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Rat On A Skateboard

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Ratty is back in his MOST ANTICIPATED adventure ever to hit iOS! Grab that board and get ready for...

Solitaire Collection - Game

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Enjoy the most popular solitaire card games in one single app: Klondike and Pyramid! Discover the...

Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Trajan in Tabletop Games

Mar 7, 2018

Trajan

2011 | Ancient, Political

8.0

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Trajan

I love Eurogames, and Trajan has many of the components of a strong Eurogame. I find the mancala mechanic very interesting and refreshing. I like how each player has his own board and can work on different strategies to win. It seems like usually players win by focusing on one or two sections of the main game board. I’ve seen people win by using all different combinations of sections, they seem like they can all be used as part of a winning strategy. I appreciate the variety and how the sections seem fairly. I generally dislike games that are so formulaic that a player can find a perfect strategy and use that strategy every time with success. I appreciate the fluidity of Trajan in that way.

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Clans of Caledonia

7.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Clans of Caledonia is a mid-to-heavy economic game set in 19th-century Scotland. At this time,...

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Steph (468 KP) rated Betrayal at House on the Hill in Tabletop Games

Jul 19, 2018

Betrayal at House on the Hill

2004 | Adventure, Exploration, Horror, Miniatures

8.3

(56 Ratings)

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A lot of people I know really like this game, but I am not a big fan. I've played it four or five times- I keep giving it another chance and I just don't think it deserves one. The good thing is it has a lot of replayability with all of the different scenarios. The bad- this game has a LOT of down time. When it isn't your turn, it is incredibly boring. There's not a lot of big decisions or thought to even be made on your turn, so you have about 30 seconds of doing something interesting and then 10-15 minutes of waiting around before it's your turn again (especially if people haven't played before). The game is very high variance- it really depends on a lot of random elements. It is the randomness more than anything you actually strategize during the game to do that determines what happens in the end. It's a really simple semi-cooperative board game. If you are newer to board games and want to play something simple, I would recommend it. If you're expecting a challenging horror board game with a traitor mechanic, I really would not.

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Akward (448 KP) Jul 20, 2018

I completely agree with what you've said. I honestly view it as a gateway game between Catan and more complicated games. Our group played it religiously for a few months, and I will say that it did get better with a more experienced group. After a short while, the turns could be done in 2-3 minutes (even with a 6 player group), so there was much less downtime. But there's no way around the fact that it is poorly balanced, which is ultimately what turned our group off.

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