Centre Rock is a free download and build board game from Rocket Ship games. It can be played with the included counters, but more interesting to me are the photos of the game being played with miniatures.
Print-and-Play
Miskatonic Madness Board Game
Miskatonic Madness is a free downloadable board game from Richard Launius, the creator of the original legendary Arkham Horror board game. This is a two player game and is very well done.
Here’s what Richard Launius says about the game:
this is an update of a very simple game I designed years ago and gave out a conventions to people who play-tested Arkham Horror and my more robust game designs. It is meant to be simple and in no way is comparable to Arkham Horror or Trail of the Brotherhood, but in it’s own right is fun and there is a strategy to playing the game. Lastly like Lovecraft stories, the magic of this game is in the imaginations of the viewers. With imagination it is a fun little game
Good Little Ninjas Card Game
Good Little Ninjas is a free print-and-play card drafting game. The author writes:
In Good Little Ninjas, players become inhabitants of medieval Japan. Each of the game’s seven rounds represent one day in the life of a bustling village, full of characters and opportunity.
Every day you have the chance to employ Farmers, Carpenters, Merchants and Peasants to harvest rice and construct buildings. The more daring might send Ninjas to raid the Palace Treasury, or recruit Samurai to prevent the predicted raids. You might even persuade one of the more powerful inhabitants to help you: the Daiymo, the Shogun, or even the Emperor himself!
Ultimately, the player who best uses their cunning to gain the most coins wins the game.
Zombie Wars Boardgame
From Invisible City Games comes Zombie Wars, a free zombie board game. Zombie Wars: “Undead warfare between two to four rival zombie masters rages in the streets of Smallton�”
Bloody Mary – Further Intrigue In The Tudor Court
Bloody Mary is the title of Gary Stevens’ free downloadable board game of intrigue in the Tudor Court. Stevens writes:
In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne… and keep your own head.
The game starts at the coronation of Henry VIII’s son Edward. It follows the history of mid-Tudor England for a further 25 years. You must plot to place your favoured candidate on the throne. You play the part of a faction of courtiers trying to preserve your power and influence. The game is solidly based in history (well, as solidly as I can make it). It is meant to be educational as well as entertaining.