The Grizzled: Armistice Edition Game Review

I first played The Grizzled about ten years ago with the guys that make up my Wednesday night gaming group. I remember feeling a real sense of grief each time it hit the table—the game’s setting is World War I, and the playable characters are all drawn with a look of pain and sadness by the artist Tignous.

At its core, The Grizzled is a cooperative, limited communication hand management game. Players use their hand of cards to ensure they can escape the round by NOT playing three of the same card type to the middle of the table, be it symbols at the tops of each card or the landscape portrayed in each card’s imagery.

The limited deck made each play a little more tense, with dread setting in thanks to the game’s rules on how cards are distributed between missions as players try to deplete their hands before the deck runs out. The Grizzled: Armistice Edition adds a number of new mini-modules over a nine-game campaign, and through three plays, I’ll share some thoughts on the first third of that campaign in this spoiler-free review.

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