The more you play it and become familiar with the cards in each deck, the deeper the gameplay gets. It comes with 9 decks of different 'peoples' fighting for supremacy, and it is very fast-paced: each turn, you must either play a character (plus support cards) to match your opponent's strength, or back away from the fight and start a new one. That's the kind of swings that can happen, and I love about it. I still won the game, but by just a single domination. First action she took that 1 I had, second she got like six 8's þ That's when my girlfriend stumbled upon an attack card that stole all the lowest cards in my IP pool. I was a couple of dominations away from winning when I lost the card, but that didn't matter much because I was already filling my IP pool with 8's. Like, I once used Mathematics(?) to climb up to age 8, dominating the odd age along the way. All the cards are either useless or overpowered in the right situation, while GtR's cards are more like straight rocket boosters to your romepunk engine. GtR is about building and abusing wonky combos and finishing in a grand turn or two, while Innovation is about abusing the game state until the other player can outdo or break your engine. If you can call GtR a racing game, Innovation is a tripping and shoving race, with the players on unicycles. The possibilities for Epic card synergy are - like RftG, but maybe even more so - staggering. It reminds me of both SR and RftG, in that each turn can push the game in a different direction, and it plays fast, and (if you use the excellent snake draft suggested in the rules) there is even something like the center row from SR. You're probably already aware of Epic, the card game from the makers of SR, but if not then you should be. It also has an excellent app you can check out. I think Summoner Wars, which plays quickly and has deep strategy with an option for deckbuilding, may serve your needs. Star Realms is very much like Ascension, which has a good app for the iPhone. In my humble opinion, the base game, or the base game +1 expansion, does not offer the multiple paths to victory you are specifically looking for. r/tabletopgamedesign - Designer's subredditĭominion is not for everyone and may not meet your criteria.r/boardgameexchange - selling/buying/trading games.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add ' /u/r2d8 getinfo' at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified.

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