Strike It Rich In The Old West With Coloma

February 24, 2019 by cassn

Howdy, partner! Y'all best be moseying on over to Final Frontier Games cos they got a game guaranteed to give a rootin' tootin' good time!

In Coloma, you are a pioneer traveling out west to strike it rich and make it big during the great California gold rush of 1849! Prospect gold, recruit workers, rustle up horses, and use your money to build businesses in the Californian sunshine! Be careful, however, because unscrupulous outlaws lurk in the outskirts, ready to hit at high noon!

Coloma is a worker-placement game with several interesting mechanics. At the beginning of the game, all players select and reveal an action - if too many players choose the same action to perform, it is a Bust - negating the laster possibility of a Boom bonus for players. Players then take their chosen development actions and the board is rotated, changing the layout of actions for subsequent rounds.

When the board rotates to high noon, the round ends with a shootout between you and a growing number of unscrupulous outlaws. If you and your gunmen can outnumber the outlaws, you'll get the reward for saving the town. However, if you can't, you'll be burying some of your men in the town's graveyard. The game ends after the third shootout, so you best have your horse saddled and ready to run!

Coloma is fully funded on Kickstarter, so mosey on over and back it now!

Do you like games with a Western theme?