Back to the boardgame café. With
images; cc-by-sa on
everything.
We started the evening with
Exploding Kittens,
which seemed to me rather too simplistic. Like Cards against Humanity,
it relies on the players to form a mutual consensus that This Is
Funny, and doesn't have much to offer apart from breaking of taboos.
It's a pity that many potential new boardgamers will meet this as
their first modern game, and perhaps never realise that there are
games which are actually interesting to play too.
Next was Terra,
which I'd rejected as an Essen purchase for being too simple, and
having now tried it I agree: it didn't take anything like the
threatened 45-60 minutes, and the actual gameplay is not at all bad,
but this is still basically a trivia game. If I were looking for a
party game I could persuade non-gamers to try, I might well go for
something like this.
Then
Alien Frontiers
again. I enjoyed it a lot more this time, treating it as a dice
exercise rather than as a game about the colonisation of Mars, and we
were all in potentially winning positions until the end. This has
climbed up my list to the "probable purchase" level, though obviously
not any time soon.
Finally,
Roll for It!,
which we'd seen played on TableTop by people with no grasp of
probability. It's not a terrible game, but I don't think my life will
be any poorer if I never play it again.
Only one game I plan to buy, but I enjoyed three out of four, so
that's a good evening even without considering the company.
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