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I've had one game of Unmatched from @restorationgames before and I enjoyed it well enough. I have also tended to avoid it because it's obviously a collectible/mix-and-match type thing and that is a slippery slope for people like me who like completeness of things

I did however pick a couple of sets up in a sale a while back and got them on the table for the first time yesterday. Game 1 was Black Widow vs Winter Soldier which was a pretty one-sided affair truth be told

But the idea of Ms Marvel vs Squirrel Girl was too intriguing a prospect to pass up so we went again for what proved to be a much more even game for a good while.

Ultimately my decision to neglect spending good attack cards on piles of squirrels was my undoing.

It definitely felt like map layout and sidekick powers can make a difference. I'd be interested in mixing the two sets to play again though

Any Unmatched recommendations I need to desperately restrain myself from buying?

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I've had one game of Unmatched from @restorationgames before and I enjoyed it well enough. I have also tended to avoid it because it's obviously a collectible/mix-and-match type thing and that is a slippery slope for people like me who like completeness of things

I did however pick a couple of sets up in a sale a while back and got them on the table for the first time yesterday. Game 1 was Black Widow vs Winter Soldier which was a pretty one-sided affair truth be told

But the idea of Ms Marvel vs Squirrel Girl was too intriguing a prospect to pass up so we went again for what proved to be a much more even game for a good while.

Ultimately my decision to neglect spending good attack cards on piles of squirrels was my undoing.

It definitely felt like map layout and sidekick powers can make a difference. I'd be interested in mixing the two sets to play again though

Any Unmatched recommendations I need to desperately restrain myself from buying?

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Aaaand we're done and here's a summary of the whole last 10 days as @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews and I have each pitched 10 games we'd recommend to start a collection if you're making your first steps into the hobby

My list was:

Hues and cues (party/deduction) £20
A Gentle Rain (solo gaming) £21
Brilliant (roll n write) £16
Quacks (bag builder) £28
Carcassonne (tile laying) £27
Ticket to Ride Europe (set collection) £31
Sea Salt (card game) £13
Sagrada (dice placement) £32
Flamecraft (worker placement) £30
Flip 7 (push your luck) £10

So to buy the whole lot brand new is £231 (based on BoardGamePrices data when we finalised the list). It's not cheap but there's a lot of fun to be had there, and a range of different styles of games to help you figure out what you like

Hannah picked:
Wingspan **
It's a Wonderful World
Llamaland
Sagrada
Horrified **
King of Tokyo (dark edition)
Space Base
Cascadia **
Hero Realms

And I've marked up the 3 I could easily have picked off her list as great suggestions

While we shouldn't talk about "winning" or otherwise, I hope what we've shown is there's a bunch of variety for anyone starting out on this journey, and some reminders of games that hold their own after a good while

Hopefully you've enjoyed the series as much as we have, and thanks for watching along!

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Aaaand we're done and here's a summary of the whole last 10 days as @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews and I have each pitched 10 games we'd recommend to start a collection if you're making your first steps into the hobby

My list was:

Hues and cues (party/deduction) £20
A Gentle Rain (solo gaming) £21
Brilliant (roll n write) £16
Quacks (bag builder) £28
Carcassonne (tile laying) £27
Ticket to Ride Europe (set collection) £31
Sea Salt (card game) £13
Sagrada (dice placement) £32
Flamecraft (worker placement) £30
Flip 7 (push your luck) £10

So to buy the whole lot brand new is £231 (based on BoardGamePrices data when we finalised the list). It's not cheap but there's a lot of fun to be had there, and a range of different styles of games to help you figure out what you like

Hannah picked:
Wingspan **
It's a Wonderful World
Llamaland
Sagrada
Horrified **
King of Tokyo (dark edition)
Space Base
Cascadia **
Hero Realms

And I've marked up the 3 I could easily have picked off her list as great suggestions

While we shouldn't talk about "winning" or otherwise, I hope what we've shown is there's a bunch of variety for anyone starting out on this journey, and some reminders of games that hold their own after a good while

Hopefully you've enjoyed the series as much as we have, and thanks for watching along!

#boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

What better way to kickstart a hot and sunny bank holiday weekend than by learning the solo rules to a Vital Lacerda game about climate change?

