Dungeon Petz is a recent game by veteran designer Vlaada Chvátil.   His design credits include: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, Galaxy Trucker, Space Alert, Dungeon Lords, and Mage Knight. My Wednesday night gaming group brought this to the table recently so here is a brief review based on the initial play. As with other games, I’ll rank the game on a variety of aspects, and provide an overall rating. Description Become the leader of an imp family that has just started a new business – breeding and selling petz. Sound simple and safe? Well, we forgot to mention that those petz are for Dungeon Lords. This means magical, playful, sometimes angry monsters that constantly desire attention and at the very moment you want them to demonstrate their qualities to buyers they are sick or they poo. Sometimes you are even glad that you got rid of them – but the profit is unbelievable. Dungeon Petz is a standalone game set in the Dungeon Lords universe created in the board game of the same name. The game consists of several rounds in which players use unusual worker placement mechanisms (players simultaneously prepare different-sized groups of imps in order to play sooner than others) to prepare themselves for the uneasy task of raising creature cubs and pleasing their different needs represented by cards in order to sell them as grown scary creatures to Dungeon Lords. In the meantime they also attend various contests in which they show off their pets, scoring additional

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