Ofrenda Game Review

It was only my second turn of my second game, but I could feel my brain beginning to burn.

Ofrenda (2025, Osprey Games) is one heck of a puzzle. In the same week that I was doing my review plays of the Mighty Boards game Tenby, I found myself playing another “this-card-scores-based-on-different-adjacency-rules” game with my family. In Tenby, the complications arise immediately…how do I get this newly-added card to score, if the card next to it doesn’t have the right features to make it trigger and score end-game points?

However, in Tenby, those complications are limited, because cards can only be placed side-by-side. That means that I’m only ever really making decisions on two, maybe three cards on a turn.

Ofrenda, not knowing (or caring) that I was working through these personal problems, pushes the brain in a way that actually might not be fun for some players, despite offering a fascinating puzzle. It makes for a tricky recommendation, because Ofrenda very much feels like a game for a very specific type of gamer. And that gamer wants to feel the brain burn!

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