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RPGMP3 (211 KP) rated Barker's Row in Tabletop Games

May 25, 2018

Barker's Row

2018 | Card Game

7.0

(1 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Excellent Art (1 more)

Nice Components

Repetitive After A While (0 more)

Fun Game - Especially With A Sideshow Performer In The Group

I got the Kickstarter for Barker's Row because I have friends who work in sideshow and I knew they would like the theme. The theme of the game is very strong through the game and it was fun to play with these folks.

Without them, the game is a straightforward card drafting and hand management affair where luck can have a strong effect on who wins in the end. If you have good Attraction cards with useful powers then you can make multiple calls and pull way ahead of everyone else. This is, however, true for a good number of games that involves an element of luck.

I really enjoyed playing this game because of the theme and because some of the cards are fun. The art is excellent and the pieces are good quality. The "Rube" meeples all have different people on them so you can fill your grandstand with all kinds of strange people coming to see your shows.

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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Race for the Galaxy in Tabletop Games

Mar 7, 2018

Race for the Galaxy

2007 | Card Game, Civilization, Economic, Science Fiction, Space

7.4

(15 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Race for the Galaxy Review

In Race for the Galaxy (which, along with San Juan, is the card game adaptation of Puerto Rico), each of the players controls his own intergalactic empire. In order to grow his empire, a player can explore (draw cards), develop new technologies, settle and conquer new worlds, consume goods, and produce new goods. Like in Puerto Rico, which actions are performed each round are based on which roles the players take. After the players choose roles, those roles are performed by all the players (with the person selecting the role getting a bonus). After all of the victory points have been collected, or (more likely) once a player has 12 cards in front of him, the game is over. At this point, each of the players adds up their total victory points from developments, worlds, and victory points earned through the course of the game, and the person with the most victory points wins.

Reviewer: Josh Edwards
Read the full review here: http://www.boardgamereviewsbyjosh.com/2011/02/race-for-galaxy-review.html

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Joven (172 KP) rated Kemet in Tabletop Games

Aug 12, 2019 (Updated Aug 12, 2019)

Kemet

2012 | Ancient, Fighting, Miniatures, Mythology

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Forces aggressive play creating a fast game with a lot of back and forth (2 more)

Awesome miniature models with great details

Well balanced with a smart combat system

Sheer variety of cards for power ups can make things a bit overwhelming at first (0 more)

Worship, wars and wrecked plans

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.