Agreed - there is no better way which is why CO2 from @giochix hit the table

Another one we can tick off the "too intimidating pile" though I think the Lacerda pedigree rightly made me a little uneasy

I will admit I muddled through a fair amount of the first round and a half - lots of rulebook checking, losing track of where I was up to etc but it DID start to flow pretty coherently towards the end

There's a lot around scarcity here - one main action and up to 3 additional actions per turn, four turns per round and a total of 4 rounds. The cleanup steps introduce a lot of bad things (fossil fuels kicking out way too much CO2 for anyone's liking) and unclaimed environmental goals cost you points (as does reducing CO2 levels). Which isn't immediately terrible until you realise that the game is instantly over if you drop below 0 points

Lots of plates to spin here and an actual sense of urgency injected into the whole thing which again feels very well aligned with the theme.

I played Lisboa at AireCon and just kinda sat back at the end wondering how you conceive of a game that intricate, let alone finesse the design. I think that applies here too.

On the surface you're trying to build renewable energy fast enough that you're not overwhelmed by fossil fuel. That energy costs you resources to build - fair enough. But the balance of living just within your means makes it really tense throughout.

This may be a little bit of a brain dump of incoherent first impressions (apologies - it's been a week) but I'm definitely impressed with what's perhaps a poor relation of Lacerda games overall

Happy weekend!

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What better way to kickstart a hot and sunny bank holiday weekend than by learning the solo rules to a Vital Lacerda game about climate change?

Agreed - there is no better way which is why CO2 from @giochix hit the table

Another one we can tick off the "too intimidating pile" though I think the Lacerda pedigree rightly made me a little uneasy

I will admit I muddled through a fair amount of the first round and a half - lots of rulebook checking, losing track of where I was up to etc but it DID start to flow pretty coherently towards the end

There's a lot around scarcity here - one main action and up to 3 additional actions per turn, four turns per round and a total of 4 rounds. The cleanup steps introduce a lot of bad things (fossil fuels kicking out way too much CO2 for anyone's liking) and unclaimed environmental goals cost you points (as does reducing CO2 levels). Which isn't immediately terrible until you realise that the game is instantly over if you drop below 0 points

Lots of plates to spin here and an actual sense of urgency injected into the whole thing which again feels very well aligned with the theme.

I played Lisboa at AireCon and just kinda sat back at the end wondering how you conceive of a game that intricate, let alone finesse the design. I think that applies here too.

On the surface you're trying to build renewable energy fast enough that you're not overwhelmed by fossil fuel. That energy costs you resources to build - fair enough. But the balance of living just within your means makes it really tense throughout.

This may be a little bit of a brain dump of incoherent first impressions (apologies - it's been a week) but I'm definitely impressed with what's perhaps a poor relation of Lacerda games overall

Happy weekend!

#boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

What better way to kickstart a hot and sunny bank holiday weekend than by learning the solo rules to a Vital Lacerda game about climate change?

Agreed - there is no better way which is why CO2 from @giochix hit the table

Another one we can tick off the "too intimidating pile" though I think the Lacerda pedigree rightly made me a little uneasy

I will admit I muddled through a fair amount of the first round and a half - lots of rulebook checking, losing track of where I was up to etc but it DID start to flow pretty coherently towards the end

There's a lot around scarcity here - one main action and up to 3 additional actions per turn, four turns per round and a total of 4 rounds. The cleanup steps introduce a lot of bad things (fossil fuels kicking out way too much CO2 for anyone's liking) and unclaimed environmental goals cost you points (as does reducing CO2 levels). Which isn't immediately terrible until you realise that the game is instantly over if you drop below 0 points

Lots of plates to spin here and an actual sense of urgency injected into the whole thing which again feels very well aligned with the theme.

I played Lisboa at AireCon and just kinda sat back at the end wondering how you conceive of a game that intricate, let alone finesse the design. I think that applies here too.

On the surface you're trying to build renewable energy fast enough that you're not overwhelmed by fossil fuel. That energy costs you resources to build - fair enough. But the balance of living just within your means makes it really tense throughout.

