ESSEN The Game: SPIEL'13

Players visit the International Game Fair in Essen, moving through the crowded halls to reach publishers and collect games from their wishlists. Game availability is limited, so purchases must be planned carefully while managing budgets and carrying capacity. As bags become heavier, movement is reduced, requiring regular trips to the parking lot to store purchases in the car before returning to the fair.

Players: 2–5 best 4
Playing time: 75 min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 2.8 / 5

4.6 on LudoyaPick-up and DeliverArea MovementSimulation

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Design: Etienne Espreman
Fabrice Beghin
Frédéric Delporte
Art: Cyrille Breuil
Publisher: Geek Attitude Games

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Plays logged: 6
Players: 4
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4.6/10

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Evan4.6
The theme of this game is you run your marker around the Essen board game convention buying board games. The more games you buy, the slower you walk in a turn. The game tiles show pictures of the games released in 2013. In some cases the theme hurt me, because you are rewarded for buying games you have a matching card for (thematically called your "wantlist".) This made me want to travel in time and stop me from buying certain titles. Other pictures of games reminded me of games I'd rather have been playing than this one. All that aside, if I ignore the theme, the game was an enjoyable pickup and deliver romp. ☆ 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

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