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| Scythe by fabio 09/13/2017, 12:45pm PDT | ||||
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| Ever been looking for a game that the Euro players will agree to play that avoids the usual Euro traps of being bone dry abstracts?
Scythe comes off as a mix of Terra Mystica and Chaos in the Old World. A lot of the game is running economic actions on your sheet in order to make future actions more efficient and chaining them together, but there is also combat...with mechs! There are resources you gather from spaces, but it's not a 4X game. The terms and language are easy to understand rather than abstract crap like Terra Mystica's magic bowels and cult track. It'll appeal to both dry euro fans and combat/theme driven ameritrash people. It also has the most gorgeous artwork you'll ever see in a game. 
The only downside is that I could eventually see optimum scripted strategies emerge. Terra Mystica had the same problem, but with that game you could quickly figure out each race's script after only one or two plays. In Scythe the game changes based on how many people there are, who the other players are, how much they decide to encroach on you, which faction you get, and which economy mat you get. Enough combinations that you won't be nailing down the perfect moves any time soon. |
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Scythe by 09/13/2017, 12:45pm PDT  I found the artwork too static by 05/09/2018, 8:34am PDT tangent: Simon Stålenhag's art is cool though. NT by 05/09/2018, 9:35am PDT tangent part 2: I honestly thought Simon Stålenhag's did the game by 05/09/2018, 11:45am PDT Rozalski's stuff, from a 1 minute look, is not nearly as cool IMO by 05/10/2018, 5:50pm PDT I just didn't really feel this one by 05/09/2018, 11:43am PDT A digital version just dropped on GOG. by 07/08/2020, 8:15am PDT |
