Some games just charm you from the moment you rip off the cellophane.
Cube Creatures is one of those games.
It starts with the nifty magnetic closing box lid, and the
clean front of box design – both a credit to someone wanting to present their
game in a most satisfying way.
Inside is a rather straight forward two-player card battler
that will remind a bit of Magic the Gathering if you striped it down to its
most basic mechanics – critters battling critters.
In Cube Creatures players share a single deck of cards – no
pre-game time consuming deck building here, and no expense buying booster
packs. (The caveat being if this one sells well you almost know an expansion
would be forthcoming).
So each player gets a hand of cards – they are going to be
creatures, or creature enhancements for the most part with a spattering of
‘instant’ play cards or spells.
You must have creatures in play and you have to battle. It’s
really that straightforward.
You win five battles so that you claim the losing creatures
and you win.
It’s quick and it is so much fun.
Helping raise this one a click higher is amazingly charming
art – think the best doodles in the margins of a middle school student’s
notebook. That is actually the case here since Cube Creatures is the creation
of a dad and his seven-year-old son.
That combo is no doubt why this game plays so easily. It is
an entry level battler for even the youngest player.
And, while it is all easy and geared to the broadest
audience of gamer, grizzled old vets like Trevor and I with years of Magic,
Warlord, Flesh and Blood and so many more card battlers, Cube Creatures was
still ‘fun’.
Ultimately, fun is all one should want from any game, and with that you really need to check this one out via a Facebook search.
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