Review: Terra Mystica

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Terra Mystica has received much praise since its original publication in 2012. Born from many traditions and mainstays of Euro game design, it nevertheless innovated that same category through its...

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[G Mahler]

Like many games if this mid compelxity, I would recommend watching a board game playthrough on the Tube to help you become familiar with all the moving parts.....

[anto]

Apparently the easy AI timeing issues have been fixed in post release patches (there have been 2 already), so this might become easily a 5 star game.

[Neo42]

I'll be buying this soon.

[Cgareth]

"So while the learning aids are well-made and in all fairness rather excellent..."

For returning players maybe, I'd hazard.

I've never played the physical game and as such, am finding the online manual/tutorial very tricky. I can quite enjoy these cutesy character-driven tutorials, but given that this game is big on intricate details (costs/faction abilities etc etc), I'm often left frustrated trying to remember how the Power system works, or how to get hold of priests, or trying to figure out why I can terraform a tile to *this* but not to *that*, etc etc etc.

Ending up on BGG to find help, I see there's an excellent user-made player aid out there which I've had to download, print off and have it handy when I fire up the app. It's a very good game, but for me, learning how good, has been a trial!

[geigerm]

That 1-page aid on BGG is a life-saver--I look at that before most of my moves.

There's also a good, slightly more detailed thread on race-by-race strategies here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/1566 ... strategies