This may be a little bit of a brain dump of incoherent first impressions (apologies - it's been a week) but I'm definitely impressed with what's perhaps a poor relation of Lacerda games overall

Happy weekend!

#boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

What better way to kickstart a hot and sunny bank holiday weekend than by learning the solo rules to a Vital Lacerda game about climate change?

Agreed - there is no better way which is why CO2 from @giochix hit the table

Another one we can tick off the "too intimidating pile" though I think the Lacerda pedigree rightly made me a little uneasy

I will admit I muddled through a fair amount of the first round and a half - lots of rulebook checking, losing track of where I was up to etc but it DID start to flow pretty coherently towards the end

There's a lot around scarcity here - one main action and up to 3 additional actions per turn, four turns per round and a total of 4 rounds. The cleanup steps introduce a lot of bad things (fossil fuels kicking out way too much CO2 for anyone's liking) and unclaimed environmental goals cost you points (as does reducing CO2 levels). Which isn't immediately terrible until you realise that the game is instantly over if you drop below 0 points

Lots of plates to spin here and an actual sense of urgency injected into the whole thing which again feels very well aligned with the theme.

I played Lisboa at AireCon and just kinda sat back at the end wondering how you conceive of a game that intricate, let alone finesse the design. I think that applies here too.

On the surface you're trying to build renewable energy fast enough that you're not overwhelmed by fossil fuel. That energy costs you resources to build - fair enough. But the balance of living just within your means makes it really tense throughout.

This may be a little bit of a brain dump of incoherent first impressions (apologies - it's been a week) but I'm definitely impressed with what's perhaps a poor relation of Lacerda games overall

Happy weekend!

#boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

What better way to kickstart a hot and sunny bank holiday weekend than by learning the solo rules to a Vital Lacerda game about climate change?

Agreed - there is no better way which is why CO2 from @giochix hit the table

Another one we can tick off the "too intimidating pile" though I think the Lacerda pedigree rightly made me a little uneasy

I will admit I muddled through a fair amount of the first round and a half - lots of rulebook checking, losing track of where I was up to etc but it DID start to flow pretty coherently towards the end

There's a lot around scarcity here - one main action and up to 3 additional actions per turn, four turns per round and a total of 4 rounds. The cleanup steps introduce a lot of bad things (fossil fuels kicking out way too much CO2 for anyone's liking) and unclaimed environmental goals cost you points (as does reducing CO2 levels). Which isn't immediately terrible until you realise that the game is instantly over if you drop below 0 points

Lots of plates to spin here and an actual sense of urgency injected into the whole thing which again feels very well aligned with the theme.

I played Lisboa at AireCon and just kinda sat back at the end wondering how you conceive of a game that intricate, let alone finesse the design. I think that applies here too.

On the surface you're trying to build renewable energy fast enough that you're not overwhelmed by fossil fuel. That energy costs you resources to build - fair enough. But the balance of living just within your means makes it really tense throughout.

This may be a little bit of a brain dump of incoherent first impressions (apologies - it's been a week) but I'm definitely impressed with what's perhaps a poor relation of Lacerda games overall

Happy weekend!

#boardgamesofinstagram #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

Day 10 of #10GamesToStartACollection where me and @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews face-off with our thoughts on where to start your board game collection if you're moving on from timeless classics like Monopoly, Uno or Cluedo. My pick for today is...

🃏 Game: Flip 7
📢 Published by: @theopgames @ericolsengames
🔑 Key elements: Push your luck
👥 Player count: 3+
🪙 Price: £10
⏭️ If you like this then consider: Cubitos

I'll admit I too was sceptical when I read "The greatest card game of all time" on the front of the box but they maybe done convinced me. Anyone can play this game, and everyone I've shown it to has bought a copy (no commission here - just doing it for the love). It's blackjack or pontoon with a family-friendly twist and it is superb. Taking another card when you've got 10, 11 and 12 in front of you and surviving is almost pure adrenaline. Equally getting dumped out of the round by drawing the only other 2 in the deck is crushing

The video has a quick overview of the game and why we like it so be sure to check it out and give us a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments

If you've watched along, liked, reposted or commented, thanks so much and hopefully you've enjoyed this. Thanks to Hannah for suggesting it and for being gracious enough to see that I won 😆

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Like any self-respecting person, I get VERY giddy when a crowd-funded game is being delivered. Today was no exception.

