Description
The original Century trilogy from Plan B Games featured three games. Setting-wise, 100 years separates each title. Spice Road, Eastern Wonders, and A New World were all designed by Emerson Matsuuchi. Soon after, Plan B reimplemented these into the Golem Edition. They redressed the setting, switching to a fantasy style and the resource cubes into gems. Century: Golem Edition An Endless World is the Golem equivalent of the third and final Century game. All Century games share the same core mechanism. You’re trading resources to complete contracts, worth points. You aim to achieve that in An Endless World using a worker placement mechanism. Throughout the game, players place their meeples on spaces that provide trade actions. Like in Spice Road (and likewise, the Golem Edition), at some point you’ll take action retrieval. (Where you ‘rest’ and take your meeples back. In Spice Road, you reclaimed your spent cards back into your hand.) The alternative is to place a worker and ‘bump’ other workers present in that spot back to your opponents. Placing in sought-after hotspots sees your own workers return sooner than you thought! Claiming contract cards (with required gemstones) provides end-game points. But that’s not all! They also contribute towards engine-building, which benefits your future placements. They become less expensive, and likewise all the more powerful in resource-gathering. Other cards reward you with unique set collection goals for end-game scoring. New areas on the board get opened up as the game evolves, increasing the options and levels of strategy. Weight-wise, the Century/Golem games come in at around the gateway, gateway-plus category. They’re easy to learn… but difficult to master. As a game in its own right, An Endless World provides a pleasant array of variety with every play. But an appealing add-on with the Century games runs tue with the Golem Editions, too. This series can intertwine with one another to create hybrid games. You can combine any two of the Golem games to create a blend of gameplay. Or you can integrate all three for a giant (or should that be golem-sized?) game! Player Count: 2-4 Players Time: 30-45 minutes Age: 8+
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