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Santorini

Roxley
2016
Santorini
284
BGG Overall Ranking
2-4 players
Best: 2
1.7 / 5
Complexity
20 min
Playing Time

About Santorini

Santorini is a re-imagining of the purely abstract 2004 edition. Since its original inception over 30 years ago, Santorini has been continually developed, enhanced and refined by designer Gordon Hamil...Read More

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6
1000rpm

Not really my kind of game, too abstract and thinky

7
12from1

This might soon become a "chess killer" in my house. Now now, I won't get carried away. I still play a TON of chess, but this game has such a great table presence (like chess sometimes does), is easy to learn (like chess), but can be tough to master (like chess). Perhaps its a hybrid between chess and tic-tac-toe. Which, on the surface makes it sound like a simple game. And at it's heart, it is. But when you add in the variability of the god powers, it takes on a new meaning. It's like the app "very bad chess" where the board is set up with all bishops and a king, and you have to figure out how to not lose. This game has lots of replayability through the variety of god powers - that I'll bet this gets more plays than chess for the foreseeable future.

7
1blindI

Jackson Birthday

7
1CHNUP

Such a cute little game! And really fun too. I think the appeal of this game is the god powers and trying to outmaneuver your opponent. 3-player games have been prone to kingmaking.

7
1point21gigawatts

Kickstarted - Available [-]November 2016[/-] January 2017

10
20171005

Fight against broken powered opponent with your broken power. It is like a war of Gods, quite naturally. Offense and defense are rapidly changing. Always be cautious or you lose.

update 20/04/17: After 2 months of play, I give it 10 out of 10. Combinations of powers, three kind of game boards, golden fleece and volcano variant give me massive variations of playing. Needless to say, core game system is quite solid. I can never imagine if I am bored. Only problem is not many people love this game around me.

8
2d20

Full KS. Great production, great game! Recently dusted this off, deserves to get played more. So good!

7.4
2goofy

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