I've been stoked about this one from the moment I backed it. I love Hegemony and a global, international relations follow-up is exactly my kinda thing!

Quick unboxing and I think we have plans to get it on the table next week already!

Amazing quality in the production from @hegemonic_project_games as ever and I'll post a first impressions of gameplay soon!

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Day 9 of #10GamesToStartACollection where me and @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews face-off with our thoughts on where to start your board game collection if you're moving on from timeless classics like Monopoly, Uno or Cluedo. My pick for today is...

🐉 Game: Flamecraft
📢 Published by: @cbalchemy @luckyduckgames
🔑 Key elements: Worker placement, contract fulfilment
👥 Player count: 1-5
🪙 Price: £30 (retail version)
⏭️ If you like this then consider: Everdell

One of the first games I did a big all-in crowdfunding pledge for and there are no regrets at all. It's easy to take a cute theme at face value and think there's no game behind it. That's definitely not the case here and it's all kinds of fun. There are intro and advanced order cards to complete so you can step up the difficulty after a while, and if you like pun-based humour you're in for a real treat!

The video has a quick overview of the game and why we like it so be sure to check it out and give us a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments

Back with the last one tomorrow!

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Day 8 of #10GamesToStartACollection where me and @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews face-off with our thoughts on where to start your board game collection if you're moving on from timeless classics like Monopoly, Uno or Cluedo. My pick for today is...

🎲 Game: Sagrada
📢 Published by: @floodgategames
🔑 Key elements: Dice drafting, dice placement, pattern matching
👥 Player count: 2-4
🪙 Price: £32
⏭️ If you like this then consider: Roll Player

Another classic really, and while this one isn't always off the shelf at regular intervals, it has been a mainstay in our collection for years. There are 90 (NINETY) dice in here and completing each stage of the puzzle that has reducing odds of success each time is incredibly satisfying. The theme is lovely and the translucent dice give off a great stained glass effect!

The video has a quick overview of the game and why we like it so be sure to check it out and give us a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments

Back with another tomorrow!

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Well... Nemesis Lockdown continues to delight as one of the most thematically engaging games I own. I'm fairly I trot out a lot of the same praise, but as Jack White once sang "Said it once before but it bears repeating now"

Our 3-player mission took about 4 hours last night (this is not for the faint-hearted) though we played fully co-operatively on the Mars Surface side of the board

Early rounds - great - slow progress but mostly dominated by noises in the walls, not malevolent Nightstalkers up in our faces. About a third of the way through, that changed as @rowe_benedict heroically (albeit arguable reluctantly) powered on for an egg from the nest to help us meet an objective of uncovering all the weaknesses. Only to be confronted (more than once) by the towering alien queen...

While all that kerfuffle was going on, I was sending signals and uncovering contingencies to box that off while @seachestgames had handbrake-turned the rover up to an exit door with the engine running, ready to get to the lab on the other side of the facility

Time was ticking down (metaphorically and also it's gone like 11pm by this point) as I explored the final tile, completing the final objective... and leaving myself in a room full of fire with no more wounds to absorb. My heroic/clumsy death opened the main gate for Ryan's rover escape as Ben valiantly made a run for the sanctuary of the bunker... only to have a tiny alien buddy violently burst through his Martian space suit

BUT we completed all the objectives and someone survived so we ended with a (blood-spattered) win

Superb game - no notes @awakenrealms.boardgames

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Day 7 of #10GamesToStartACollection where me and @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews face-off with our thoughts on where to start your board game collection if you're moving on from timeless classics like Monopoly, Uno or Cluedo. My pick for today is...

🧜‍♀️ Game: Sea Salt & Paper
📢 Published by: @bombyx_edition
🔑 Key elements:Cards, set collection
👥 Player count: 2-4
🪙 Price: £13
⏭️ If you like this then consider: Forest Shuffle

I reckon card games are familiar to the majority of people and this is a hall-of-famer for me. Chuck it in your pocket and play while you're having your sandwich. Bask in the glory of collecting all 4 mermaids to instantly win, or, if you're me, shake of the despair as it happens to you more than once 😭

It's genuinely such an engaging game that is so well elevated by the cards themselves - absolute gold star for us

The video has a quick overview of the game and why we like it so be sure to check it out and give us a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments

Back with another tomorrow!

