CASTING SHADOWS (AND ICE STORM EXPANSION)

Lipstick on a Shadow Pig

ADAM RICHARDS

Designer: Ramy Badie | Publisher: Unstable Games When I opened Casting Shadows, I had high hopes. The components are really high quality, the artwork is fantastic and the overall concept is cool. Each player takes the role of some kind of creature, duking it out with your opponents until only the winner is left standing. You roll dice to collect resources, then spend your action points moving, collecting and casting spells, hopefully evolving your creature into its Shadow Form to make it even more powerful. Sounds cool, right? How quickly its house of cards comes crashing down. I don’t want to turn this into a cardboard character assassination, but Casting Shadows has a lot of problems. Let’s start at the beginning: The tile your meeple is standing on gives you…

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