Game Announcement : Return of the Inca Empire

Publisher: White Goblin Games — October 2010

Featured at: Spiel 2010

Publisher: Z-Man Games — October 2010

Featured at: Spiel 2010

Inca Empire is a slightly revised version of Alan Ernstein's Tahuantinsuyu, published by his own Hangman Games in 2004. This new version includes revised artwork, language-independent cards that use iconography instead of text (with card explanations in the rulebook, and roads created by components placed on the game board instead of being drawn on with markers. White Goblin Games, which is in charge of the production, has also created a double-sided game board – one side for four players (shown right), the other for three – instead of using an overlay. As for the game play, here's a game description from the publisher:

In Inca Empire, the players are "Apus" – that is, leader of one of the four regions/suyus. Your job as an Apu is to increase your status in the eyes of the devine emperor, "Sapa Inca," by doing the best job of expanding and improving the empire. Each Apu begins with the manpower of their region of the original empire. They build roads and conquer neighboring regions, increasing the manpower and resources available to them. Apus are awarded for each new region they add to the empire and for improvements such as terraces, garrisons, cities and temples. The player who has the most victory points when Pizarro arrives in the Inca capital at Cuzco wins the game.

White Goblin Games expects to release this game at Spiel 2010, and Zev Shlasinger at Z-Man Games has confirmed that release date for his company, too.