Published on 26 Apr, 2021
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Deck-building games are all the rage at the moment, but Signs Of The Sojourner is a very different kettle of cardboard fish. Instead of using wit and cunning to play a victorious hand, Echodog Games wistful tale of a young travelling merchant trying to keep their tiny village afloat is all about using empathy and understanding to forge new bonds with people you meet on the road.
The entire game is effectively a string of conversations you have with fellow travellers. These take the form of simple games of symbol-matching, and you ll need to use the cards in your hand correctly to advance the conversation and hopefully get a nice trinket at the end of it to take back to your village shop at the end of your caravan journey. You can very easily go it alone, but there s also a travelling caravan group your mum used to pal around