Any tips, recommendations, warnings or cool sessions you played last week?
We mainly played Ark Nova. We bought the game a couple of weeks ago but it was a bit daunting to crack it open. Boy am I glad I did it. An absolutely amazing game. Its so much fun with many interesting decisions and a nice flow. It seems very cerebral with some decisions taking some time. I think we did 5 games during the week (2 players)
We also played some splendor duel its just a solid 2player
Another game we played with 6 players was Virus! which is a simple yet entertaining game. The single game was at least 2 hours and we finished a bottle of pacharan 🤪
We played a lot of the Isofarian guard last week, finished chapter 2 from the first campaign. They announced a couple of changes to the rules last week, and we really like them.
We also had our first introduction to Arnak at some friends. I like it, but I feel that you have to do too much, without becoming good at anything.
Lastly we finally git around continuing our alphabet challenge with Noria and Onirim :D
Played Imperium Legends in multiplayer for the first time (3 players) , i played with the Qin for the first time and didnt enjoy it as much as i enjoy other factions, too much restrictions and cards that need other cards or are restrictive of other cards you have in play. My turns took more time than i would like to. I dont know if my friends enjoyed the game as much as i expected, but it was a good game.
Also played Discworld Ank-Morpork for the first time and had a really good time, i think that the mechanics on the board work well enough (moving minions, buildings, trouble and killing) and the cards are fun enough too, some really crazy effects on there. But there are two things i really did not like: Events can go crazy on you, i lost in two events played in the same turn near the end 50% of all the money i had made in the whole game, it was too much, i knew at that point that i had no way to complete my objective nor win by points. Also your actions being restricted to random cards can make the game really one sided at times, if you dont draw decent cards with the actions you need you are simply always behind, and having cards that do actions and then let you play another card is just so much better 99% of the time. There were 3 turns in a row where my two friends had a card with an additional play at least and i didnt so i just played a single card and passed and they played 2 to 4 cards, that just was even less fun than when i lost 50% of what i had as i just wasnt even playing the game in comparison. All things said, its still a pretty fun game i would play again, but its really luck based.
Got plays of Foundations of Rome and Clank! in.
Also played Rear Window by Prospero Hall. It’s roughly a Mysterium-style game themed after the Hitchcock movie. The one twist which probably should be skipped for the first play is that the clue giver might be a secret traitor.
Clank is just amazing, love it! The new clank catacombs is also a really nice fresh experience!
I never tried mysterium, is it like a detective game? If it is, it sounds interesting! Do you have a recommendation for which game to check out for the first time? We typically play with 2-4 players
The premise of Mysterium is that one player is a recently deceased murder victim who is trying to clue to the players who killed him, where it happened and with what murder weapon through a seance. But it being a seance, the ghost gives clues in the form of picture cards that have lots of different images (think Dixit) and the players have to guess what item on the image is relevant to what the ghost is trying to communicate.
Mysterium is available in digital versions so it’d be pretty inexpensive to try out. I’ve only played Rear Window the one time. I think Read Window might be a bit more approachable and I think shorter play time but I think I might still prefer Mysterium overall.
Played a few good ones this past week.
- Beast - 4 Players. This was our first time playing. I played as a beast (Hogbad) and was slain by the hunters on the 3rd Day. Would definitely play again.
- Dark Venture: Battle of the Ancients - Solo. Very excited to play this a ton more. Plays solo, co-op, and competitive. I did the first scenario in the solo campaign a few times to get some of the basic concepts, and because the Auto-Enemy Bohmerk kept killing my Varpen warriors.
- Wingspan - 2 Players. Always a relaxing, enjoyable experience. I won this time, which is rare.
I really should try dark venture, I like scifi and it seems nice with almost any number of players. So you can decide before play if it is competitive or coop?
Yeah, you decide beforehand. There are different map setups based on which type of game you’ll be playing.
If you want to try it, order quick. Think they’re just about out of copies (expansions already gone).
