TLDR: Star Trek adventure/war/exploration done right
This game is chock full of random.
Your job, as Fleet Captain is to mitigate that randomness, be prepared and create a winning situation when things are at their worst.
TLDR: Roll and move adventure comes to 40K
It is indeed fun to think you're going against an easy enemy when somehow it turns out the entire pantheon of chaos gods just happen to show up instead.
Read MoreTLDR: Timing based tile placement wargame
This game makes me giddy.
Really. This game builds up this pressure, bursting at the seams to get out. Then BLAM.
TLDR: Old School Adventure gaming done right
Mystic Wood is an archetypical adventure game. It would be difficult indeed to find a game of this genre 30 years later that doesn't borrow heavily from Mystic Wood. Even if the present designers never played or even heard of Mystic Wood - this is an adventure game stripped down to the bare essentials.
Read MoreTLDR: Computerless First Person combat
The game is a brilliance of design for simulating man to man (creature?) combat.
Read MoreTLDR: Choose actions to complete D&D quests
“Milord, someone has reduced the population to cubes.”
"Cubes, you say?"
"Indeed Milord. All people of note. Adventurers, as it were."
TLDR: The Gang Vs Monsters reliving Joss Whedon’s heyday.
Before all the HeroScapeyness and such but post HeroQuest years, super gamey Gods Rob and Craig did the deed and up popped BtVS:tG(US), which is not the chemical equation for cheese.
Read MoreTLDR: Bizarre races in a card combo based multi battle war.
Blue Moon is a rapid fire series of intense concentrations as each battle is wagered, but within a few minutes, it is resolved and the next battle begins. This is now available all in a single box called Blue Moon Legends.
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