Majolica

EvEvanstar0.9

In this game you collect tiles by depleting production spaces in a central area. Then the tiles go into boxes on your personal player board. Once the boxes meet the printed color requirements you can move a fixed number of them into a recipe card above the space. Then the remaining tiles flush into the box to the right. I can see the clever engine building present in this game but it's a frustrating process to get a good sense of. The requirements to get the tiles onto the recipe cards is often at odds with what color tiles you are able to produce leading to a lot of wasted tiles. Once the engine is running it doesn't feel very satisfying. There's also a bizarre mechanism where the round ends once x tiles have been depleted from the center which leads to uneven numbers of turns between players for no strategic reason I can see. The reset process involves picking up all the central tiles and shuffling them face down which happens very often and becomes an annoying process. This is a pass for me. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ☆ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ☆ Multiple plays stay interesting ☆ Low or mitigatable luck elements ☆☆☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment