Yokohama

EvEvanstar10,0

Yokomama is a tactical recipe-fueled pickup and deliver game. It has an interesting mechanism where you lay your workers down on tiles like breadcrumbs and then walk your meeple along chains of tiles containing your workers. You choose where to stop and then resolve an action in your end spot with a strength equal to the number of your pieces there. The game rewards you for taking actions of higher strength encouraging buildup. The nice thing about the recipes here is that you can claim the cards ahead of being able to compete them, which helps a lot in terms of what I see as an issue in similar games, where you are fighting to grab the goal faster than other players after already spending the time lining up the ingredients. While this game might do nothing "new" it's extremely well done, the iconography is consistent and quickly understandable and the gameplay feels very smooth and enjoyable. Downtime between turns is fairly low. Player interaction isn't extremely high, although you do have to pay other players money when you walk through them, or place workers into where their pawn is standing, so it's not completely solitaire. The game also has some nice rules that allow you to earn extra action tokens, so there's good room for clever and creative moves. ★ 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

GaGarfieldstar2,0

After reading the rules no desire to play. Sounds like boring collecting resources to fulfils goals. Too dry.