Ayar: Children of the Sun Game Review

The proof is in the pudding—where Fabio Lopiano is involved, solid Eurogame design seems to follow.

Friends in Chicago know how enamored I am with Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, a co-design brought to us by Lopiano and Nestore Mangone, the latter a growing legend in his own right thanks to Darwin’s Journey. 2022’s Autobahn (another Lopiano/Mangone co-design) was solid too, even if I thought the physical production was at times a bit fiddly for my tastes. 3 Ring Circus was great too, a solid medium-weight experience from the games I tried in 2023.

I still haven’t even played Lopiano’s first major design, 2017’s Calimala (with a second edition hitting shelves earlier this year), and you can bet your bottom dollar that I’m going to be lurking near the Alley Cat Games booth at SPIEL Essen this fall in the hopes of getting a review copy of the next Lopiano/Mangone release Baghdad: The City of Peace. (And, speaking of Shackleton Base, you know “Shack Town” is going to get an expansion…because, well, you know.)

Lopiano has figured out efficiency puzzles, and he is working with some of the best people in the industry. Alongside designer Mandela Fernandez-Grandon, Lopiano’s second release of 2025 is Ayar: Children of the Sun, the third game in…

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