How to Play Garden Rush

Garden Rush is a race to forty points. Each player is building out their own garden of vegetables and then harvesting those vegetables for points. The game is over when a player has passed 40 points and players have taken an even number of turns, or until tiles run out.

Turns

On your turn you take one tile from a center row. If you place it in the column that it was taken from, you put it on the two side, that means it can be used for scoring twice. Or if it’s not you place it on the one side. If you cover a bonus spot, then you take that bonus, we’ll talk more about bonuses in a little bit.

Or on your turn you harvest one of the sections of veggies. Each type of vegetable has a specific pattern in which it will score, and three versions of that pattern. When you harvest a veggie you score a single point for each vegetable in that pattern. And you flip the veggies that show two veggies to show one, and remove the ones that show a single veggie.

Bonuses

Now, what I described above is the vast majority of the game. But there are bonuses printed onto each garden as well. Each bonus is going to provide something different. One bonus will water a veggie flipping it’s side. That can be used to turn an opponents veggie to a one, or your veggie back to a two. Another lets you take an additional tile after your first one and yet another harvest a group of veggies on a turn you placed veggies. The final one let’s you move veggies around.

Scoring

One thing about scoring is that there are specific spots on the scoring track that give you a bonus as well. This bonus spot, if you land exactly on it, is going to let you use one of the bonuses printed on your or your opponents garden. But there is a specific rule around that, that bonus needs to be visible in order for it to be used. So if you and your opponent both have the bonus harvest covered up, you cannot use that ability.

Bonus Module

There is a module that I assume comes with the game. It is something that is easy to add in, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t. The module is more tools that you add to your game. These are tools that aren’t printed on your board, but they show-up in that center row with the vegetables. You place the tools on your board like a vegetable and they block spots. But difference between them an a vegetable is that they do not come off your board.

What Doesn’t Work

I find that I don’t have much issue with the game. I think that the biggest negative might be the module with the bonus tiles. Now, I like the bonus tiles, there are just a lot of them. And they flood that center row at certain points in every game. That means that sometimes you take a move that isn’t that great for you. Now, it is an issue for your opponent as well, but the moves don’t feel like a positive move forward.

What Works

Firstly, I like the simplicity of the turns. You either play a tile or you harvest vegetables. And I think that is what I want in a two player game basically always. Because of that simplicity of each turn, I find that the games go very quickly. Even on BGA, Garden Rush is a fast game to play if both players are on at all at the same time. It is worth noting I play asynchronously.

Another element that I like is how the different vegetables score. They score in different shape patterns and it is a fun puzzle to figure out how you can have the tomatoes go between the carrots as they both work on diagonals. Or can you get lettuce and corn to interlock to best use your garden as you fill it out. It’s not a complex puzzle, but it’s something that is fun to optimize as you play. As well as optimizing the placement of veggies so you get to use them twice.

The powers on the board and in the module are fun as well. The ones in the module really change up the game. And the one on the board, you tend to activate them when you activate them, but you can create some very good turns doing that. And I appreciate how all of them work.

Speaking of the module, it is fun as well because they fill up your garden. That is some of the reason why they can be a negative in that middle row to take from. But you need to plan where you take them from so you don’t mess with your vegetable scoring. I think that the module is a very good add to the game after you play a couple of times.

Who Is Garden Rush For?

Garden Rush is a great game for couples who want a pretty easy game to learn and play and play in an evening. Set-up is fast, game play is fast, and you feel like you are doing something. It is also good for people who maybe don’t love board games as much. I think that the game, especially without the module, is easy to understand and learn how to play the game. But with the module, it adds in that extra challenge that is going to keep more seasoned game players engaged.

Final Thoughts on Garden Rush

I enjoy Garden Rush quite well. I don’t think it is the favorite of the two player games that I’ve learned this year on BGA, though. Zenith still holds that top spot. But the game is very enjoyable to play. And I think it works well because it has just enough strategy to it. With or without the module of the extra tools there is a good amount going on with it. And each turn I want to optimize how I place out my veggies to use them twice.

