En Route: Special Edition Game Review

At this point in the “verb-and-write” board game lifecycle, you are in, or you are out.

A number of people in my network love these games, from Yahtzee! to the Welcome to… series to Euro-adjacent works such as Joan of Arc: Orléans Draw and Write to quieter efforts like the Next Station series. Hand me a dry-erase board or a pencil with a pad of paper, and let’s get to work by not talking to other players for 20 minutes.

A number of people in my network abhor these games; the lack of interaction, or the idea that everyone is using the same common elements (the same flipped cards, the same die results, etc.) to maximize point totals in private. Sometimes, I can feel other players staring at my sheet to see what I chose, in the possibly nefarious attempt to copy my action. (I’m not saying they are bad people…actually, maybe I am saying that.)

No matter what, you have an opinion. A couple years ago, I was exhausted by this gaming category, so thankfully we have moved on to trends like pared-down Euros (look, over there…it’s a lighter version of Terra Mystica!), two-player-only versions of games you know (a copy of The…

The post En Route: Special Edition Game Review appeared first on Meeple Mountain.