2022Ole Steiness
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1 - 4 players60 - 150 minMedium weight

2022Ole Steiness
Mainly reviews. Meeples & Monsters is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The peaceful city of Rowan is surrounded by dangerous monsters. It's up to the citizens to fortify the city, train up warriors, clerics, knights, and mages, and defend Rowan in Meeples & Monsters! Meeples & Monsters is a big, beautiful bag-building engine builder by designer Ole Steiness (Champions of Midgard and more). Depth, replayability, beautiful components, and a splash of meeple humor will have you coming back for “just one more play” game night after game night! During a players turn, they draw meeples out their bag and use those meeples to perform various actions on the board. Those actions include upgrading your meeples, adding new meeples to your bag, fighting monsters, investigating towers, or even upgrading the town giving players even more options on future turns. At the end of a player's turn, all the meeples they drew are put onto the “lodging” part of the player's board. During the game, players will score victory points by defeating monsters, completing quests, and investigating towers. At the end of the game, players will score additional victory points by fighting boss monsters and through end of game quests. The player with the most victory points wins! -description from the publisher NOTE: The KS edition can be found here: Meeples & Monsters: Kickstarter Edition.
Meeples & Monsters has 22 videos from 21 creators: 10 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2021 to October 2023.
To learn the rules, start with "Meeples & Monsters - Tutorial Playthrough" by Getting Games, which runs 59 min. For a quicker teach, "How to Play Meeples & Monsters + Review | Table Talk Reviews" by Table Talk Reviews runs 20 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Video Review" by MarcoOmnigamer. 10 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Meeples and Monsters ... Full Playthrough by the Crabby Dice" by The Crabby Dice, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game, Champions of Midgard, Valheim: The Board Game and Altay: Dawn of Civilization, also by Ole Steiness.
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1 - 4 players60 - 150 minMedium weight
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From BoardGameGeek:
The peaceful city of Rowan is surrounded by dangerous monsters. It's up to the citizens to fortify the city, train up warriors, clerics, knights, and mages, and defend Rowan in Meeples & Monsters! Meeples & Monsters is a big, beautiful bag-building engine builder by designer Ole Steiness (Champions of Midgard and more). Depth, replayability, beautiful components, and a splash of meeple humor will have you coming back for “just one more play” game night after game night! During a players turn, they draw meeples out their bag and use those meeples to perform various actions on the board. Those actions include upgrading your meeples, adding new meeples to your bag, fighting monsters, investigating towers, or even upgrading the town giving players even more options on future turns. At the end of a player's turn, all the meeples they drew are put onto the “lodging” part of the player's board. During the game, players will score victory points by defeating monsters, completing quests, and investigating towers. At the end of the game, players will score additional victory points by fighting boss monsters and through end of game quests. The player with the most victory points wins! -description from the publisher NOTE: The KS edition can be found here: Meeples & Monsters: Kickstarter Edition.
Designer
Ole Steiness
Artist
Gong Studios
Publisher
Alderac Entertainment Group
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