New Game Round-up: Caveman Capers for Kids, Searching Egypt Again, and The Inevitable Return of Those Walkers

by W. Eric Martin

• Well, well, well — it appears that all that time spent in the mating hut didn't go to waste as German publisher Hans im Glück has announced that Stone Age Junior, a Marco Teubner design based on the original Stone Age strategy game, is due out in February 2016.

Info is minimal right now, with HiG promising more details later in January 2016. BGG will be at Spielwarenmesse 2016, and we'll record an overview then. For now, here's a pic of some components and a brief description:

Travel to the past with Jonon and Jada, two stone age children, to rediscover how the first humans settled the world around them.

In Stone Age Junior, a children's version of the Stone Age family game, the players collect goods and build their own settlement.

HiG's English-language partner Z-Man Games will release this title under the name My First Stone Age in 2016.

• In January 2016, Z-Man Games will release Archaeology: The New Expedition, a new version of Phil Walker-Harding's Archaeology: The Card Game that includes tent cards to protect players from sandstorms, adds new treasure types and additional cards to allow for five players, adjusts some treasure values, and includes six monuments instead of one to have more variety when exploring.

• As noted in a comment on a recent BGG News post, Pearl Games has announced that it expects to reprint Troyes in 2016 in addition to releasing a first expansion for Deus. Pearl's Sébastien Dujardin says that if the Troyes is well-received, then a reprint of The Ladies of Troyes expansion will follow. Dujardin adds that Pearl Games is working on "several 'large' releases" for 2017.

• Mantic Games has announced a license with Skybound Entertainment for the creation of miniatures games based on The Walking Dead, with The Walking Dead Miniatures Game coming out in Q4 2016 and expansion sets featuring characters such as Shane, Michonne and Glenn to follow. Here's an overview of what to expect:

The Walking Dead Miniatures Game is a tactical, two-player game set in the walker-strewn Atlanta cityscape, with each player controlling a small band of human survivors vying to achieve dominance. The game can also be played solo through a custom AI system that ensures walker behavior is menacingly authentic.

The Walking Dead Miniatures Game features Rick, Carl and other heroes and villains featured in the original Walking Dead comic book, plus a host of walkers, a selection of scenarios and everything else needed to play.