Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age Game Review

2024 was an exceptional year for the medium- to medium-heavy weight strategy game category.

I reviewed almost a dozen of them, including SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Windmill Valley, Daitoshi, Reef Project, Andromeda’s Edge, Asian Tigers: A Story of Prosperity, Pirates of Maracaibo, Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon, and many others. (And those were all from just the final five months of last year!)

In that vein, Board&Dice’s big 2024 fall release was Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age. Board&Dice gets it right more often than not, with solid entries from their catalog such as Teotihuacan: City of Gods, Tiletum, and Nucleum all ranking in the BGG top 300 or so as of this posting. Minos had a lot of hype coming into Essen SPIEL last fall, and now that I have completed three plays (one each at three, four, and solo player counts), I have some thoughts.

Here’s the short version: play it, but don’t bring many friends!

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Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age is a 1-4 player dice drafting, area control game with a series of tracks that grant the players a wide range of combo-tastic actions. The game was designed…

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