Hyperborea

EvEvanstar5,9

This is an interesting bag building game where you are trying to balance action cube acquisition with getting enough new action spaces to use those cubes. The board consists of hexes with special abilities on them, which you are fighting other players for control over. This game straddles the line between euro and ameritrash and does so quite elegantly. The game attempts to minimize downtime by having you draw cubes for your following turn at the end of your current turn, which helps but doesn't eliminate some of the AP that can happen when someone's lined up a series of big moves. The game ends when a certain number of objectives are completed. Although the printed player count is 2-6, this game really only works well with 3 or 4 players. With 2 it's too much direct conflict, and with 5 or 6 the downtime between turns is unmanageable. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :star: Clever or interesting mechanisms :nostar: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment