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Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon with foiled goodie cards
45m - 45m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
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I had not paid much attention to this prior to GenCon, but being it is a Bruno Cathala game I am happy I got a chance to play this. However, it doesn't live up to Five Tribes, Yamatai, or Abyss for me so I am not sure it has a place in my collection. In Ishtar you draft tiles in a rondel placing them on the board to gain gems or take a bonus action. With the gems you can gain a bonus on your player board for either in-game or end-of game abilities, or plant trees on the board. The trees are purely point cards, and I wish they had other bonuses like the Djinns/Specialists/Lords in Bruno's other games. I also felt like some of the tile placement on the board with building the gardens around the fountains, and how not only the total flowers but the total spaces in the flowerbeds counted towards end game scoring felt very strange. While the production is excellent and I'd be happy to play it if someone offered it, I'd always suggest Five Tribes or Yamatai over this.
cacol89
Very nice area-control game, with tile laying. The production is stellar. The game is more on the tactical side: try to profit from the situation, without making a move that sets others up for great moves. Unfortunately it's slightly longer than what it should be, and has to be played with 3 players (4 is too long, and 2 is too cut throat). Also, I'm afraid that the replayability is not great, and the rules explanation not hard but rather tricky, since there are areas inside areas.
Chabousse
Not my cup of tea, but will probably suit the newcomers in the hobby: it's simple, beautiful, offers some interesting choices and it is short.