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Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Terraforming Mars in Tabletop Games

May 28, 2019

Terraforming Mars

2016 | Business / Industrial, Economic, Environmental, Science Fiction, Territory Building

8.7

(33 Ratings)

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Massively replayable (0 more)

Quite simply, my favourite game. Being able to play from solo, to five players, with hundreds of different technologies and businesses, means you will never have the same game twice. If I go away with work, I pack this before my clothes.

While the game can be a little difficult to play in the first game, the second, third etc games will be played much quicker, easier, and more enjoyable. Every one will be different, too. It typically takes about 90mins to 2h to play, in our experience, but there have been longer games - there is an element of luck with both the cards drawn, and what everyone else does! Holding on to a card because it needs the Temperature below -8 degrees, then seeing everyone else pumping the temperature from -12 to -6 means the card is (probably) worthless.

The science is obviously science-fiction but is based heavily in reality, albeit simplified, and very interesting on it's own right.

Expansions do add further flavours and variations, but the base game is absolutely able to stand on it's own two feet.

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Free Cell Classic

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The Windows favourite, now in the palm of your hand. Iversoft Solutions presents FreeCell Solitaire...

Per My Last Email

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Recommended for 4 or more players, Per My Last Email is a party game including mature content. Easy...

Exploding Kittens

7.6 (55 Ratings) Rate It

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Exploding Kittens is a card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and...

Johnny-Mac Willcox-Beney (10 KP) rated The Quiet Year in Tabletop Games

Jul 20, 2019

Gorgeous illustrations (5 more)

No prep needed

Good inspiration for post apocalyptic settings

Great first TTRPG

Cheap! ($6)

Replayable for different communities

Fantastic Post-Apocalyptic Story Gaming

Absolutely gorgeous single-session GMless story centered game. Players must navigate a year in a community after an apocalypse. Each week is represented by a card from a standard 52 card deck, each suit a season.
When a card is drawn it introduces a new choice to be made by a player about your community, with limited organised discussions about these choices replicating failures in communications in real communities. This choice is then represented on a map of your community that you build as you play.
This game is absolutely brilliant as a first TTRPG, a first session to build the setting for a post apocalyptic game in another system or just as a standalone one shot. It only takes one 2-3 hour session, some paper, pens, 6 sided dice, a standard deck of playing cards and the PDF. The questions it asks prompt very interesting ideas about your community to build somewhere that feels alive and fully fleshed out. A great buy!

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Radlands

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Radlands is a competitive, dueling card game about identifying fiercely powerful card synergies. ...

Griffin (480 KP) rated Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure in Tabletop Games

Feb 9, 2019

The art and visuals of the game are stunning! (1 more)

Cool concept to combine a deck builder with a tactical movement system

Lots of pieces that make setting up feel unnecessarily long (2 more)

A lot of luck for rather the right card is available on your turn

Gameplay lacks intuitive mechanics

Not un-fun but very clanky!(clunky)

While the deck building aspects and tactical gameplay are both decently designed on their own, the combination of the two makes for a rather clunky gameplay experience. Combine that with a very odd way to resolve the game and you get a game that is still decently fun, it just leaves you wanting more (but of a different game).

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Dean (6927 KP) rated Murder Mystery Mansion in Tabletop Games

Mar 29, 2018 (Updated Mar 29, 2018)

Murder Mystery Mansion

2018 | Deduction, Murder & Mystery

5.0

(2 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

More like Guess who than Cluedo (0 more)

Guess Who the Murderer is?

I stumbled across this board game in the pub and had high hopes of some sort of Cluedo with a twist type game. Unfortunately it's pretty much like Guess Who. One player picks a suspect, method, location and a motive card at random and hides them behind the Mansion art work.
The other player has so many steps to guess all four right. There are only about 6 choices for each category to choose from. For a longer game I think you can say the person has so many of the 4 guesses right without saying which. Given the title I hoped for more than a guessing game.