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The game is a perpetual game, too, in that as you play successive times you keep track of your wins and this unlocks new pieces that enhance the complexity of future play throughs. In effect, you’re leveling up the game itself by playing it, which is a nifty premise just in itself and probably means we’ll be cracking it open more often if only to grind through an unlocking campaign.
Post: Vacation Loop
Saturday the 9th of November, 2024, posted before bed.
Almost exactly three months after picking up our copy of this game while on a vacation in the mountains, we’re back in the mountains at the same hotel, playing yet another round in our ongoing campaign.
This time the weather is a little cooler and our “romantic village” is as much a distraction from the cold and rain outside as it was a reprieve from a long hike those months back.
That said, as we progress through our campaign we’re starting to get a vibe for the strategy and being a little bit smarter about playing tiles. Our game this evening netted us our best score yet and advanced us along yet score sheet a few extra steps over usual.
Post: The Couples Campaign
Monday the 12th of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.
Back at home after our mini vacation we kicked off a second campaign of this little tile game so we could both preserve the campaign we started with our friends and also kick off a new run with just us two now that we got our heads wrapped around the rules a bit better. There had initially been a bit of confusion around the scoring of tasks, particularly around the ability to build compounding tasks that multiplied or efforts per tile played while not breaking the resource count. See, the point of the game is to string together specific landscape resources to chain points.
Our initial read of the rules was quick (because we just wanted to play and we were sitting in a hotel lobby) but on a more thorough comb over the scoring we got our heads around some of the deeper strategy which is simple enough to learn but still has some depth and randomness baked in. Or new campaign got a couple game sessions checked off on the campaign sheet and we made a lot more progress now that we’ve figured it all out.
Post: Hotel Lobbies and Late Night Gaming
Wednesday the 7th of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.
We picked up a copy of this new game at a board game store in Calgary while killing time before a backcountry hiking trip, and our first couple rounds were sat in the lobby of our staging hotel.
As a #cooperativegame board game it was as much a social evening sorting thru the rules and chatting thru strategy as it was a focused games round.
We had a few curious gazes as other guests made their way past over the hour and a half but no one looked too far askew at what four middle aged hosers were doing playing a weird game at a random hotel in Calgary on a Wednesday evening.