Amen.

I think there are enough tabletop games in the hobbiest game space for everyone. That means there’s a very wide range of games from the simplistic to the complicated. I think if expectations are not kept in check, it can be easy to bite off more than one can chew.

Moreover, everyone’s going to find different things complicated. I’ve been in this hobby for decades. I don’t find Gloomhaven particularly complicated. I very much enjoy hex and chit war games. But god damn, I cannot wrap my head around Oath. There’s just something about it in which the rules don’t click for me.

One of the first things I do when considering a new purchase is head over to BGG and read some reviews. If it looks up my alley, then I’ll give the game a go.

ASL would like a word.

I just buy wider shelves for the wide-box games: https://imgur.com/a/otbkAdm

I don’t think I have the gene which lets me blindly trust someone with a transaction, heh. I research every game I buy. My money is guaranteed to be worth something. I want to know my game will be worth something in exchange.

That said, Volko Ruhnke, Eric M. Lang, Corey Konieczka, Rob Daviau, and Vital Lacerda are some of my favorites who are still active.

Mage Knight. This game threw me in to an unbridaled rage with how much I loathed it. I couldn’t understand why it was rated so highly. So, I went to BGG to see just how so many people could like this awful game.

Turns out everyone plays it cooperatively. Not a soul plays nor recommends the competitive mode; the mode I was playing in.

Starcraft, Doom, Exceed, Sniper Elite, and Space Empires are all brilliant. Personally, I think Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game is pretty good as well (although perhaps not for the price)

Not necessarily, no. 32-bit applications are going to be making calls to 32-bit libraries and referencing a 32-bit address space. If those libraries are missing and/or there’s no virtualization layer to translate the 32-bit calls, then the 32-bit apps won’t work.

The Pixel 7 is the first to drop 32-bit support. For what it’s worth, Apple dropped 32-bit support about five years ago.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re suggesting here. The application is 32-bit. It will not run on devices which only run 64-bit binaries.

I wasn’t much in to it. It plays very much like a co-op procedural. Each player just kinda does their own thing and occassionally shouts at the other players while the app applies constant pressure.

The meat of the game is just in doing your part within the imposed stressors of the game. For that sort of experience, I think Space Alert is vastly better (and not obsolete!)

Maori: Warriors of the Long White Cloud by Compass Games.