What I Played Today: May 7

Imperial Settlers

I bought Imperial Settlers, because it was finally available, and I wanted to have it, but I have no one to play with right now, so I decided to play the solo game, and...it was fine. The game really doesn't do much to engage you or restrict you when playing solo, just throwing in the possibility that some of your buildings might get trashed during the game by an invading party. But it doesn't happen often enough to really slow you down. One time I had a castle get taken down, and that sucks because I wanted to use it, but whatever. So it's pretty easy to just focus on building the most effective engine possible, because in most cases, there won't be anything to stop you, while in the main game, there's other players who can see what you are up to and decide to just snap it if they think you're getting too far ahead.

So yeah, the solo game isn't great. The game itself is still fun though. I like this game.

What I Played At Some Point: JoCoCruise

One Night Werewolf, Imperial Settlers, Red7, Sheriff of Nottingham, Concept, Glass Road, Battlestar Galactica, Exploding Kittens, Johann Sebastian Joust, AquaSphere, Two Rooms and a Boom, Pairs, Lost Legacy, Dixit, Story Wars, The Resistance, Rock Band, Fantasy Life

I have been away on a cruise! A hip cruise, named after a guy with long, puffy hair, so it's okay, I'm not a huge nerd. That's not what this cruise is about, despite the insistence of literally everyone else I was with on the boat.

ANYWAY, this trip was mainly about playing board games in the best game room on the high seas. New games, old games, any game! That's why I went, for the great game room and maybe for some showing off. So let's go through what I played over the long week, possibly in alphabetical order.