Khôra
Exactly what it looks like. You push markers up beige recessed tracks. There is a theme but there might as well not be. Zero player interaction. Basically a solo game. I'm bewildered by the popularity of these games. I probably feel the same way my dad did looking at punk music. 😂
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My son was diagnosed at 5 years old as autistic but now I say he is mentally disabled as he has little to nothing in common with people who I see being diagnosed as autistic.
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I haven't read any Dan Simmons, but I've heard good things about Ilium and Olympos. It reimagines the Trojan War with quantum physics and post-human "gods"... 🤷
Long day at Handycon:
Dead of Winter
Emberheart
Prototype
Formaggio
What the Heck?
Prey Another Day
Flip 7
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*faction
Quartermaster General Cold War
Designed for 3 factions and it handles kingmaking brilliantly as the 2nd place faction has to give the fraction in last place VPs if they fall over 20 behind. Therefore it becomes a 2:1 fight. Always cagey and competitive.
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Tantony
In an interview with Chris Wray at BGG, David Parlett recommended Tantony as one of his best games for four in partnerships.
It's quite different from any other standard card game I've played. You have to decide whether to give tricks away or keep them.
Highly recommended.
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Chicago & NorthWestern
Each company has to get its track to a home city and then to a western city to get bonus dividends. There's a sprint, driven by players banding up with each other through buying shares, which gives more money to build track.
Cube rails should be way more popular.
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We couldn't complete a crisis and were overrun, but we were really close and it was very satisfying overall.
Dead of Winter
I last played this in 2021. At the time I was grumpy about coops and ameritrash, but I've since got over that now that I'm bombarded with 4 hour worker placement point salads.
It was a lot more fun than I remember. Quicker and simpler and super thematic.
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
—G.K. Chesterton
absolutely!
Corvids
You're corvid birds picking through trash. Flip a card with tweezers. Then pick a VP trash card and any feather tokens on it. Steal cards using feathers if another player's bird symbol is uncovered. Each bird has different bonus cards.
Unusual. 🐦⬛
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Great phone for the money!
Moon Colony Bloodbath
Establish an engine of building cards to protect you from disasters that wipe out your space colony in slow motion. Last player standing wins.
You can see this was created by the designer of Dominion in that it's light but there's plenty of strategy.
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Nothing 3a Pro
"Do I enjoy my own podcast's Discord enough to scan my face to keep using it?" is a BioWare-level decision.
Merv
Fabio Lopiano recently made Shackleton Base which has been popular.
I tried this earlier design because of the theme.
It's a sophisticated mesh of tracks and worker placement.
It's not a huge monstrosity at 2.5 hours and sticks to the theme tolerably well, but it leaves me cold
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Burt Lancaster is great in The Swimmer (1968). So much better than the brain-dead westerns he was usually in.
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Hallertau
I love the number of resources and how you're trying to grow as much as you can on your fields. The separate sheep economy is also really clever.
Impressive how Rosenberg has made so many games about farming which are similar in feel but really quite different mechanically.
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I press "3" on my keyboard
Feels good to see snowdrops. 🕊️
Southern Rails
A connections game with no money. It's all about shared incentives. Fast and easy. I have seen it compared to Through the Desert or Blue Lagoon, but I might prefer it to both.
Very similar to Iberian Rails but without the distraction of money.
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*Easy* win in Fate of the Fellowship
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Great to see your posts here again.
