Pixie Queen is a strategic board game by Game brewer with a dark humorous twist in which 2-5 players try their best to fulfill the many cravings of their hellish Queen. In case they succeed they will be rewarded by not getting a whipping. If they fail the pit of oblivion awaits ...
You may purchase here the retail version of the game, with the stretch goal unlocked during the kickstarter campaign. The game is language independent and all the copies will contain the rulebook in Spanish and Italian. Other languages are available online (English, German, French and Dutch).
You can join this campaign by making payment by credit card, Paypal, Bitcoins or bank wire transfer. In addition, payment by Paypal in 4 installments is also available.
Component Upgrade
Many components are been upgraded during the Kickstarter campaign and already added in your game box:
How to play
Pixie Queen is a diabolic worker-placement game about a Queen who rules over her subordinates like a true tyrant. According to legend her pixie slaves are small flying naughty creatures often spotted around Cornwall and Devon in the UK. Pixies steal from humans, do all kinds of mischief and often torment other creatures ... such as pixies of the other players. The game tells you the true tale of these poor little oppressed pixies.
All players that score more penalty points than the player who scores least of them are the losers of the game. Penalty points are the only points one can receive during the torturous game. In case a player miraculously succeeds in pleasing the Queen by offering her golden rings, goods or servants, he will receive reward tiles which at the end of the game will diminish his pile of painstakingly gathered penalty points ...
In summary the game consists of a maximum of 7 rounds consisting of 5 phases each:
- Plundering food (honey, apples & bread) in Truro, the nearest human village.
- Perform actions with your 4 action discs to scavenge for more goods to offer, deal punishment to other players, steal from other pixies, trick yourself to the front of play order and generally speaking mess things up for your opponents. No less than 21 different actions make for agonizing choices each round.
- Then it is time to offer your Queen whatever she wants, even if it is your blood she wants! Take resources in your fist, hold it out and simultaneously reveal the results of your toiling labor. Make sure to offer the right things, otherwise face the wrath of the Queen!
- Get rewarded for your excruciating work by promoting your pixies to become loyal servants or getting a less bad position on the trade track, both resulting in fewer penalty points granted.
- In the end the Queen punishes those unworthy of her attention. Those who achieved too little are flayed and will have pixies enslaved or even worse: be thrown into the pit of oblivion ...
Run through
Reviews & Awards
Pixie Quenn is the Winner of the "best prototype" award - Zomerspel 2016 - Ghent
"How to write a neutral review of a demo when the game already has blown you away so hard?" Geel Pionneke - May 2016 - www.geelpionneke.be (Dutch)
"What immediately strikes you is the fenomenal artwork of the game." Spinli - August 2016 - www.bloggen.be/speleninlille (Dutch)
"Pixie Queen is a great worker placement game which has a nice theme all over it. I really like the theme of this game." Nox Spellenzolder - July 2016 - (video review below - English)
"A perfect mix between complexity, strategy and mischief :-). A top notch game!" Marc Van Kerschaver - www.facebook.com/gamebrewer.games
"Great inovative game in a great thematic setting." Bjorn Pauwels - www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200890/pixie-queen
"Played the demo-version and wanted to play it again immediately (so I did!)" Fozz - www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200890/pixie-queen
"There's a unique workerplacement part that I've never seen before in any other game. Highly recommended!" Leen Dirk - www.facebook.com/zomerspel
"Also the artwork is fantastic ! Can't wait to see it on Kickstarter !" roadie 75 - www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200890/pixie-queen
"A lot of different actions in the game, but the icons are very clear. I'VE GOT TO HAVE THIS :-)" Bellaatje - www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200890/pixie-queen
Walkthrough & Review by Nox Spellenzolder (EN)
Shipping
Shipping to Italy costs 4.27 euros. For other countries, the shipping cost will be shown after clicking the "Proceed to checkout” button on the cart. Some examples (there are different options, the cheapest solution is shown):
France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Norway: 10.95 euro (UPS access point)
USA/Canada: 14 euro (postal service)
China, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Turkey: 14 euro (postal service)
It is possible to pick up your copy - free of charge - at our pickup point in Rome or at Lucca Comics and Games (Italy) and Essen Spiel fair (Germany).
Games will be shipped from November 2017 or as soon the publisher Games brewer will provide us the games.
Note: We strongly suggest that you specify a telephone number in your profile. This helps a lot with the game delivery. We will use the address specified in your GS account profile at the moment of shipping: this means you can change it as you wish until that date, as we will use the last address provided.
About Game brewer
Game brewer is a new board game publishing company based in Turnhout, Belgium. A couple of years ago Rudy and Seb met and decided to start doing different projects revolving around board games.
With Rudy's help Seb saw his dream come true with the birth of "de Kolonisten", his very own board game store and now it is time to ensure Rudy's dream becomes reality as well by publishing his very first board game with hopefully many to follow in case this campaign hits target!
The people behind Game Brewer. Left to right: Rudy, JocArt and Seb.
Rudy Seuntjens - Game Designer
Rudy is an architect by education which shows how eager he is to build and design things. When you throw in a passion for board games the result of the equation is not hard to guess ... He became a board game designer.
