So far, this is living up to its reputation as one of the best of the games to come out of Essen. It also figures to be extremely replayable, as 6 of the 8 locations can be shuffled prior to each game, along with a bunch of the spaces on them. In any event, the game probably plays just as well with 3 as with 4 and it shouldn’t be hard to finish a 3-player game in less than 2 hours. The basic concepts work very well and, with a bit of experience, it doesn’t take too long.
There’s lots of details and all sorts of things you can do, but it never feels overwhelming. Most moves let you power up your worker (the workers are dice and the number of pips show their power) and using multiple dice and/or more powerful workers lets you accomplish more at each location. Mechanically, the game has a rondel of sorts (of 8 separate actions), only you have 3 or 4 workers out there, any one of which can advance 1 to 3 spaces to carry out the action there. Teotihuacan – Help plan the mighty Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan! Your family sends out workers to assist, and these workers gain in experience, until they achieve enough knowledge to ascend to the heavens themselves! Or, at least, that’s my justification for what’s happening. In a strong year, this is unquestionably the highlight and I’m always ready to play it again. Still, it never drags and downtime isn’t an issue with experience, we’ve been able to get this down to 2 hours, which is perfect for a game of this weight. On the downside, the production isn’t up to eggert’s usual standards and the game occasionally runs long. Playing cards to different slots seems a lot like Pfister’s earlier Mombasa, but I find the decisions harder here and a good deal of enjoyable planning is required to get it right. There are a lot of different paths to victory and we continue to discover new ones. Then, you try to meet objectives on cards you acquired earlier (to allow you to put those cards in your hand or gain their abilities) and scout unrestored areas of the city (which yields resources and points). Every turn, you allocate three of your cards to gather resources or carry out actions. You’re tasked with doing the best job of restoring Hong Kong, following a catastrophic power failure. Blackout: Hong Kong – Alexander Pfister and eggertspiele continue to be an unbeatable combination. They’re given in order of preference, beginning with my Game of the Year:ġ. Here’s hoping to an equally good crop of titles during 2019!įor each game, I’ve provided a brief description, my reasons for liking them, and my OG rating for each one. Each of these games are ones that I’d happily play and suggest. I discovered five games that I’d categorize as “great”, which is quite a healthy total, particularly given the lower number of games that I was able to sample, when compared to other years. Overall, I found 2018 very much to my liking. Here are my top 12 games from last year, my Dirty Dozen, if you will. So this is coming out later than I’d planned, but hopefully most of you will still find it of interest. Then, last month, came the Meeples Choice Awards, which I run every year, and I was devoting my time to that. That made it hard to get to my computer and life basically got put on hold. Still, I was getting ready to write this article during April when a mishap led to a torn tendon in my knee.
The ever increasing number of interesting games released each year, combined with the reduced amount of gaming I’m able to get in these days, means that I’m well into the next year before I have a good feel for what my favorites truly are. Well, first of all, it takes a while to try enough games from a calendar year to make such a list be accurate. Why am I coming out with an article listing my favorite 2018 titles at this late date?
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