “hull depressurization” or “reactor explosion”. Today spaceships are sm…
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6 Magic Circle is the name of a leafy suburban cul-de-sac where a bunch of monsters live The monsters keep a low profile but there’s always something complicating the simple life. This game is about them meeting to address neighborhood problems, both mundane and fantastic. Magic Circle is a tabletop roleplaying game designed by Jason Morningstar. Logistics: Participants: 4-8 players, one of whom lig…
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7 Bermuda, 1934. You’ve come to this paradise to drop a two-and-a-half ton iron ball off the side of a ship and lower it almost a kilometer into the abyss. You’ve come to crawl inside that iron ball and go down with it, to see what there is to see down there. You’ve come with three other brilliant adventurers, friends, and lovers, and you’ll all get a chance to descend and risk your lives in excha…
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8 75%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, grinding75% User Score 552 reviewsWrite your own story and change the course of history as you lead of one of the Great Powers during the era of the First World War. Can you prevail as modern industrialized warfare changes the age of empires forever? Your actions will influence world events as you navigate a path through shifting alliances, emerging technologies and self-serving nations who hold power over vast populations eager …
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9 52%Game Brain Score52% User Score 3 reviewsEvery household has a ghost. It’s perfectly natural to desire to communicate with your household ghost. There’s nothing “wrong” or “deviant” about forming a connection across the spirit realm, and the insight and wisdom your ghost can provide may be delightful, exciting - or even life-changing. Ghost communication is not difficult, but it does require focus, intention and good will. A typical comm…
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10 51%Game Brain Score51% User Score 2 reviewsWe are wizards! We can communicate with one another over great distances from the comfort of our own towers, using crystal balls. Today, we will meet and solve the problem of how to unite the two proud nations of Black Mountain and Smallwood. Each of you has your own loyalties and agenda that you’ll strive to uphold. How you do it is up to you...but there is one hitch. Wizard decorum forbids …
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