If the title alone for this one doesn’t get you, I don’t know what will. Geeks Unleashed is a pretty fun poke at geek culture and a pretty fun little casual strategic game on top of that. Essentially, you are squaring off with geeks of various kinds to advance your way through a convention hall. And before your (and my!) collective gaming culture rebels at the idea of a game poking fun at you, the game paints a broad picture of geek, as well it should. Sure, you’ve got your D&D geek and your Star Trek geek… but you’ve also got your fashion geek and more. It’s a wide world of geek.

The idea behind the game is a solid blend of simple strategy and sort of blind luck. You are faced with a grid, and each square on the grid has an item in it. You also have a sort of shopping list of items, and you need to collect a certain number of these items. Let’s say you need to get four orcs. Well, if you collect a fifth orc, that actually resets your total back down to one orc. Not such a big deal? Well, it becomes the biggest deal in the game basically due to the way turns progress.

If you take a turn and pick an item from a particular column, your opponent then must pick from another item in the horizontal row based on the square you chose. Then, you must pick from the vertical row of the square they chose. So, by maneuvering this way, you try and trap your opponent into making poor collection choices.

Different items will also award multiples of a certain item or simply complete a category for an item, so you want to steer your opponent away from those. On top of this, each level has a bonus type of match or goal that you can try to collect.

The game doesn’t take many cycles to process, it’s relatively simple… but it is engaging, whimsical and has some really great art. This is another one I had such a great initial impression of, I just went ahead and bought it, so you know I had to like it.

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