Eldritch horror vs Pandemic

Although there is a lot of fun extra stuff to add into it, and it is an epic game. But epic games are often really fun and interesting. I love this ga...

Also - are you shuffling and randomly distributing the characters at the beginning of the game? This way every game becomes a new challenge on how your given characters can work together to solve the game.

You move Tyrese! No, no, no! No and talk to her, you find she believed me starship, Baron is physically exhausting. Would you try to take the bodies o...

Your bad thing to save. There are seven unique roles that players can play, which means there's lots of replay value. The game is particularly challen...

therefore we win. It's a conflict. Do we win, or lose? According to the reference guide under "Conflicts" pg 4, "If multiple effects would be resolved at the same time, [my 3rd mystery solved therefore win, mythos deck empty therefore we lose] the active player decides the order in which they are resolved." So it looks like I could choose that the mystery was solved before I had to flip the next card, therefore I win

Grinning. Writing your orders on a notebook you're, not even on the board. The only time you appear on the board as a bioterrorist is when somebody ha...

The way the different enemies behave, the way the cards synergise with each other and between players, the legacy elements...it's suddenly rewarding

We do actually love the new expansion pack but I refuse to give it 5 stars when the directions reference pieces that do not come with it or the original game. There are even spaces in the box for the petri dishes that do not even come with it. We spent a good 20 minutes searching for them and then blaming each other for losing pieces already only to find out that they don't even come with it. The directions also mention 24 purple cubes

Love the combat mechanics of Arkham Horror? They're still here, just a smidge simpler. Love the feeling of being one turn away from winning when all of a sudden everyone fails their skill checks and the Elder God awakens? You got it. That happens a lot. The mechanics are simpler but the difficulty is still weighted toward "we're all gonna die" with a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel

I’d say we are looking for something just a bit heavier than the splendors/carcassonne but id really like something that still plays in under an hour, or even better, 45 minutes.

- Winning or losing is almost always very close, which means the game has just the right difficulty and all numbers/items/possible actions are brilliantly designed. - I also like the idea of having a cooperative game, where we all play against the game instead of against each other. The game requires a great deal of cooperation and coordination among the players in order to win, which makes it a great team building activity. - The game is scalable: possible actions and number of items changes depending on the number of players involved

I recently moved and took it as an opportunity to redo all of the shelving in my game room/office - in my old place I had a dedicated game room with a table (RIP) and housed my collection on some decade+ old bookcases from Staples + a KALLAX. I was getting bored of the KALLAX (sorry KALLAX, you're still great) and wanted something different so I painstakingly assembled a crapton of IKEA EKET shelves and I'm really digging the results!

It was too long. It's too big used to take you about six hours to play this one. If you've got the core set, you can knock this one out in about an ho...

I just picked up Pandemic yesterday from Target and played it once. I enjoyed it, although it hits a little close to home.

I won't be doing number ratings as I find categorising perfume in such a way to be very uninformative and misleading at best.

You can only have seven cards in your hand and the card deck once it runs out. You lose the game. Still doesn't sound that difficult, but there's a pr...

It was hard but thinky and we found it to be really thematic and engaging. Played a few times but it's been on the shelf for at least 4 years now.

Next is the main purpose of this expansion, the lab board and sequence cards. This introduces a new way to cure diseases by maneuvering and manipulating the disease cubes within the lab (the lab board) instead of using just 5 cards of the same color to discard at a research station. I won't get into the details of how this works as the instructions span over 2 to 3 pages but just search for Pandemic In the Lab rules and you can review for yourself or just search YouTube and you can see the Gen Con review video. I do enjoy curing diseases this way as it adds more of a thematic approach and makes it more engaging while playing vs

We played a game of it on what I consider to be an enormous dining room table and the three of us barely had enough room for our elbows once we'd set the game up. It is the game for which no table is adequate so unless you have an insane amount of surface area at your disposal, you might want to give this game a pass. Next, the game is *hard*. At points it's crazy hard

In terms of difficulty, the game has about 30 levels of difficulty you can scale yourself by adding scenarios, adversaries, etc. The base level is not a huge challenge, but will be tough for a few plays while you learn how the invaders work how to counter them. So in that sense, I wouldn't call it a "hard" game - you will win 100% of the time on level 0 after your initial learning curve, but there are few players in the world who can win on max level.