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  • We finally had our little group together and played wingspan - for such a popular but often polarized game I was eager and it turned out the game is … just Ok. The engine part never really materialized that much. The theme is neat but does little for me (I am a biologist, mind you). Overall its not a bad game but i would often choose other games in the collection.

    We also played Dominion, Ark Nova and Terraforming Mars - all are amazing as usual

    • I think Wingspan is a good game but its weight is a bit tricky. My group finds it too light, my family finds it too complicated... Fantastic production value tho.

      It's sad that Wingspan is the #1 in the Family category on bgg. From personal experience it's more like a "next-level" kind of game. Everdell at #3 isn't doing anyone any favors either!

    • LOVE terraforming mars! Have you played the card version? I thought that was fun (and easier to clean up) 😆

      • Unfortunately I have not. This is Ares, right?

        We just got an expansion for it, too! Its called Venus next! Will report when we have tried it :)

        I still want to make an organizer for Terraforming mars because its a mess in that box!

    • @dpunked I think of Wingspan as a stepping stone game - it introduces people to euro mechanisms like worker placement (kind of), card tableaus, special powers and so on but it's all stuff most gamers have seen more interestingly implemented. The production quality is good and the bird sanctuary setting is not as alienating as, say, the industrial revolution, or trading in the Mediterranean.

      • Yeah, I agree with that. If it would be the first game for someone, then its not bad. But once you have a small collection it would see the table less often

    • Wingspan is definitely one of those games that I would happily play if someone else wanted to because it's so dang charming! But the gameplay leaves something to be desired. I believe some of the expansions add a little more interactivity between players, but I'm not too sure.

  • First games in ages for me! Three of us, we started with Kingsburg, stopped for curry and rugby, then continued with Suburbia.

    I love the stories that end up happening in Suburbia - my town was an industrial hellhole that no-one wanted to live in, until I built a recycling plant which I then doubled and everyone loved me.

    My neighbour's capitalist mecca was similarly unpopular but his approach was to spend a fortune buying a PR firm, but he left it too late and his reputation never got high enough to escape last place.

  • Played a whole lot of Wingspan this past week. Taught it to two different groups. First was my copy with all the expansions minus Asia. Second was a friend's base edition. It remains a game I don't love, but don't mind playing. Also, played the first Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards game, which was pretty cool. Learned how to play Pollen, so looking forward to playing that soon. Most fun and interesting game I played was a solo one, surprisingly, called Resist! about fighting back against the Franco regime during the Spanish Civil War. Thematically, something I'm very interested in anyway, but the gameplay is tough and enjoyable.

  • Dorfromantik (3x, 2p): I ended up buying it because it won SdJ and I didn't have any tile-laying game anymore. The game starts slow and slowly adds new components and "achievements". Kind wish it was more goal oriented, to be honest. There's no win-condition, you just sum your points, the more points you have the faster you unlock the new components. Definitely want to play it some more but I can't say I loved it.

  • Had a busy week. The two of us played two scenarios of Gloomhaven JotL. I changed from my initial tank character to Voidwarden, who's got a buff/debuff and action granting/manipulation mechanic. She's a lot more fun for me and I feel like she works a little better with my partner's ranged character also. The last scenario was so close, we were 1 and 0 turns away from exhaustion when we won. Funnily enough we both got squeezed into a corner and surrounded by the boss's summons so the boss couldn't get to us.

    Was really hoping to be able to play more of Aeon's End but alas, the weekend went by really fast. Going to get an expansion for it next time I go to the shop.

    We also tried out Bread & Fred, a video game of two penguins connected by a rope climbing a mountain. I was hoping it would be hard and rewarding like Celeste, but it was mostly fun and frustrating due to us constantly jumping at the wrong time and falling off.... Would definitely recommend assist mode checkpoints if anyone else wants to try. It was a bit weird that they only supported the same input type for both, would have liked to use controller and let my SO use keyboard.

  • Scrabble!! And I lost terribly every time 😭 one of the games took 40 minutes and we only used 3/4 of the board, that was miserable

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