Yesterday we played three games. The theme was co-op games. We started with Forbidden Desert, which we lost.
Next we violated the theme and kicked the tires on Among the Stars. It was billed as 7 Wonders in space. The general opinion was that it was a keeper, but it really wasn’t that much of a 7 Wonders clone beyond the card passing mechanism. I will probably proceed to buy the expansions. (Mark: “we” didn’t win).
Lastly we played Alien Uprising. As you may recall from our Dragonflight reports, this game is VERY hard even at the easiest setting. So hard that one of the designers has come out with his house rules to ease things a bit. To this I added one additional house rule which seemed (at least to me) to be the way it should have been designed from the beginning. With these changes in place we barely won a "90 minute" game in 5 hours, making a lot of mistakes along the way. I love the theme of this game, but it just screams for someone to fix it - take the same components and simplify the rules and arrange them better. There is a lot of fiddly chrome that adds time without adding to core challenge.
The next game day is presently scheduled for October 11th. Please let me know if you will be able to attend.
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