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dddoni
A huge set of mechanisms with a lot of combo possibility. I love the latter, not so much the former. Reminds me of Gugong, just more complex. Especially the upper part of the board with the travelling. Worker placement is not tight, deck building is even lighter than the one in Dune Imperium. Set collection is meh, engine building is weak. Resource management is also weak, you rarely need specific resources. I love the dice management in it tho. I don't like the theme, nor does it come through. Very abstract buildings, and every tile and card is just abstract in general, some have nice art on it, but that's as far as the theme gets.
cbazler
I have mixed feelings. The game is a bit of a mess: an almost completely illegible board, an inscrutable theme, confusing iconography, and a ridiculously long rulebook made this a pain to learn (and teach). All of these could have been simplified or streamlined to aid ease of play. Once you get the gameplay down, it's good, not great. You want to score sets of weird ghost thingies or ugly monster cards as they'll score on your little rock path or whatever, and you probably want to send your creepy "winky-eyed" cyclopses to the travel-log track to score your little fish cards. Again, the bizarre theme is a real hindrance here: I have no idea and no interest in what you're supposed to be doing in this game. Whatever. Decisions are interesting, I guess.
agentpatman
It took awhile to get through the rule book for not much complexity. I guess it went in depth really well so it’s a bit overdone but I’m a good way. Just faster to learn via video or in person. Game itself is interesting. Nothing mechanical but just in the pure amount of stuff. All cards, tiles, resources all deal with the same symbology. It’s a massive resource conversion point salad game. If your into that I can’t think of one like this. I did expect there to be some twist or deck building but really it’s just more stuff that gives you more stuff. Points in the end are awarded for pretty much everything. Not sure yet if you can go for one bigger strategy or have to do a little of everything to do well. The dice are more manipulation with no rolling. That was also a bit unexpected. The 4 main actions and crossing your dice across the river is interesting. It pairs well with the cards giving you actions. Production is off the charts. Excellent components and quality. Silk printed wood components, thick cardboard. Feels like a lacerda for half the price. Lacking in the complexity and gameplay perspective. Overall we really enjoyed it because we like resource conversion and point salad. I did expect there to be more mechanics, deck building, dice rolling but none of that was found here. Hopefully we can get it to the table for a few sessions at a time because the reading time is high.