O Inovador Magic Maze – Editora Conclave

Last month the Conclave launched the award-winning Magic Maze. The game, which is already a success around the world, is pleasing and surprising an increasing number of players in Brazil due to its innovative mechanics and its unique experience at the table. But what's so different about Magic Maze?

You are an action!

Usually in a board game you represent a character, a troop, a commander or a vehicle or machine. but not Magic Maze you represent an action! Yes, as strange as this may seem, each player is an action in the game. You might be moving north, south, east, or west, going up an escalator, using a vortex, and so on.

At first you might find this very strange… but the fact that each one is an action, each one has its role in the game, makes the essence of cooperative play jump out. If everyone doesn't do their part, the group doesn't win!

Real time!

Everyone plays at the same time, but the game is not chaotic, or chaotic in the right measure! Because each one must do his part in the game and, although there are no defined game turns, if a player doesn't do his part, you will be unable to do yours. This, associated with the time running on the sand in the hourglass, causes tension in the right measure.

Silence!

Communications are not allowed during most of the match. That's right, you can't tell your partner he's "flying" or tell him what to do. The most you can do is use the pawn "Do something“, putting him in front of his playmate to indicate that he needs to do something… What? He has to find out himself!

End of “Alpha Player”!

Many people complain that co-op games tend to produce the “Alpha Player”. That guy who “knows everything”, who wants to make the decisions for others and who takes charge of the match. In Magic Maze That does not exist. As everyone must do their part, execute their actions, there is no communication and time is real, there is no possibility of someone taking control. The most that can happen is someone uses the pawn more.”Do something” than others. But believe me, if he spends so much time paying attention to other people's moves, he certainly won't be paying attention to his own...

Anyway, Magic Maze it's an amazing game! Extremely innovative, but without being something bizarre! Is it not for nothing that he received all these awards and nominations?