🪅 Playthrough/Review: With Iron Teeth
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With Iron Teeth
What is it?
Rumour has it there’s a vampire on the loose in Glasgow, and a bunch of plucky kids will go a-hunting.
You’re a vampire, but not THAT vampire, and you’re trying to dodge.
Is it playable out of the box?
Absolutely. It’s kind of a solitaire game with a few dice rolls. Very short, very simple.
Amendments:
None. Once I had found the caltrop from my vampire dice set (which is NOT caltrop-shaped and I swear I counted six dice on the first round; cue panic). You have to do a little sorting of the deck, but that’s trivial.
I think I’d like to make up a rool for how you move across the battlefield (a grid of cards you turn over one by one); this could make it more interesting. Or screw things up. More experimentation needed.
Tools
Playing cards, 1d4, a marker for where you are, and a way to note both blood and peril.
Price:
Pay what you want.
Verdict
🪅 Quick Fun
This is a very short game of chance. I did write out the narrative, but very briefly; there are no prompts for individual cards, just for the suits.
This is a quick game – I think it took me half an hour all in all, including reading the rules and finding a miniature that looked a little vampiry – and it was fun, quick, and brainless.
This looks like it could fill the niche of short video games - you have twenty minutes before you need to do something else, you don’t want to brain, you don’t want to sink into anything meaningful, and there’s a little tension and a little strategy.
This is Indie gaming at its best. It doesn’t have to be epic, it doesn’t have to be polished, it just has to be fun.
With Iron Teeth
What is it?
Rumour has it there’s a vampire on the loose in Glasgow, and a bunch of plucky kids will go a-hunting.
You’re a vampire, but not THAT vampire, and you’re trying to dodge.
Is it playable out of the box?
Absolutely. It’s kind of a solitaire game with a few dice rolls. Very short, very simple.
Amendments:
None. Once I had found the caltrop from my vampire dice set (which is NOT caltrop-shaped and I swear I counted six dice on the first round; cue panic). You have to do a little sorting of the deck, but that’s trivial.
I think I’d like to make up a rool for how you move across the battlefield (a grid of cards you turn over one by one); this could make it more interesting. Or screw things up. More experimentation needed.
Tools
Playing cards, 1d4, a marker for where you are, and a way to note both blood and peril.
Price:
Pay what you want.
Verdict
🪅 Quick Fun
This is a very short game of chance. I did write out the narrative, but very briefly; there are no prompts for individual cards, just for the suits.
This is a quick game – I think it took me half an hour all in all, including reading the rules and finding a miniature that looked a little vampiry – and it was fun, quick, and brainless.
This looks like it could fill the niche of short video games - you have twenty minutes before you need to do something else, you don’t want to brain, you don’t want to sink into anything meaningful, and there’s a little tension and a little strategy.
This is Indie gaming at its best. It doesn’t have to be epic, it doesn’t have to be polished, it just has to be fun.
