I got the opposite problem. I sit at the table and then get a super easy, super random game that lasts an hour and I just get irritated to waste an entire hour doing something that I feel trivial and random.
I’d rather play a 4-hour complex game but with lots of player agency rather than a 60-minute dice fest.
yyyyyeah, 57 ratings on BGG is really low.
definitely imperial steam, although very rewarding to play once understood. it’s my favorite game in collection, tied with terraforming mars.
I saw a tutorial for Voidfall yesterday and I gotta say that game wins for the most complex ruleset out there though :)
I own most of the titles in the list, and they definitely forgotten about Imperial Steam.
this one looks great!
haptic buttons?? OH NO
very nice indeed!
it still relies on rolling the dices though. you can have a player hitting a perfect streak of 6 clean dices in multiple rows, and you might always crash while trying to save tokens. crashing at the wrong place is also very punitive, especially in a game where winning or losing is down to the last turn if all the players know the game well.
I have it. I find it very interesting but in all honesty it has a frustrating design. as soon as you learn how to trace trajectories, racing becomes so close to the point of being non interesting. and to gain an edge you start to rely on luck, which can destroy your race.
anyways Terraforming Mars hardly lasts more than 3 hours. I’ve had games at it that lasted 1h45’. It needs that everybody prepare their turn on other player’s turns, and when it’s up to you, you just execute what you planned.