And I like how there are bonuses that you can get on the scoring track. I know that I am not the best at using them. In fact, that is one area that I need to get better at when I play Garden Rush. But when you can use them, you can combo into some very good turns. And it is possible to combo scoring a section of the garden, use the place an extra veggie ability, cover up your place an extra veggie, so place another tile which could cover up a another bonus and chain into a powerful turn. And I like that a lot in a game.

My Score: B+
Gamer Score: B
Casual Score: B
Luck Level: 4
Strategy Level: 6

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How To Play The Architects of Amytis

The game is about scoring the most points generally by building out different groupings of buildings. You want buildings of certain colors to be in certain positions so that they complete your scoring card objectives. But you also get points through a couple of different areas as well, which we’ll talk about as we talk about game play.

Getting Tiles

You are pacing tiles onto a 3 by 3 grid. To get a tile you place a worker onto a three by three grid of available tiles. Each tile is part of a stack and you take the top tile on that stack and place it onto your board. You want to place it in a way so it helps build out one of the patterns that you have.

When you place your worker, you do need to consider one thing. Where you place your worker matters. Because, if you get three in a row, you get to place out a scoring marker. Those scoring markers can just be for some points on a track that increases the more markers you have on it. Or you can score points if at the end of the game for each of the spots on your board that has two tiles on it, for example. If you complete a row of three you remove your workers, otherwise you remove your workers at the start of a turn following placing your forth worker.

Placing Tiles

You also need to consider when taking tiles the power of the tile. Each of them is going to give you some in the moment benefit. Often times that’s just going to be scoring some points. But there is one type of building that is going to let you grab another pattern, and you need to get those because you don’t refill in those cards otherwise.

The game continues like this with players taking turns and placing workers until two piles of tiles are empty. At that point, players will tally up the patterns that they scored, plus any other bonus points they chose to go after from getting three workers in a row. And the player with the most points wins.

What Doesn’t Work?

I think that the placing of workers might be a bit disappointing to some people. You want to get three in a row, but it’s a 3 by 3 grid, the other player can block you. So you maybe get two or three of the tokens into play. And sometimes it’s just smarter to spend them on the one track that gives you points for the more you have. The other ones, you want to try and get them, but it’s often difficult to set it up.

I think it also might not work for some people with how tight it is getting new scoring tiles or cards. There are a handful, maybe just 4 tiles, that can get you more cards. So if you don’t get one or two of those, you find yourself very limited in what you can do. So it becomes about creating three in a row. And we just talked about how that is challenging.

What Works?

All The Scoring

Now, I talk about those negatives, but a positive is how you can score in different ways. I think that is a lot of the fun of the game. You want to get three in a row so you can add to your scoring. In fact, you need to do that because while the patterns give a lot of points, you need to supplement them somewhere. And if you can get, for example, the one where you get points for having your tiles two deep and you get all nine tiles, that’s a lot of points. So I enjoy that aspect of the game.

I like, also, how the tiles score when you play them. Walls, for example, score for being near the edge of the board. But if you place a wall in the middle, you get points for your other walls still. So there’s this fun element of where to place the tiles as well. Now, sometimes it is a less than ideal placement to finish a pattern, but you’re still getting points. It just might not be quite as ideal as it could be.

Game Speed

The turns in this game are also very fast. A turn is placing a worker and grabbing that tile to place on your board. While you place and score, your opponent can be figuring out what tile to pick. So even on BGA, if you get two people on at the same time, the games just fly by.

Player Interaction

The final thing I want to talk about is how you can mess with the other player. I make this game sound fairly solitaire. And it is generally the best plan to get points yourself. But when I place a worker, if I can block you from getting three, that is great. I don’t want to do something that won’t give me anything, but if I can slow down your bonus scoring it works well. And this only works because the patterns are face up. So I know what you want to go for.

Who Is The Architects of Amytis For?

I think that this game works really well for a lot of players who who want a good two player game. The back and forth of the game is nice and there is a good mix of strategy, a little luck, and not so many decisions that the game bogs down. So it is going to feel familiar and comfortable to a lot of more casual gamers.

