Boardgaming in 2020: the year of the, uh, post-minis era? We can only hope!

[Chris_Gwinn]

I was asking for a coworker, but I ended up ordering my own copy of Archipelago.

[Arioch]

Aw, I was sure you were talking about CO².

[sincilbanks]

@tomchick

@Chris_Gwinn

There was some game that was a hot topic of discussion here that was a competitive game but with a shared loss condition. So it was cooperative in that you had to all do but if you spent too much energy on the public good you would fall behind and not win the game. I think Tom wrote a review. I realize this is a super vague description, but does it ring bells for anyone?

Yep, that’s definitely Archipelago. Amazing bit of game design and easily one of my all-time favorites. And sadly, one that my group never liked as much as I did, so I didn’t get to play it as much as I would have liked.

The designer, Christopher Boelinger, did a dumbed down version with a sci-fi theme called Living Planet that I bought shortly before the pandemic. It’s no Archipelago.

-Tom

Ditto here, I love the game, my group hate it with a passion…

[jsnell]

Party like it’s 2021!

Boardgaming 2021: minis are back, baby!

I can’t wait! But I have to.

@tomchick can we lock the 2020 thread?

[BloodyBattleBrain]

Good point!