It’s a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe.
Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It’s a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.
The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other.
The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.
1/ Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.
2/ Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.
3/ Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.
At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.
—description from the publisher
Callomac
The original, It's a Wonderful World, is one of my favorite games. But the new version, with the "I pick you choose" mechanic, really ruins the original game. Being able to play cards face down and having cards that are harmful to your kingdom, really ruin your ability to generate any sort of functional engine, making this mostly a bluffing and screw-your-opponent game, and really ruins it for me. I'd never play this over the original and am sorry I wasted money buying it.
Bergil
First play, not sure yet with the new modules and « versus draft » additions, regarding to the previous IWW gameplay. Need to play it more !
Bimireul
Igual pensabas que iba a ser una recreación del world para que jueguen dos así un poco chapuza y tal pero nah nah, una locura me encanta, me parece incluso mas interesante que el world a ratos. La estética de las cartas y el concepto medieval me gusta 1000 veces mas que su juego padre, eso seguro.