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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Ticket to Ride: Europe in Tabletop Games

Mar 7, 2018

Ticket to Ride: Europe

2005 | Transportation, Travel

8.3

(20 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

I have owned Ticket to Ride: Europe for a long time and it’s not a game that I will be removing from my collection anytime soon. The first time I played the game I was amazed at how quickly the rules could be learned. It takes little time for you to start understanding the nuances of this game. Whenever I teach any edition of Ticket to Ride to someone who hasn’t played board games for years, I tell them that I can get them to completely understand this game in three rounds. I have yet to fail at doing so. The game doesn’t bog down with complicated calculations or actions. With four simple choices for actions each turn, game play moves at a lightning pace. I have found very few people that don’t like the game after playing it numerous times. This is a great accomplishment for any game.

Reviewer: Tyler Nichols
Read the full review here: https://www.boardgamequest.com/ticket-to-ride-europe-board-game-review/

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Akward (448 KP) rated Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization in Tabletop Games

Jun 15, 2018

Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization

2015 | Card Game, Civilization, Economic

8.0

(7 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

The most Civilization board game (2 more)

There is a ton of complexity that will keep it interesting for a long time

Variation of gameplay style (war, culture, technology, wonders)

The mechanics will likely be too much for most people (1 more)

A handful of the cards are not balanced well

Civilization in Boardgame Form

Do you like the video game Civilization? Then you will absolutely love this board game. Do you not love intense Euro strategy games? Then you will probably hate this game.

This game is very intense. There are a lot of mechanics, and a lot to learn. It follows the basic mechanics of the Civilization video game fairly closely, but even veteran Civ players took a while to learn it.

You also have to be comfortable with the game taking all day. The time estimate on the box is very wrong. Our first game took us three hours, and we only made it through the first age (there are three).

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Jumanji: The Game in Tabletop Games

May 24, 2020

Jumanji: The Game

2018 | Adventure, Dice Game, Entertainment, Fantasy

6.8

(8 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Far too simple

I've been eyeing this game up for quite some time, I mean who wouldn't want a board game like the original in the film? Sadly however when I got a chance to play this (fortunately for free), I was hugely disappointed.

This game looks great, but it's the gameplay that lets this down massively. There are some nods to the original film but the problem is that the gameplay is just far too simple. Only younger children could really get a kick out of this for long. It's just a basic game involving rolling dice and after playing 2 rather short games, we called it a day and quite frankly, wouldn't miss playing it again. I appreciate you can't make a board game exactly like the game in the film, but they really could've tried to make something a little more exciting and interesting. Definitely not one I'd advise paying full price for!