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Other Games / Re: What other games are as good as Dominion?
« on: August 01, 2011, 03:32:22 pm »
I like Puerto Rico a lot.
In this game, every player chooses his own course and while there can be some "evil" moments, it is mostly fair.
It is about building your own city and farms and producing, selling and shipping goods.
This is like Agricola, you have your own domain and decide how to build your own domain.
What I like best about this game is that every turn, every player does something, this keeps the action going and you're not just waiting for your turn.
I will not go into specifics much, but basically a complete turn goes like this: One player is the starting player (this rotates clockwise after each complete turn) and chooses a character. He gets a bonus from choosing that character and performs the action defined by that character. Every other player then performs the same action without the benefit. Then the next player chooses a character and everything is repeated. Once every player has chosen a character and gained the bonus and performed the actions, the starting player token rotates and you start again with the new starting player going first.
There is one character that doesn't have a bonus or action for the other players though.
You can get "lucky" because other players may choose sub-optimal or "unlucky" when another player chooses something that will only hurt you and not help him. If you are careful, you can prevent this from happening by investing in some buildings which protect you against these choices.
This game is very similar to Agricola in the fact that you are building on your own plate, but the mechanic of choosing actions is somewhat different and refreshing.
In this game, every player chooses his own course and while there can be some "evil" moments, it is mostly fair.
It is about building your own city and farms and producing, selling and shipping goods.
This is like Agricola, you have your own domain and decide how to build your own domain.
What I like best about this game is that every turn, every player does something, this keeps the action going and you're not just waiting for your turn.
I will not go into specifics much, but basically a complete turn goes like this: One player is the starting player (this rotates clockwise after each complete turn) and chooses a character. He gets a bonus from choosing that character and performs the action defined by that character. Every other player then performs the same action without the benefit. Then the next player chooses a character and everything is repeated. Once every player has chosen a character and gained the bonus and performed the actions, the starting player token rotates and you start again with the new starting player going first.
There is one character that doesn't have a bonus or action for the other players though.
You can get "lucky" because other players may choose sub-optimal or "unlucky" when another player chooses something that will only hurt you and not help him. If you are careful, you can prevent this from happening by investing in some buildings which protect you against these choices.
This game is very similar to Agricola in the fact that you are building on your own plate, but the mechanic of choosing actions is somewhat different and refreshing.