My Final Thoughts on The Architects of Amytis

I enjoy this game a whole lot more than I do Harmonies. They have some interesting things going on in them, but for a pattern making game, I think this one is better. I like the little bit extra that it adds without making it too complicated. Harmonies gives you one extra element of placing a token so you can’t reuse stuff, but that just makes it restrictive. This game is more generous and very generous when it comes to points.

And I think that generosity with the points is something else that I appreciate. It’s no0t like I spend a ton of time and I get something done and it’s a few points. When you need a few turns to build up and get points, it’s nice to have the points mean something. Add in that you get points even when you don’t complete a pattern is nice as well.

Finally, the three in a row is very fun as well. I think element of the game is one of my favorite. I want to figure out how to optimize my end game scoring. And I make choices, like going for piles of tiles that are two tall, that will determine how I play the game.

My Grade: B-
Strategy: B
Luck: C-

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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 20 through 11

20. Heat: Pedal to the Metal

• Published by Days of Wonder in 2022
• Fly around the track and manage your engine so it doesn’t over heat to win the race

This is a great racing game. It is a nice blend of simplicity. You play cards equal to the gear that you are in for your movement. But also some complexity as you need to be smart with how you handle the curves, straightaways, how much you push your engine and when you cool it down. That cooling down part of the game is great as it really makes a difference in how you play and when you push it. Plus there are modules you use, like drafting some cards for your deck, that make the game even more fun, or you can do a series of races which is also great.

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19. Planet Unknown

• Published by Adam’s Apple Games in 2022
• Terraform your planet and increase your technology better than your opponents can

Planet Unknown is a polyomino game where you are terraforming a planet. You can play it in the basic mode where everyone is doing the same planet and same tech track, or you can do unique planets and tech tracks. I love the unique ones and I think that’s the way to go after the first game. But Planet Unknown has more than just laying out tiles, how you decide which tile is picked for you is amazing. Whomever is the leader that round turns a lazy susan full of tiles and whatever one is pointing to where you pick from, those are your options. So you can stick someone with something or sometimes get the perfect thing.

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18. Clank! In! Space!

• Published by Dire Wolf in 2017
• Race through a spaceship but don’t try and make too much noise as you grab a treasure and get out

This is a push your luck deckbuilding game, and I enjoy both of those elements to the game. I find that pure push your luck doesn’t always work for me, but add in deckbuilding a mechanism I love, it’s great. You build up your deck to move and grab a treasure, fight monsters, and buy more cards that are worth points. But you also need to be aware of how noisy you are. If you’re too noisy the villain, Lord Eradikus will start drawing out your cubes, if you clank, and dealing damage to you. And you might not make it out before you die.

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17. ISS Vanguard

• Published by Awaken Realms in 2022
• Explore a new solar system while you manage your crew and your ship

ISS Vanguard is a big campaign game and one that I’ve played on Malts and Meeples. Not the whole way through, but far enough to give you an idea of how it plays. The game is interesting because it plays over two parts. Part of the game is exploring planets and discovering why humanity was called out to this location in the stars. The other part is managing your ship. I was worried that managing your ship wouldn’t feel important, but it’s a great element to the game and makes it feel even more thematic.

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16. Vampire the Masquerade: CHAPTERS

• Published by Flyos Games in 2023
• Enter a world of vampires and darkness as you play across missions and try and figure out what is happening in Montreal

Chapters is choose your own adventure RPG in a box. I love how it gives you this great story filled with depth and grit. And it also gives you tactical combat and dice chucking. It feels like a great blend of things that I love in board games and in RPG’s. The story is well written and while there are definitely issues with it there is an app that should be helping fix that and an upgrade pack for it. But even without that, the game is fun, and the app is free so the few spots it’s really busted should be fixed. Plus, I want to play a dark vampire game, and this gives me that in spades.

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15. Metal Gear Solid

• Published by CMON in 2024/2025
• Sneak around the base and battle only when you need to complete missions

Yes, there is a game on my list that isn’t out yet. Spoilers, there might be another one as well coming up in my Top 10. But that is because I’ve gotten to play the final version of the game and I feel like I’ve had enough time with it. I love this game as it’s a tactical minis game where you can fight. But fighting generally is going to be noisy and messy and you’ll be swarmed. When that happens, well, it’s probably game over for you. So instead you need to be smart, sneak around, and try and avoid the guards the best you can or lose them. All while being a pretty simple game to play.

