‘Coyote & Crow’ Launches ‘Wolves’ Board Game Today On Kickstarter
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
The first big follow-up to the wildly successful TTRPG Coyote & Crow is launching today, July 10th, 2023!
Coyote & Crow is easily one of the best representations of Indigenous futurism within the tabletop gaming space and has been nominated for a Nebula Award for Game Writing and they have won the 2022 Tabletop Game Awards for Best RPG and Rising Star Publisher. They also earned the best core RPG at the Origin Awards, a highly respected honor in the gaming space.
Now, the talented people at Coyote & Crow are releasing a new tabletop board game titled Wolves on Kickstarter today!
You can back Wolves at this link.
Wolves is a stand-alone, tabletop board game for 3-6 players. It’s semi-cooperative and is designed by the talented Connor Alexander and features art from Sadekaronhes Esquivel and Ovila Mailhot.
In Wolves, players will take on the roles of leaders of their own communities, each of which generates resources and needs them to last through winter. What I really love about this concept, though, is that if any community fails to meet its basic resource needs, all players lose the game.
Consequently, players will be able to gift other communities their excess resources each turn, helping ensure everyone gets their needs met. Along the way, players will gain status by either gifting resources or giving excess to their own people. At the end of the game, if all players have survived the winter, the player with the most status is elected chief of all of the communities and is granted an additional victory.
The game takes anywhere from 45-100 minutes, depending on the number of players. It incorporates some push-your-luck elements, hand management, and concepts centered around gifting economies.
In addition, Coyote & Crow is planning on producing this entire game using wood, recycled cardboard, and compostable materials where ever possible. Their goal is to use zero plastics in this game. Not even shrink wrap.
Also, just to make sure I put this out there, For those of you who have not played in the world of Coyote & Crow, you can still enjoy Wolves without any lore or knowledge!
Until next time, GO! Check out the Kickstarter!
