Clinic: Deluxe Edition

EvEvanstar5.9

In this game players construct cynical hospitals where you hire doctors who each turn get one step worse at doing their jobs, and take on patients who you leave to languish in their illness until they get more profitable to cure. The interesting cornerstone of the game is the way you build out your hospital. You have a tight grid and many different tiles, each with it's own very specific placement rules. You want t build in such a way that your meeples can walk from adjacent tile to tile efficiently, which excitingly counts tiles on floors directly above an below them in additional to the normal directions. You also have a hard limit on the number of employees and patients you can gain which depends on how many parking spaces you've built. There are so many original ideas in this game, it's really a fantastic work, however it is very mathy, it's very unforgiving of mistakes and the minutia of what can go where gets a little but overwhelming in the context of everything else that's going on. It would have been nice for the game to include a tracker of some kind to keep an eye on your ever increasing upkeep costs vs your projected income. The graphic design has a few issues as well. Overall great experience, but largely a multiplayer solitaire puzzle that's just a little bit too complicated and just a little bit too long. ★ 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

Viciadosstar8.0

Fun game with too many rules, not a very fun to read manual, but after playing it gets better