Looterz Card & Dice Game How to Play and Review

Looterz is a Take That, Card and Dice game.

Title: Looterz

Year Published: Looterz

Designer: Fel Barros, Marco Portugal

Publisher: CMON Limited

Players: 2-6

Game Time: 15-30 mins

Set-up Time: ~1 Min

Ages: 10+

Theme: Fantasy Dungeon

Mechanic: Take That, Dice Rolling

How to win: Gain the amount of Loot required.

Game Description

In Looterz, players are racing to collect the most loot possible by recruiting a team of Looterz. Your loot is never safe though as many Looterz have the ability to steal Loot from other players.

Set-Up

Choose a start player, give them 3 cards and give 4 to everyone else…

That is it!

Looterz Gameplay

Play goes clockwise with each turn consisting of 4 phases: Recruitment, Dungeon, Recruitment (again) and Sacrifice.

First Recruitment Phase

Players play a Looter from their hand or draw a card. If they play a Looter, they add a number of life tokens to the card equal to the number of Heart symbols.

Dungeon Phase

Players take one action with each of their Looterz in any order: Search, Attack or Use Special Ability.

Search – Roll 1 die per the Looterz current life total. If they roll equal to or under their power, gain a Loot token.

Attack – Declare a Looter as a target (even your own if you want) and roll 1 die per the attacking Looterz’s current life total. If they roll equal to or under their own power, deal Damage.

Use Ability – Any Looter with an ‘Activation’ ability, just do it.

Second Recruitment Phase

This is the same as the first. Play a Looter from your hand or draw a card. Remember to add a number of life tokens to the newly recruited Looter.

Sacrifice Phase

It’s not as harsh as it sounds. You just discard down to 3 Looterz in play and 10 cards in hand if required.

Play continues clockwise.

Game End

The game ends immediately when a player has 7-15 Loot depending on the player count.

Round-Up

A very simple yet enjoyable game with great production.

Every turn you have to choose to Recruit a Looter or Draw a Card… Twice. It’s not that easy to know what to do…

Also, Attack, Loot or Activate? Loot seems like the obvious choice unless your activation ability is really useful. But if you don’t attack opponents their big stompy types will have more dice to Attack/Loot with so what do you do?

Some of the abilities on the Looterz are very powerful including wiping all the Looterz in play, but it’s just silly fun, have a laugh!

Plus, Jester 😀 (and pretty much all my favourite character types :))

Looterz Rating

Excellent fun and crazy filler.

I give it 8/10

Looterz First Impressions September 2016

So this is good fun and while the cards and dice may make it look random, you can play what you have well and win… Although if you always roll high you won’t get any Loot from searching. But it’s only 20 mins so you probably won’t notice.

You do need to pay attention because if you leave a player unchecked they could easily get 3-4 Loot on their turn so you need to attack their Looters, and lower the number of dice they roll.

So the game has a bit of take-that with attacking and Looter abilities and even I don’t mind it 🙂

The art is fun and great, the bits are the same as other CMON games but impressive for the size of the game and the price… Although I’d prefer the (probably) cheaper cardboard ones from Arcadia Quest and a cheaper overall game. It’s just a filler after all.

Still, good fun and is currently my “take to every game day” game.

Jesta ThaRogue