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14. Lost Ruins of Arnak

• Published by Czech Games Edition in 2020
• Explore the lands, find treasure, fight monsters and discover what adventure awaits you

Lost Ruins of Arnak is a deckbuilding game. It is a worker placement game, and it’s a exploring adventure game. For me all of those elements come through. And I love the puzzle of trying to manage your two workers you get place, knowing when and where to place them, buying cards, and risking fighting monsters. Because you need to do it all, and the game isn’t that long in terms of how many rounds it is. But if you’re smart, you can stretch it out for a lot of points and a lot of chaining actions. The Expedition Leaders even adds more fun to the game and more variability as well which I love.

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13. XenoShyft Onslaught

• Published by CMON in 2015
• The base is under attack by bugs, you need to build up your defenses and work together to defeat them

I think I’m the champion of XenoShyft, but I really like the game. It’s another deckbuilding game, but it’s a cooperative one. And I think that cooperative element and how incredibly interactive the cooperation is, that is what makes the game stand out to me. Plus it does a clever thing where you’re never drawing dead with money, so you can always buy cards and bolster up your defenses. Because everyone needs to be able to defend their side of the base so the bugs don’t overrun it.

Out of Print, but you can find it on eBay

12. Marvel Champions

• Published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2019
• Heroes battle villains in this Marvel Superhero game

I love Marvel, we all know that. And Marvel Champions is one of my favorite, if not my favorite Marvel themed game. What I love about this one is that you feel like you are the hero. And not only that, you need to think about being the hero but balancing that with the alter ego. If you stay in hero form the bad guy will beat you up and probably take you out. But if you are in the alter ego side, they don’t know who you are, so they’ll go back to completing their scheme. And that’s not great as well because you can’t blow your cover in alter ego form.

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11. Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

• Published by Portal Games in 2018
• Take on the role of detectives and work together, take the notes, and try and solve the cases

Detective for me is my favorite deduction game. I like deduction a lot, but Detective just makes it really immersive. In the box I’m showing it has five cases that all connect into something big and impressive. And you use information that you took notes on from one case and use it in another. I think by the end of all five cases I had between 12 and 15 pages of notes that we’d look back at. And it uses a computer system as well to let you do things like compare DNA, interview witnesses, and more. The game is just this great thematic detective game for me.

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Just a reminder on my streaming schedule. It’s not just all my Top 100 Games (of all time).

• Monday night, time varies, I play different small solo games, though I might be looking to start up a campaign again. And generally the streams do start between 8 and 8:30 PM central time.
• Wednesday at 9 PM central is going to continue my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition. There is one week left, which is going to be two Wednesdays out. After that I’m planning on doing some look back and look ahead videos and smaller solo games or things like Balatro and Slay the Spire.
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Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition – 90 through 81

90. Project: ELITE

• Published by CMON in 2020
• Real Time Scenario Based Tower Defense

Normally this wouldn’t be my type of game. I love parts of it, like chucking dice, scenario driven play, and cooperative game play. But I don’t like real time. This balances that out by giving you real time in bursts and then a moment to strategize before the next wave of enemies comes out. That is real time game play that works for me.

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89. Lands of Galzyr

• Published by Snowdale Design in 2022
• Relaxing story driven cooperative or competitive game

Lands of Galzyr is a game that feels like that kind of random D&D session. You stumble across missions but each mission is it’s own thing. And the whole thing is done in a package that puts story first and keeps the game play simple. And it’s a relaxing game to play. Not that some stories aren’t exciting or risky, but it never truly feels high stakes.

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88. Kohaku

• Published by 25th Century Games in 2020
• Build the best and highest scoring Koi pond

I really enjoy Kohaku for the simplicity and thoughtfulness of the game play. It’s a game where you need to plan out where you place tiles to optimize your scoring. But it’s not overwhelming. And the elements like drafting both a koi and a scoring tile each turn and how that works is really enjoyable.

