Fireside Games will release two new games this summer Remnants, a real-time post-apocalyptic survival game, and Grackles, the abstract strategy game. The company also shared information on its annual Castle Panic in-store event.  

Designed by Justin De Witt, Matthew O’Malley, and Ben Rosset, Remnants sees players attempting to survive post-cataclysm by gathering supplies in the Badlands. Players use dice to roll to see how much wood, rope, metal, plastic, and cloth they can gather. They can also attempt to recover medicine, tools, and scrap. Then they take the resources and spend them on development cards to improve their settlement from raiders and mutants.

The box includes 1 game board, 16 custom dice, 45 resource tokens, 5 bonus tokens, 4 player boards, 12 loot tracking cubes, 1 dread track cube, 15 victory point tokens, 37 development cards, 2 survivor/training cards, 22 survivor tokens, 15 specialist tokens, 9 badlands cards, 6 dread cards, 3 boss cards, and 6 boss power up cards. The game is for 2 – 4 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in an hour. MSRP is $39.95. Release is June 27.

Grackles is a  birds-on-a-wire planning game where players plot to get their own colored birds lined up on a row of telephone wires. Each turn players and do one of 4 things: place a tile with 4 colored spots on telephone wire, connect 2 of their colored spots with matching birds, extend a line of birds already laid out, or rotate an unoccupied tile.  The game includes 180 acrylic bird tokens. The game is for 2 – 4 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 30 minutes. MSRP is $39.95. The game will premiere at Gen Con and release to trade in August.

Fireside will also be celebrating the third annual International Panic Day on June 2. The company is offering retailers Castle Panic event kits, which support 16 players and offer 3 game formats (casual, team, scenario). Each participant will receive a new promo card, and winners of team and scenario play will receive suede monster bags. Runners up receive monster-eye game totes. The kit comes with rewards as well as a sign-up sheet, and 2 demo copies of Castle Panic. Retailers can contact distributors for pricing.