Age of Innovation

This is not a clone of Gaia Project at all, even if it shares core systems. I do not know which I prefer, but one thing I can tell you: if someone says "We're playing Age of Innovation tonight," I get so pumped.

A clean reimplementation of a classic. Love the variety that comes straight out of the box. Almost feels like there is an expansion already in the box. My only detractors are that setup can be pretty rough, the AP this game can create is pretty bad with the wrong type of players and the game can run a little long. But if you can get past these points, this is one of the best euro games out there.

This is a eurogame that combine the typical resource management with area control, and this is a very interesting combination, that makes it different to so many euros based on exchanging cubes. It is a great game to play with people and solo. It is unavoidable to compare this game with Terra Mystica (TM) and Gaia Project (GP), which are basically the same game, but with some variations. I have not played TM. Compared to GP I have not decided which one I like best. Regarding mechanisms I think GP is better because of the technology track that allows to be improving. Technology track in AoI is boring, just going up to get points at the end. However, GP is so dark and ugly that I get bored before starting just looking at the board. Also AoI is more tied and area control is more important, whereas in GP technology building is the key point. In summary, I fully recommend to include one of this three games in your collection.

After one play of this, a few plays of Terra Mystica and many plays of Gaia Project, I think this is better than TM, but still not as good as GP.

A solid one up of Terra Mystica. It's got the improvements of Gaia Project with a few new ones thrown in. Very much a plan of this version tho I dont love Terra Mystica.

Gut aber ich würde oft gaia Projekt vorziehen