Skylands

2018 · Fantasy

Skylands

Players develop a realm of floating islands powered by rare crystalline energy by placing terrain tiles into a personal tableau. Each turn a player chooses one of four actions—Explore, Harvest, Build, or Collect Energy—which all players perform but the chooser gains a bonus; the same action cannot be chosen twice in a row. Tile placement expands forests, quarries, and crystal fields, and completing features allows resource collection and construction of special buildings. Play ends when a tableau fills or all tiles are placed, and scoring combines buildings, collected materials, and earned points. The box includes tiered building cards, a campaign mode, and five small expansions for added variety.

Players
2–4 best 3
Playing time
30–45 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.2 / 5
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Players
41m 40s
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7.2/10

from 5 Ludoya reviews

  • Evan4.6

    This is a filler game where you lay some tiles into your personal board, and then there's a basic role selection mechanism where the active player chooses one of four actions, then each player gets a slightly worse version of that action in turn order. These actions are to get more tiles, produce meeples on completed tile features, or spend those meeples to buy special tiles from a central non-replenishing market, or simply spend blue figures for raw points. We played with all the queenies as only one of them introduces a new rule, most just add variety to the mix of tiles that might appear in the market. Importantly one adds a new set of market tiles that gives you these tiles that are only used to close things off, which felt like an important tile draw luck mitigator. It's good for a 45 min game. Not anything to get that excited about though. The room for making clever plays is somewhat limited to seeing the action other players aren't setting up to do and then using it as the active player so your opponent's can't use their follow action effectively. Idk if it has staying power or not. The role selection tiles are huge, and yet they didn't print the actions on the tiles, which is a curious oversight. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :nostar: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

  • Alexandre MATHIS9.0

    FRENCH - Sous-côté. Retour sur ce jeu mélangeant pose de tuiles et un zeste de gestion de ressources. A ma grande surprise madame et mon grand de 11 ans adorent malgré ce choix artistique un peu étrange (avatar en vert…) mais la mécanique fluide sans temps mort tourne très bien et convient en famille avec des enfants dès 9/10 ans (la boîte indique 8+). 4 parties ce dimanche pluvieux ! Alors comment ça se joue ? On doit remplir son plateau de tuiles-morceaux d‘îles comportant 3 couleurs possibles. Une fois fermées on peut placer des ressources sur les îles. Les ressources bleues permettent de marquer des points une fois récoltées, les vertes et rouges seront utilisées pour acheter des tuiles bonifiées visibles dès le début de la partie. Chose plaisante : quand un joueur décide d’une action, tout le monde en bénéficie (et la joie presque simultanément), le joueur actif disposant toujours d’un petit bonus pour l’avoir choisie. Les parties durent autour de 25/35 min et se renouvellent par le choix des tuiles spéciales. De petites tuiles bonus existent (les queenies de cet éditeur sont une constante) et permettent de varier les tuiles proposées au marché ou à la pioche ! Un bon 8/10 notation Bgg ! ENGLISH - A family tile game with a bit of management. And almost simoultaneous play. Get and place islands tiles, place ressources on completed islands, harvest allows buying better tiles. Play within 30 min, my 11 years old boy loves this one. My wife too ! Clear rules, a bit of thinking, plays fluently, a family friendly game with enough interesting choices for more advanced gamers too ! SPANISH Un juego de colocacion de losetas familiar con un poco de gestión. Casi todos jugamos al mismo tiempo. Consiga y coloque losetas-islas, coloque los recursos en las islas completadas, la cosecha permite de comprar mejores azulejos. Juegue en unos 30 min, perfecto deste 9/10 anos. Reglamento es muy claro, se pienso un poco y se juega con fluidez : juego familiar con suficientes opciones interesantes para divertir jugadores mas avanzados tambien. Comments from our Instagram blog Pictures soon posted here, for now on our boadgames pictures blog : https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwz9CFZDv1W/ (2 posts about this game) or https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvcc4BoDsqO/

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