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87. My City

• Published by Kosmos in 2020
• A fast, ever building legacy game

My City is one of those legacy games that is just simple and fun to play. Sometimes they get bogged down in trying to be too big, but not My City. The game is focused on adding a little bit each time and giving you a fun fast session as everyone builds out their city in hopes that it’s the best one at the end of each scenario.

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86. The Isofarian Guard

• Published by Skykingdom Games in 2023
• A massive solo and two player story driven adventure

This is one that you can checkout a game play of on Malts and Meeples. I really enjoy this game, though it is a massive table hog. The game is an interesting story telling game that has some tropes, but quickly branches off into magic powers and interesting story. It’s one that I think works well solo but I’d prefer to play two player to keep the combat simpler and share that great story experience.

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85. Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade

• Published by WizKids in 2020
• It’s Roll and Write Pinball, can you get the new high score?

Super-Skill Pinball is truly a pinball roll and write game. I love how it simulates the game with the ball movement and how it launches up, can ping around in the bumpers or drop back down. It’s a great game for solo play and it’s fun with others, though it’s possible that one player will finish before the others. That’s the only downside to the game, but with all of the tables i never feel like I’m lacking in something to keep it being played solo.

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84. Crokinole

• Created in 1876
• A competitive flicking classic

There’s no publisher for Crokinole, the game is public domain, but there are a lot of great spots to get boards and get spendy or fancy boards. I really like the simplicity of the flicking game. It works really well and smoothly and it’s one that you can definitely get really good at. I wish I had more time to get this one to the table, though, I could say that about all of them.

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83. Clever Cubed

• Published by Schmidt Spiele in 2020
• Another combotastic roll and write game from the Clever line

I really enjoy Clever Cubed because while some of the others have combos, Clever Cubed is the one that has even more combos. And while sometimes I really like a good straightforward roll and write game, I also love the ones that give me a ton of combos. No doubt that this the latter, and the core game loop of how you pick and eliminate dice on your turn is always good.

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82. Furnace

• Published by Hobby World in 2020
• Bid on cards and build up the best industrial engine you can

This is a great and simple engine building game. Everything works smoothly with gathering resources and turning them into points. But there is also a really fun auction as well. I love how it’s a single bid per person per card but if you lose the big, you get a benefit for bidding there. And how the benefits scale based off of the number you bid with is amazing.

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81. Yggdrasil Chronicles

• Published by Ludonaute in 2019
• Defend the world tree from all the threats that abound

This is a really tough cooperative game and one that I really enjoy. I think it’s a fun push your luck as you try to power up while hoping that you can keep the enemies in check. Of course, there are so many enemies and they ramp quickly that it can be very challenging. Plus how the enemies activate or how it’s determined which ones do is really clever and fun.

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Final Thoughts on Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition 90 through 81

What do you think of the list, is there a game that you want to try or that you love on it? I feel like I got a really big variety on the list this time. There are some lighter games, but then you have a game with a ton of minis like Project: ELITE and a big campaign game in The Isofarian Guard. The only thing I think is missing is a true party game from this section.

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How It Plays

Calico is actually a very simple game. You are placing a hexagon tile on your board from two that you have and then replacing it with one in your “hand”. That’s a full turn. But there is a lot more thinking going on behind it. You are trying to get sets of three of a color next to each other so you can get buttons, which are points. You are trying to get groups of patterns so that you can attract cats, which are points. And you have goals which you are trying to match which give you points. The person with the most points wins the game.

The Scoring

So normally when I do a TableTopTakes review, I do what I don’t and do like in the game. In this case, since I want to play it more before I review it, I just look at some things I find interesting. Calico has some great scoring. In particular the scoring tiles. You have three different scoring objectives that go into your quilt. They aren’t too complex, it’ll be something like AA-BB-CC for 7 or 11 points. If you get either the three pairs matching colors or pattern surrounding that tile you score 7 points. If you get both to work, you get 11 points.

That doesn’t seem that difficult because you can mix and match how those patterns and colors go. I don’t need 2 dark blue stripes and 2 light blue dots, I could have a dark blue stripe and a light blue stripes and I have two stripes. But what makes it more challenging is you have three of these. And they are close enough to each other that they will share some tiles. That means you need to make those tiles work multiple times.

