IDW Games and Pandasaurus Games have announced the new cat stacking game Cat Tower, and the Trust No One expansion for its X-Files board game.

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Cat Tower is a dexterity-based, tower-building game of stacking unwieldy papercraft cats in various positions based on the role of a custom die.  The players’ goal is to get all their cats stacked on the tower first, but if the tower tumbles before completion, they get added back to that players’ cat pile. Players must also watch out of the “Fatty Catty” cards, which require a flip of a cat token, which may require extra moves. There is an alternate set of rules that includes a speed challenge.  The game is for 2 - 6 players, ages 6 and up, and plays in 15 -20 minutes. MSRP is $20.00. Release is planned for December or January.

The X-Files: Trust No One expansion adds new agents, a new investigative location and a new “Monster of the Week” mechanic which includes some of the show’s most iconic villains (Tooms, Flukeman, the Peacocks). 

The box contains 5 Agent pawns, 4 Trail tokens, 4 Blockade tokens, 5 Agent credentials, 60 X-Files cards, 25 Agent cards, 25 Syndicate cards, a game board, and a rule book.  As an expansion, it requires the base game to play (see “IDW to Publish 'The X-Files Board Game'”). MSRP is $29.99. Release is planned for November 27.