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Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

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  1. 6.5 out of 10

    This game looks good, but the gameplay was lacking. There was just not enough tension or enough interesting choices to make.

  2. 9 out of 10

    It's complex, you must be able to spend some hours playing it, great level of strategy, it's very thematic because you really feel you are an illusionist at the 19th century urban life.

  3. 7 out of 10

    Definitely some fun mechanisms in Trickerion. I vastly prefer it with the Dark Alley cards and magician powers. Helps add quite a bit to the game, IMO. Trickerion is fun, but it also falls into some euro game traps. The market system is awkward and gamey just for the sake of being gamey, it seems. And the main source of points, performances, is very whatever. It works. But it feels so half-baked and under-developed. It seems like the main thrust of the game (performing tricks) should be more interesting and slightly less abstract, somehow. To perform tricks, we stick some tokens on cards that have a variety spatial arrangements. But the arrangements almost never affect gameplay. The variety almost seems superfluous. You can place a magician to fire off a card with tokens on it, and we get points. The player firing off the card gets some small bonuses for doing it. But the trick bonuses are usually more substantial. It feels so vaguely thematic and like there's a lot of steps for minor differences in point bonuses. The degree to which the trick descriptions themselves have been themed really makes me want the performances to feel more interesting as well.

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Trickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional world inspired by the late 19th century urban life and culture, spiced with a pinch of supernatural.

Players take on the roles of rival stage illusionists, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They are striving for fortune and fame in a competition hosted by a legendary magician, looking for a successor worthy of the mighty Trickerion Stone, which is fabled to grant supernatural power to its owner.

Using worker placement and simultaneous action selection mechanisms, the Illusionists and their teams of helpers — the Engineer, the Assistant, the Manager, and a handful of Apprentices – obtain blueprints and components for increasingly complex magic tricks, expand the team and set up performances by visiting the Downtown, Dark Alley, Market Row and Theater locations on the main game board depicting a late 19th century cityscape.

The tricks are stored and prepared on the Magician’s own Workshop game board, while the performances themselves take place at the Theater in the form of a tile placement mini-game with lots of player interaction. The performances yield Fame points and Coins to their owners based on the tricks they consist of. Fame points have multiple uses, but they also serve as a win condition – After turn 7, when the last Performance card is revealed, the game ends and the illusionist with the most Fame points wins.

The game offers 48 different Tricks to be learned from the Optical, Spiritual, Mechanical and Escape categories, over 90 character abilities, and 40 Special Assignment cards that influence the actions taken at the various game locations. The base game can be expanded with two optional rule modules to add further strategic depth to the game.

The "Dark Alley" expansion included in the base game adds a new location to the game. It also comes with 48 new Special Assignment cards, a new tier of Tricks, and 27 Prophecy tokens that can alter certain game rules turn by turn, giving the game additional variety.

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

60m – 180m
Designer

Viktor Peter, Richard Amann
Mechanics

Action Points, Action Queue, Catch the Leader, Turn Order: Stat-Based, Dice Rolling, Simultaneous Action Selection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement
Theme

Post-Napoleonic
Publisher

APE Games, Corax Games, Maldito Games, Mindclash Games
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