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Initially Kemet can seem a little intimidating with a big selection of power-up cards with a wide variety of benefits and costs. There are so many paths to victory that it might take a couple of games to get your head around it. Once you do start to figure everything out though it's a really fun game, and the victory conditions and points system force players to be aggressive and lead to a real sense of power struggle between the factions.

I've only played this with the full 5 players and imagine it might be quite different with fewer, but I would definitely recommend people give it a go. It's also a blatant stargate rip-off, but I don't count that against it!

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Melika Jeddi (1145 KP) rated Boss Monster 2: The Next Level in Tabletop Games

Nov 7, 2019

Boss Monster 2: The Next Level

2015 | Card Game, City Building, Game Expansion, Fantasy, Video Game Theme

8.0

(5 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

It's quick to learn (4 more)

Each round only lasts about 15 minutes

There's a good amount of skill involved as well as just luck of the draw

The artwork is cute and simple

The game mechanics work well together

When you play with multiple players and get to the later stages of the game, it can become more about luck rather than skill. (0 more)

Simple But Fun

Boss Monster 2 is a really fun introduction to board games for people who want to expand beyond mainstream games like Uno or Scrabble, but don't want to commit to hour long games with complicated rules.

This is an improvement on the original, in my opinion, as it allows for more interaction between cards, and the new additions to the deck are really clever.

Building your own dungeon involves having to make tactical decisions, and although you're limited by which cards you draw, the main decider of the game is the order in which you play them.

This game is as fun with 2 players as it is with 4. I'd highly recommend it.