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Peter Russell (61 KP) rated Scythe in Tabletop Games

Mar 13, 2019  
Scythe
Scythe
2016 | Civilization, Economic, Fighting, Miniatures, Science Fiction
9
8.3 (26 Ratings)
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So, so much (0 more)
Can be a bit daunting to take on the rulebook (0 more)
The best mix of many board games
This game has so much going for it and by far is my favorite game on my shelf right now. First off, just looking at and opening the box, the artwork is fantastic. I bought the artbook for the game just because I wanted more of the art. Next, mechanics of the game. Each player has a choice of what unique pair of actions they will take in a turn. A turn consists of:
 1) Choosing a block of actions that said player had not chosen last turn
2) Choosing a top level action from chosen block
3) choosing a bottom level action of chosen block.


These action range from creating and placing workers, mechs or buildings, resource generation, or doing something that would initiate combat (usually moving). There are many different strategies to win, whether through ecnomics or military domination. Each play through is unique.
I highly recommend getting all expansions for uncreased play variety as well as the Broken Token organizer, which reduces setup time for 30 minutes to 5 minutes. Other items that really enhance the gameplay are metal coins as well as realistic resources from stonemaier games
  
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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Above and Below in Tabletop Games

Mar 20, 2018  
Above and Below
Above and Below
2015 | Adventure, Book, City Building, Economic, Exploration
9
8.3 (12 Ratings)
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The Art is exceptional (3 more)
the gameplay itself
the characters you use to build your village
The story aspect for exploring
I Love this game.... Ryan Laukat does amazing work.
This game is a great mix of a lot of ingenious aspects. You are leader of a village, and you have people in your village that not only have different skills and also look different. You want to utilize them to do the things they are good at, but just like in life sometimes you have to send a suboptimal person to accomplish something the village needs. And the exploration aspect is so much fun. each time to go exploring is a different short story predicated on the drawing of a card. then then you have to make a choice about what to do on that journey, and it might have dire consequences or or it might be light and fluffy. So it's sometimes hard to make a decision based on how many resources to send down to make sure everything works out, but then you can't do as much on the surface. The game is relatively short and makes us want to keep playing. which is the sign of a great game. Also check out near and far which is the sequel to this game.
  
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Akward (448 KP) Aug 4, 2018

I'm in the opposite boat: I've played Above and Below, and I'm interested in how it compares to Near and Far.
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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) Aug 4, 2018

Now that I’ve played near and far. Near and far is better. But has more going on and more storytelling. Above and below focuses more on above with below as an add-on. It’s definately the precursor. Near and far is far better.