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On an ocean world, even enemies must play fair. You and your rival compete for control of the four flotillas, the last remnant of old Earth. Strike cunning deals, build stable ground, and clean the ocean. Then, you will truly lead Seastead!
With the survival of humanity in the balance, sabotaging your rival outright would put too much at risk! So in Seastead, many of your actions will also help your opponent; you just have to make sure you don’t help them too much.
Each turn, you either dive to gain resources or build a building from your player mat with your resources. Whenever you dive, you draw a card with two different resource collections from which to choose, with the resources you don’t pick going to your opponent! When you construct a building, add it to one of the four central flotilla tiles, opening up bonuses and abilities — just try to use them before your opponent can!
Seastead contains double-sided flotilla tiles, a variety of specialist cards, and multiple building paths to create endless strategies to explore!
—description from publisher
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players |
| Play Time | 30m |
| Designer | Ian Cooper (I), Jan M. Gonzalez |
| Publisher | WizKids |
alfseegert
Seastead is a smart, intricate, and enjoyable location-grabber game. There are lots of tough and interesting decisions to make, usually each having multiple impacts. It offers impressive depth (aptly enough for its flooded-world theme) in a short 2-player game. Bonus: components are tops. The custom box insert is amazing -- there's a whole lot of game that fits (very well) inside a relatively small box. The game contains many extras for heightened complexity and replayability. A high-quality production all around and I quite liked playing.
eellisd
Very few interesting decisions past the first few turns. Hideous run away leader issues. Tacked on theme leaves many parts feeling disjointed.
Jessy C
Very symmetrical nature of all the actions makes for a little bit of humdrum, but the shortness, theme, and components carry it as long as you're not playing multiple times in a row.