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Boy howdy...

I've learned 4 solo modes in 3 days for games that I would charitably say are "not the most straightforward", which is generally backed up by their Board Game Geek complexity ratings

🚢 First up was Le Havre from @lookout_games which has notes of classic Uwe Rosenberg. Which is to say, feeding people gets in the way of doing what you actually wanna do. I realised halfway through I'd fanned the building cards out the wrong way, so wasted a LOT of turns getting resources. Actual solo upkeep - easiest of the four and very enjoyable. Idiocy factor, accidentally high

🌊 Next was Underwater Cities from @deliciousgamesboard which is very beautiful and tactile, and did make me consider seeing what the expansions offered. Played this one correctly, upkeep again pretty easy as the automa just blocks spaces. Didn't win but very much enjoyed this one too

⚔️ Third was Paladins of the West Kingolfom from @renegade_game_studios which I think was the hardest to setup and maintain - certainly in the first few rounds - though it certainly improved with familiarity. Shem Phillips' games are iconic in terms of art and design amd I think that kinda translates into *how* the games play as well. I lost but slightly more respectably than expected (assuming I got the majority of the rules right)

🌕 Lastly was Dune Imperium from @direwolf which I'd felt a little intimidated by, especially as the solo mode requires you to manage 2 bot players, but the companion app made that a LOT easier. Think I was pretty spot on with this one - few small bits to maybe iron out - but snuck a win in this one

It's been good to get a grasp of all of these to hopefully make teaching others a little easier, and also relieves some of the personal shame and burden of the unplayed pile at the same time

Have you tackled any of these - solo or otherwise?

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Day 6 of #10GamesToStartACollection where me and @saggyhead.boardgame.reviews face-off with our thoughts on where to start your board game collection if you're moving on from timeless classics like Monopoly, Uno or Cluedo. My pick for today is...

🚃 Game: Ticket To Ride Europe
📢 Published by: @daysofwonder
🔑 Key elements: Set collection
👥 Player count: 1-5
🪙 Price: £31
⏭️ If you like this then consider: Potion Explosion

Choo-choo-choosing Ticket To Ride was a no trainer really. It has this wonderfully sprawling map board, 45 plastic trains each that add a nice tactile feel to the game, and simple enough rules to be able to get to grips with it quickly. But it never feels like a forgone conclusion and the race to get that final connecting route to complete a ticket is incredibly satisfying

The video has a quick overview of the game and why we like it so be sure to check it out and give us a thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments

Back with another tomorrow!

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🚨 BoardSenseless was provided a loan copy of Harbor of Blight Scenario Zero by @harborofblight so we could see what we think and give you our views. We've not been paid and there's no influence on what we've said

Scenario Zero is a standalone choose your own adventure/solo TTRPG game book that sits before Harbor of Blight: Obsidian

It's my first foray into the universe but having read and seen a reasonable amount of fantasy fiction it felt easy to understand how everything fit together in terms of Guilds, characters and the overall feel of the environment

This is a post without spoilers so descriptions are intentionally vague, but you're playing as a character who is trying to solve a mystery by visiting locations, getting clues and items and making choices along the way before an inevitable crescendo of a battle at the end. Which even more inevitably, I lost

I liked that it plays out over a number of in game days where you pick a location and investigate it - sometimes finding clues, sometimes finding very little, and sometimes unlocking new parts of the environment to visit. But there are always more choices that you have time available so you can see it unfolding like branching paths that (un)mask parts of the information

It's designed in a way that everything comes back to a couple of main points, but the choices you make at the end are still vast. There are also achievements you can unlock by taking certain paths to the end

Combat was intuitive and we were kindly provided with the 3 pictured dice to use, though as the book suggests, you can use digital dice which I think makes it portable

It gave me a lot of 80s Choose Your Own Adventure vibes from when I was a kid and despite my failings with the dice I enjoyed it 😊

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🚨 BoardSenseless was provided a loan copy of Harbor of Blight Scenario Zero by @harborofblight so we could see what we think and give you our views. We've not been paid and there's no influence on what we've said

