Pixie Queen

Pixie Queen by Rudy Seuntjns with art by Joc Art and published by Game Brewer is a strategic worker placement game with dark humor elements suitable for 2-5 players ages 12+ which takes about an hour and a half 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 ...