"Midgardr," Looks Like a Clever Genre-Mixing Game

Carolina Ronchi of the indie game development team Holy Radish recently reached out to me (as folks sometimes do to share about a project they're working on). She wanted to tell me about how they had an upcoming game called, "Midgardr," that I might be interested in. With a demo launching on June 3rd, this game is, "a solo, turn-based city builder and card game played directly on a [virtual] board, where the player rules as a medieval administrator. From reading up on the game and looking at clips, it intrigues me as someone who has enjoyed city-building games, card games, and the like. I always love when creation takes different genres and finds clever ways to mash them up--just look at my recent review of, "Drop Duchy," and its blend of Tetris and wargaming for one example."Midgardr," has a storyline, political intrigue, and moral choices, along with the expected stuff like resource management and fiddling with your city's setup to make it function as productively as you can. Set…