Scenario Zero is a standalone choose your own adventure/solo TTRPG game book that sits before Harbor of Blight: Obsidian

It's my first foray into the universe but having read and seen a reasonable amount of fantasy fiction it felt easy to understand how everything fit together in terms of Guilds, characters and the overall feel of the environment

This is a post without spoilers so descriptions are intentionally vague, but you're playing as a character who is trying to solve a mystery by visiting locations, getting clues and items and making choices along the way before an inevitable crescendo of a battle at the end. Which even more inevitably, I lost

I liked that it plays out over a number of in game days where you pick a location and investigate it - sometimes finding clues, sometimes finding very little, and sometimes unlocking new parts of the environment to visit. But there are always more choices that you have time available so you can see it unfolding like branching paths that (un)mask parts of the information

It's designed in a way that everything comes back to a couple of main points, but the choices you make at the end are still vast. There are also achievements you can unlock by taking certain paths to the end

Combat was intuitive and we were kindly provided with the 3 pictured dice to use, though as the book suggests, you can use digital dice which I think makes it portable

It gave me a lot of 80s Choose Your Own Adventure vibes from when I was a kid and despite my failings with the dice I enjoyed it 😊

#ukbgreviewcircle #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

🚨 BoardSenseless was provided a loan copy of Harbor of Blight Scenario Zero by @harborofblight so we could see what we think and give you our views. We've not been paid and there's no influence on what we've said

Scenario Zero is a standalone choose your own adventure/solo TTRPG game book that sits before Harbor of Blight: Obsidian

It's my first foray into the universe but having read and seen a reasonable amount of fantasy fiction it felt easy to understand how everything fit together in terms of Guilds, characters and the overall feel of the environment

This is a post without spoilers so descriptions are intentionally vague, but you're playing as a character who is trying to solve a mystery by visiting locations, getting clues and items and making choices along the way before an inevitable crescendo of a battle at the end. Which even more inevitably, I lost

I liked that it plays out over a number of in game days where you pick a location and investigate it - sometimes finding clues, sometimes finding very little, and sometimes unlocking new parts of the environment to visit. But there are always more choices that you have time available so you can see it unfolding like branching paths that (un)mask parts of the information

It's designed in a way that everything comes back to a couple of main points, but the choices you make at the end are still vast. There are also achievements you can unlock by taking certain paths to the end

Combat was intuitive and we were kindly provided with the 3 pictured dice to use, though as the book suggests, you can use digital dice which I think makes it portable

It gave me a lot of 80s Choose Your Own Adventure vibes from when I was a kid and despite my failings with the dice I enjoyed it 😊

#ukbgreviewcircle #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété

🚨 BoardSenseless was provided a loan copy of Harbor of Blight Scenario Zero by @harborofblight so we could see what we think and give you our views. We've not been paid and there's no influence on what we've said

Scenario Zero is a standalone choose your own adventure/solo TTRPG game book that sits before Harbor of Blight: Obsidian

It's my first foray into the universe but having read and seen a reasonable amount of fantasy fiction it felt easy to understand how everything fit together in terms of Guilds, characters and the overall feel of the environment

This is a post without spoilers so descriptions are intentionally vague, but you're playing as a character who is trying to solve a mystery by visiting locations, getting clues and items and making choices along the way before an inevitable crescendo of a battle at the end. Which even more inevitably, I lost

I liked that it plays out over a number of in game days where you pick a location and investigate it - sometimes finding clues, sometimes finding very little, and sometimes unlocking new parts of the environment to visit. But there are always more choices that you have time available so you can see it unfolding like branching paths that (un)mask parts of the information

It's designed in a way that everything comes back to a couple of main points, but the choices you make at the end are still vast. There are also achievements you can unlock by taking certain paths to the end

Combat was intuitive and we were kindly provided with the 3 pictured dice to use, though as the book suggests, you can use digital dice which I think makes it portable

It gave me a lot of 80s Choose Your Own Adventure vibes from when I was a kid and despite my failings with the dice I enjoyed it 😊

#ukbgreviewcircle #boardgaming #boardgames #brettspiel #jeudesociété