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