A Taiwanese tabletop game has won the Best Strategy Card Game at the UK Games Expo in Solihull, England, earlier this month, game studio Play With Us Design said on Thursday.
The expo, established in 2007, is the largest of its kind in the UK and the third-biggest in the world, the Taiwan-based studio said, adding that the hobby convention is well-attended by Western designers.
In the award-winning game, called Vita Mors, players are thrust into a fictional medieval kingdom suffering from an outbreak of the Black Death to assume the role of rivaling Grim Reapers that connive against one another to claim souls, the studio said.
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The players must frustrate the plague doctors’ efforts to save lives while imposing the goals of their character on the game world to win, it said.
The game can be played by three to six players and features a voting mechanism that tests their skill in subterfuge, disguise and alliance-building in addition to card handling, the studio said.
While Vita Mors is in the same genre as The Werewolves of Millers Hollow and Avalon, it differs from those titles with its emphasis on narrative, gameplay experience and the quality of the artwork used in the game set, it said.
A Taiwanese game being recognized at the expo a year after the studio’s Ave garnered the US-based Major Fun Award shows that Taiwan’s tabletop game industry is ready to take its place on the global scene, the studio said.
It said it hopes that more Taiwanese original tabletop games would achieve excellence on the international stage.
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