The Aesthetic

This game looks amazing. Beth Sobel did the artwork on it and it is just gorgeous. She also did the artwork for Wingspan. It’s easy to tell what everything is in the game, but you just want to spend the time looking at the cute cat artwork on the cat scoring tiles as well as the bigger cat tiles. This is a game with an amazing table presence.

Simplicity and Complexity

This game is interesting because it isn’t a difficult game to play. As I said, you simple put one of two tiles you have onto your quilt each turn. Then you take one of the three tiles available and end up with two tiles for the next turn. I like that the game is extremely easy to teach because of that. But the game offers so much in the way of decision making. In the game that I played, the player who won ended up with a lot of buttons and a lot of cats, scoring well in those two areas. I was only slightly behind scoring well on the objective tiles.

But you need to think about what you’re doing. You can’t ignore a single area and score really poorly. Plus you need to think about both patterns and colors. To get the higher scoring on a tile objective, you often are just looking for that one perfect tile to wrap it up. And if you aren’t careful it is really easy to mess up. For a game that is so simple there is a lot of turn angst that goes on. Which I love in a game.

Who Is This Game For?

So, I am going to finish this up with one question. I said that this game gives you turn angst and tough decisions, but the aesthetic and simplicity make it seem like it should be very accessible. Is this game too tough for someone who is more of a casual gamer? Most definitely not. This game is easy to play, the decisions can be tough if you want to put that full effort into it. But to do even okay in this game you can focus on one of the things, getting lots of buttons, getting lots of cats, or getting the objectives right. You don’t need to do amazingly at all of them to have fun in the game.

This is a game that will be great for families, it’ll be a game that I can take to my parents and play with them. They play games and this would make sense to them. And if the people like cats at all, it is a game that is worth playing with them. It also is going to be fun for all ages or languages. There is nothing you need to be able to read on in this game, so overall, just highly accessible.

The Not So Final Grade

So what grade would I give them game. My initial gut reaction says that this will settle into that B/B+ range for me. I like the game, I’m probably always going to be up to play it. But I might not always pull it off the shelf myself. And I could see that going higher just because of the fun of the puzzle of the game.

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Pros

• Legacy Game
• App Integration
• Endlessly replayable
• Tile Placement
• Theme
• Price

Cons

• Short Legacy Campaign
• Possibly Light on Story

The Page

Lucky Duck, known for Chronicles of Crime, Destinies, Kingdom Rush and more board games, has done a lot of crowdfunding before. And that really shows because this is a well put together page. Though, as a legacy game, it can only really show so much. And while that isn’t a knock on if I’m going to back this game or not, it is something to know. The game is going to change in ways that they cannot tell without spoiling the game itself.

I will say for a legacy game the idea of as many stretch goals as there are is odd to me. It must come from the replayable mode after you are done with the legacy campaign. But in some ways I’d prefer to have had that locked in stone, or more of that content added into the legacy campaign itself.

The Game

The game itself looks interesting. They have released the first two scenarios to some content creators to show what is going on. The one that I have watched from Tablenauts, which I’ll have the video right below.

I like how the math works in this game. It’s rare for me to say that I like math, but this one makes sense as an interesting choice in the game. You use any combination of the dice and with addition and subtraction you use that to get tiles to put into your tableau. That piece of the game seems really simple.

And that’s one concern I have about the game. This is a Lucky Duck game so there will be story on the stuff that you scan, but is the game too simple by itself, and is there enough game in the box? I have to ask myself, will I play this after the legacy campaign. Because if not and with how light and fast the game seems to be, are 12 30-45 minute games worth it? Is there enough story and enough game for the price point.

Back or Brick

So is this a back or a brick for me? Right now it’s a back, but I’m a little bit on the fence. I think that the game play looks fun, but I worry about how much game play there is in the box and if I’ll play it after the legacy portion is done. The theme and the potential story that they can tell, I’m very interested in that. Do I think it’s going to be the best legacy game, I’m not sure about that, but I think it should be a very accessible one and should be a lot of fun. But I’m still a little on the fence.

Is this a Back or Brick for you?

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