Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game

Jan Solostar7,5

Deckbuilding colaborativo ambientado en las 4 primeras películas de Alien. Mecánicas interesantes con ataque, exploración y eventos.

EvEvanstar4,6

I've you've played Legendary Marvel, there's a lot you'll recognize about this game. Essentially, this game is a deck builder where players buy new cards from a belt of cards, hoping to accumulate combos for the future, which will be used to defeat the belt of enemy cards. Each scenario has special rules for victory, which in this case is themed for the various Alien movies. The art is a little weak to what I'm used to from reading Dark Horse Alien comic books from the 80s and 90s, but it's reasonably standard for a game in the Legendary series. Mechanically, I enjoy that this game is fully co-op as opposed to the strange system in the main Legendary games line where you are working together but also fighting for the most points. To that end, there's an awesome little mechanic here that allows you to assist another player during their turn by playing your assist card and then redrawing, helping you to cycle around to your better cards. Another fantastic element is that players have a character card which however much health, and wounds just stack up at the side of your board, rather than crapping up your card draws. I liked Marvel Legendary, but I got annoyed by the semi-co-op nature, plus the unwieldiness of all the expansions, plus the focus on 90s characters and art really got to me. Legendary Alien brings along none of that baggage and doubles down on the things I liked about the game. ★ 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