Aspens - Majestic Marvels: Review : Introduction : Aspens is a fun abstract game where players are focused on building a forest to manipulate the dice in their favour whether they are spreading trees, so the direction die does not affect them or adding more trees to a space to increase the possibility of gaining trees more often. In the base game players are trying to spread their trees creating closed off areas resulting in large cascades (cascades is a way to fill multiple locations at once by closing off access to the opponent). For the original review of the original game click here. In the original game each player scored each locations they had, in majestic marvels, the goal has now changed. Now the board is broken into sections with differing points. Gain the majority of a section first gain the points. This creates a much clearer objective for players and leans into a faster game more. Game Anatomy: Marvel Card: These cards are randomly drawn to eac...
Crayne: Fractured Empire - Review Information: Mechanics: Player Elimination, Head to Head, Deck Building, Simultaneous Player Age: 12+ Player Count: 1 - 6 Players Time to Play: 30 - 90 Minutes Publisher : Krunchy Games Game Designer: Chris Fielder Game Artist: Matthew Burger, Devin Hoyt, Luiz Prado Year Published: 2021 BGG Weight: 2.00 Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Deck building and head to head games are two of my favourite genres in board games. So I love when they are combined well. For my collection Shards of Infinity, Command of Nature and Power Rangers Deck Building Game come to mind instantly. Is Crayne going to be a new addition to this prestige? Crayne interestingly slows down the decision space by having each card played one at a time out of a hand of three cards, but speeds up the pace by mostly being simultaneous. In Crayne Fractured Empire, players are bu...