Obsession

EvEvanstar0.9

The process of play in this game is really interesting. Each player starts with an array of 1 tile of each color. On your turn, you select 1 tile to be your active tile. You then have to spend a worker in the color matching the box on the tile. The tile then often lets you play some number of cards from your hand. The cards often cost additional workers of varied colors, and then the cards also produce their benefits. Normally workers take two turns to reset, unless you pass reclaiming your played cards which also resets your worker pool. Rounds are few, so ideally you want to pass as few times as possible. To facilitate this, one of the common effects on the cards is to get more cards. It's a great core mechanism to build a game on, but sadly this game is burdened by an incredibly high degree of randomness, which kills the experience for me completely. The new cards you buy come in the form of blind or mostly blind draws from the stack. From the basic pile, the VP variance on the cards ranges from 1 to -4vp. For example, one player might use their turn to draw cards, and get cards with good abilities and 2vp, and another might get useless take-that cards that cost them 5vp for owning. There is a single cull card in your starting array, but again, resetting your cards spends a full turn a game with very few turns, so don't expect to get a lot of use from it. The game has very high value secret goal cards. Some can be completed but many require you to have a set of three specific tiles or similar requirements that rely on those tiles both making it to the display, being at a cost you can afford, not being chumped off or bought by another player. Essentially impossible. In our game one player was able to do all three of his, two players couldn't complete even one. There is also a powerful card that gets handed off at the end of each round to the player who has the most VP on buildings of the color matching the current demand card. The reward additionally comes with a hidden VP card work around 6vp. Each round one new demand card flips. In our game we each pushed heavily into one color of building, chasing the demand of that particular round. In our final round, a second demand card matching the color one player had already pushed into, which doubled his claim from those tiles, which made him unbeatable for getting the card in the final round, which gained him the 8vp printed on the card plus another 6ish vp bonus card. Add to this the unpleasant take-that card effects, the poor graphic design choices, and you have a game that could have been amazing, but falls so short of it's potential that it's heartbreaking. :nostar: Art, Iconography and components functional :nostar: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :nostar: Multiple plays stay interesting :nostar: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

Daniel García Cruzstar6.0

Lo mejor del juego las cartas con esas ilustraciones color sepia. Juego de comprar losetas y activarlas acomodando a nuestros invitados y familiares para ganar dinerito e influencia.

Jan Solostar9.0

Un eurogame con mecánicas muy bien hiladas. Bien tematizado, aunque la temática es bastante atípica.