Sunderfolk

This not an entry into the Best Games of the 2020’s and that is not a poor reflection of what Sunderfolk has to offer.

Calling it a video game is probably disingenuous, it has more in common with Gloomhaven than it does with any of the games I’ve played this year. And that is a good thing. A hybrid video game/board game, voardgame? that you play couch co-op style. Each player managing their character from their phone. You are deck building when you level up and coordinating attacks on the board with your friends.

It doesn’t make the list however because of it’s pace. It all starts very slowly and a two hour session might not net you very much progress. Nor challenge, it feels like it requires a lot of tutorial before it lets you loose or challenges your group. Neither of the two groups I tried it with were willing to invest in peeling it’s rind to get to it’s theoretical juice.