It’s not just like 7 Wonders but hits a similar sweet spot.
Those medals were rather unthematic, but the rest ties together well and the simultaneous turns keep the games moving quickly. After each phase, you get income and may buy statues (with culture) or claim colonies (with military) for points and to move up resource tracks at the end of each round, you have to have one food for each card in your tableau, and you can buy a ‘medal’ to gain points at game-end for your space on each track or for each set of cards in all five colors. In the second phase, however, players will get to draw from the discard piles from the first phase. There are five decks for each round in different colors, and on each turn in the first phase of a round, you’ll draw two cards from one of those decks, playing one and discarding the other to the board. The game has three rounds for different eras, with cards getting more expensive and more powerful in successive rounds. It plays in about an hour and there are enough cards to force some player interaction that it doesn’t have to be just a glorified solitaire experience.Ī great card-drafting game with a hint of 7 Wonders but a theme all its own, Hadara gets the civ-building card game mechanic on to actual boards, as players choose their cards from the central board and use them to move up four tracks (income, military, culture, food) on their own boards while building card tableaux for more points and money. When any player reaches 10 points, the game ends, and whoever has the most points wins.
Cards help you get the five “essences” that you spend to buy more cards or the more potent ‘places of power,’ which help you rack up a lot of victory points, or monuments, which are worth 1-3 points and usually give you a solid extra ability. Yet Res Arcana isn’t a deckbuilder or hand management game at all: it’s an engine-builder, and the challenge is to build the best engine you can with the cards you get. Refilling our hands after each turn is just how we do. It makes me all twitchy to not automatically refill my hand at the end of each turn. You only get to draw one new card from your deck each turn unless you get a special ability somewhere else to draw another one. Tom Lehmann’s hit game still kind of weirds me out a little, because you start the game with a deck of eight cards … and that’s it.
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