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Century: Spice Road Designer: Emerson Matsuuchi Artist: Chris Quilliams, David Richards, Fernanda Suarez Published: 2017 Players: 2-5 Playing Time: 30-45 Mins BGG Rating: 7.3 BGG Ranking: 352 Publisher: Plan B Games Mechanisms: Action Retrieval, Deck Building, Hand Management, Open Drafting Sleeves: 70x120mm   Game Description: In Century: Spice Road, players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory.   Quick play overview: Players take turns doing one of the 4 available actions until one player finished 5-6 Victory Point cards. Possible actions: Take a card...

Marvel United Designer: Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. LangArtist: Edouard GuitonPublished: 2020 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 40 Mins BGG Rating: 7.6 BGG Ranking: 300Publisher: CMONMechanisms: Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Solitaire Game, Variable Player PowersSleeves: 63,5x88mm   Game Description: In Marvel United you take the role of iconic Marvel Heroes cooperating to stop the master plan of a powerful Villain controlled by the game. Each Villain unveils their unique master plan, with cards that trigger different effects, and threats that pose challenges across the locations. Heroes must choose carefully the cards to play from their unique decks, that not only offer different...

Continuing the quick reviews of 9 games per month series. These will be smaller or children games that don't need a big review or games that I only played once and I cannot give a final review yet, but I would still like to share my initial thoughts on.   Chants for the Old Ones Published: 2024 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 60-90 Mins Publisher: Cthulhu ProjectMechanisms: Deck Building, Solitaire Game, Worker PlacementSleeves: 63,5x88mm, 70x120mm Gameplay & Replayability: 8/10 You are trying to make your cult the best one in town so that your boss-god would be the one who spawns...

Santa Maria Designer: Kristian Amundsen Otsby, Eilif SvenssonArtist: Gjermund BohnePublished: 2017 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 45-90 Mins BGG Rating: 7.5 BGG Ranking: 474Publisher: Aporta GamesMechanisms: Dice Rolling, Network and Route Building, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers Game Description: Santa Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity Eurogame in which each player establishes and develops a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting and strategic engine building. The game is low on luck and has no direct destructive player conflict.   Quick play overview: Players will mostly use dice from the common pool (and a smaller private...

Clans of Caledonia Designer: Juma Al-JouJou Artist: Klemens Franz Published: 2017 Players: 1-4 Playing Time: 30-120 Mins BGG Rating: 7.9 BGG Ranking: 65 Publisher: Karma Games Mechanisms: Commodity Speculation, Contracts, Network and Route Building, Variable Player Powers   Game Description: Clans of Caledonia is a mid-to-heavy economic game set in 19th-century Scotland. At this time, Scotland made the transition from an agricultural to an industrialized country that heavily relied on trade and export. In the following years, food production increased significantly to feed the population growth. Linen was increasingly substituted by the cheaper cotton and raising sheep was given high...