Libertalia

GaGarfieldstar9.0

#2.2 %Legendary Metal Coins Necromancer% We had so much fun playing this! A lot of interaction. Great variety with the 30 cards. [c] Theme: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Quite abstract --> Gameplay: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Choose a card... --> Interaction: ★★★★★ <!-- size 7]Great with the right group --> Artwork: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Nothing special --> Luck: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]There is luck involved, yes --> Strategy: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]But you also should have a strategy... --> Components: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Nothing special --> Play duration: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok --> Easy to teach: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Quite easy --> Setup time: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok --> No downtime: ★★★★★ <!-- size 7]It's played simultaneously, but sometimes a player takes longer to choose a card --> Replay value: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Different cards --> [/c]

MeMestremutenstar4.0

Rating: 2/5 Production value: 2/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1

EvEvanstar3.5

In this game, each player gets a deck of 30 pirates, and then 9 are selected and everyone gets a hand of those 9. Then 6 times, players play a card at the same time, and cards are resolved in number order. The cards punch each other, hurt you, hurt other players, ect. Then in reverse number order you grab a treasure from the pool of available. The sucky treasures are cursed for minus points, so grabbing last is bad. Then you carry over the 3 extra cards you didn't play into the next round and everyone gets 9 more cards that again are all the same. All this works out to be a sort of interesting game where you are building your hand round to round and trying to predict other player's strategies. The game can have downtime issues with analysis paralysis players and a lot of turns can come down to tiebreakers, which are all or nothing depending on the tiebreaker number of your card, which are all different based on player color on otherwise symetrical cards. It's also hard to plan between rounds as you only carry 3 cards into subsequent rounds and you don't know what the new cards will be. A lot of games like this do it for me, but this one just doesn't. ★ 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