A kind of deck building game where you buy and strategically play cards in an effort to navigate a variable puzzle jungle to be first to reach the city of gold.

In 2024 the latest tweaks to the current edition of the manuals and rulebooks for the classic tabletop role playing game were published, and I took this as my cue to finally jump into this universe. May as well get the freshest rules hot off the presses, huh?

Laying down hexagonal tiles to build a pastoral landscape and score points is the key point of this cooperative board-ish game. Ish, because there is no board per se but certainly a lot of table real estate to be claimed.

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.