Over the last couple of years Rudy has been developing some twenty different games of which approximately ten saw prototype play and further development. One stood out so much he decided he would probably buy it himself if ever he played it and so we decided this one to become the first title we would launch under the Game Brewer banner: Pixie Queen.
JocArt - Illustrator & Animator
JocArt is a local talent in illustrating and animating … well, more or less anything. At Game Brewer we still recall the moment he showed us his scrap book with some “on the road” sketches. Jaws were dropping we assure you …
Whenever he is not eating, sleeping or addressing some other primal need, he is found drawing things. Apparently he is spotted quite often at family meetings in the kids corner using the paper and pencils to draw all kinds of dragons, trolls and other fantastical creatures.
What can you say? If it’s in your blood …
Seb Van Deun - PR Manager, Game Consultant & Company Troll
Seb was probably born with two dice in his left hand and some meeples in his right hand. “Is it a boy or a girl?” was responded to with “It’s a board gamer!” probably … Just to say he has been playing board games for a long, long time already.
He used to be in serious business selling laboratory applications but ever since he met with Rudy his life has taken a U-turn and he nowadays spends his days in his board game store “de Kolonisten” in Turnhout where he is damned to try out demo copies of new games, chit chat with people that share his passion for games and … play some more games. Can you imagine having this poor bastards life?
Within Game Brewer he does the PR and marketing work, annoys Rudy by trying to “break” the game systems he comes up with and is the all-round good guy (as you can see in the picture this last point is clearly exaggerated) every company needs. You know, the one that just walks around the building laughing and singing (God help us) …
Important notes
Production. A distinction must be made between games that are printed by Giochix directly and those that are printed “indirectly” by another publisher.
In the first case, we have direct control over the entire printing process and we can intervene quickly to adjust for any potential issues where necessary.
In the second case, we may only interact with the publisher that prints the game, without any ability to make immediate changes during the production process.
This means that once the games are printed by us, the shipping date that we have indicated in the project will be a reasonably safe deadline. While we are confident in our abilities to meet the designated timing, unfortunately, delays are always a possibility and this must be taken into account. In the second case, for “indirect” games, the shipping date is purely indicative.
It can happen also that the deliveries suffer a delay for reason out of our control and this should be taken in account.
-> Pixie Queen is printed by Game Brewer. It is therefore an “indirect” game.
Components. Game specifications and components are to be considered indicative of the final product and may be changed during final production.
Fairs. It is possible for the game's shipment to be scheduled to occur during a time frame close to a larger game fair, such as Essen Fair in Germany or Lucca Comics and Games in Italy. It is important to note that we will be showing/selling the game at these fairs independently of campaign participant shipment status. Attending these fair events is vital to the game's chances for success.
Order Canceling. An order can be canceled/refunded before the end of the campaign by clicking on the specific button in the order page or within 15 days from the order date by sending us an e-mail with the specific request. Besides these options, the order is considered as valid and is not cancelable/refundable.
Orders paid only partially will be awaiting full payment before being processed and shipped.
No Reward. Participation is bound to buy a reward. It can be done also during the pledge manager phase, if available. We can not accept money as a donation. Any participations that do not end with the purchase of an asset will be canceled and refunded.
Shipments. We ship by postal service or by supported courier (UPS, GLS, SDA, etc.)
We reserve the right to separate the contents of an order into different shipments or to merge the contents of different orders in the same shipment to improve the shipment's delivery speed and any required logistics management. If this happens, there will not be any additional costs to you as a customer (nor right to any refund).
Shipments made by courier or by insured postal service can be tracked and are considered insured.
Shipments made by the postal service are not insured and cannot be traced. While rare it is also possible that a package may be lost (0.1-1%). The insurance option for postal services costs an additional 3 euros.
Courier shipments may take about 1-2 days for Italy, 3-6 days for EU/US/Canada and 1-2 weeks for the rest of the world. Postal service shipments require about 1-2 weeks for Italy, 2-7 weeks for EU/US/Canada and 4-8 weeks for the rest of the world. Please note that the postal service in the same case can be slow and may suffer several weeks of additional delay. This happens very rarely but it is still a possibility and is out of our control. If you would like a faster delivery, or wish to avoid any risk of a long delay in the arrival of the package, please use a courier service.
Courier shipment insures against package loss, destruction and package damage. Postal service insurance insures against package loss or destruction. Insurance requires a customer claim to be made when the package is delivered. Ask the postman.
If the game failed to arrive because of your mistake (wrong address, recipient absent, not picking up at courier/postal warehouse, etc.), you will have to pay an additional shipping/warehousing cost for us to re-send/re-deliver your game. This cost will also include the return costs of the game. On the other hand, if the error is ours, we will send it again to you at our expense. If the package is lost or destroyed, we will reship it at our expense only if it was insured.
Important: Please note that we will not reship any game without first having investigated what happened to the first shipment. This can be processeed quickly through the courier service option, but may require an additional 1-5 weeks through the postal service.
We will no longer accept complaints related to the shipments of items of this campaign (package damaged, lost or missing contents) after 6 months from the date of shipment.
If you live outside of the European Community, custom's taxes may be added. This usually doesn't happen for boardgames; however, please check your country's rules and regulations as this aspect will not be our responsibility. (ver 15)
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