Symbiose

Set collection but WAY too luck heavy. This game often plays itself instead of your decisions mattering due to how incalculable your position is with way too much face down, hidden information.

Regularly feels like you just gamble without any real evidence as to why you'd pick card A over B. Blue and orange colours award more pts, as well as some rarer animals, but due to not every card being used, they can often either show up way above rate or just barely... Neither are predictable or interesting, strategy wise.

Example: I opened the game with two cards that care about blue cards coming in your tableau, there's only 3 blue cards the entire game due to the way the deck was shuffled, and none of which were available to draft on my turn.

Example 2: When I win, it's often because the person before me flips a key card that works perfectly with the board state/synergies.

In both cases, what am I actually doing here? The whole game is driven by hidden information card flips and is pretending to be something more strategic than it is.

Better games in this genre, playtime & complexity:

• Arboretum
• Faraway

Extremely luck heavy and the result is determined by what your neighbouring players do.

Guessing game. Cool concept of scoring different segments but very little in the way of strategic choice when it comes to grabbing this card or that.

I hated this game. It felt maddening, and while I like the concept of being able to score based off your neighbors, in practice it made the game feel random, as you discard cards blindly and those may just happen to help another player. The final result was very unsatisfying and not something I ever plan to return to.

I dig the artwork, but the game is entirely chancey depending on what cards get flipped and if your opponents have a real point modifying you can't do much about.

Lame scoring-swapping thing. I'm not the audience.

Testé sur BGA à 2 joueurs, aucun intérêt que de la chance au tirage (gagnant avec que des points flat), à voir avec plus de joueurs

Not trying to hate on it. A fine enough micro game, but not enough substance to make me really want to play it.