Days of Wonder Announces The River
A modern twist in the worker-placement genre.
Paris, France – August 28th, 2018 - Today, Days of Wonder announced The River, a new worker and tile-placement game from Sébastien Pauchon and Ismaël Perrin.
In the game, players embody pioneers embarking down a river in search of a new lands to settle. As they explore the untouched frontier, they will have to work twice as hard to manage their workers as they start to settle down along the way. The player with the most impressive settlement will be declared the winner!
With straightforward and easy-to-learn gameplay, The River is a perfect game for the whole family. By using resources, expanding territory, and cultivating lands, players must take a decisive strategy to outmatch their opponents. Every decision counts in this fast and streamlined tile-placement game.
“Ismaël's starting idea was a worker-placement mechanic in which you have fewer and fewer workers as the game progresses. Then I brought the river into the project, and the two elements instantly clicked, leading rather smoothly to tile placement,” explains Sébastien Pauchon, co-designer of the game with Ismaël Perrin. “We are quite happy with the result: a very accessible and fast-paced worker-placement game for players of any level, yet with enough decision-making to make each turn suspenseful and interesting.”
The River is a standalone game designed for 2 to 4 players and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. It includes 1 double-sided board, 4 sets of components containing 1 River board, 1 Boat and 5 Pioneers, 65 Terrain Tiles, 20 Bonus Tokens, 1 First Player Pawn, 44 Wooden Resources, 33 Building Cards, and a rulebook. The River is expected to be available in October at Essen Spiel and then in November in North America and Europe at a suggested retail price of $40/40€.
For more information, please visit: www.daysofwonder.com/the-river/.
About Days of Wonder
Days of Wonder develops and publishes unique games in their genre. The company's "Play Different" slogan reflects its vision of publishing: Days of Wonder limits its productions to very few new games, focusing on quality rather than quantity, and developing highly refined digital adaptations. The unparalleled successes such as Ticket to Ride®, the world's best-selling train game; Small World® and its epic conquests in a fantastic universe; and Memoir '44®, the World War II reference game with over twenty expansions, motivate Days of Wonder to raise the bar ever higher. Days of Wonder board games are distributed in 40 countries and their digital versions are available on the App Store, Google Play, Steam, and the Days of Wonder website at http://www.daysofwonder.com.
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