Renegade Game Studio | Arboretum | Card Game | Ages 8+ | 2-4 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

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Renegade Game Studio | Arboretum | Card Game | Ages 8+ | 2-4 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

Renegade Game Studio | Arboretum | Card Game | Ages 8+ | 2-4 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

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There’s nothing in the box except a deck of cards and a rule book, which is really more of a pamphlet. That’ll depend on what cards you have had dealt your way, of course, but there’s no harm in planning ahead. Just playing cards and building an arboretum with this scoring system would be hard enough, but it gets worse because you have to discard a card at the end of your turn and someone else can take it!

The game generally moves pretty fast, although you might run into some AP-related slowdown if you’re playing with AP prone players. And I think that at 2 players, having that duelling sense in the gameplay and fewer species to fight over, intensifies the feelings in Arboretum even more. So you have to balance what you play to your arboretum against what you’re keeping in your hand to win the right to score your path, all while watching what your opponents are doing so you don’t discard a card that will enable them to score big. Playing a card involves placing it down in front of you, adjacent to another of your cards, unless of course it’s your first turn.You never know what an opponent has in their hand, other than what you see them pick out of discard piles. This is a highly-interactive mean game, which is something I like, very different from games like Wingspan where you better just play it individually in your own houses without talking and the experience is the same. There is great strategy available here and the decisions of what to play and what to hold has massive implications not just for you but your opponents. All of this is well and good, but the devious twist of the endgame is not on the table; it’s in the hand.

When a game slithers under my skin so insidiously that losing to my Bearded Moon causes my eye-balls to steam up and my hands to slam down in a visual display of seething wrath, we have a keeper. You also receive a short rulebook and a scoring pad both of which are pleasant and in keeping with the game’s general aesthetic.

Part of it is that the game length can increase as players struggle with figuring out where to draw from (and the options will increase because you’ll have more discard piles to choose from) and that doesn’t jive well with the fact that it might all be for nothing if your opponent decides to mess you up (and manages to follow through on it). So, we’re starting to pivot slightly from Gen Con games to Essen games, which is good and fun, but I still have plenty of Gen Con games to get through, so let’s not leave that totally behind just yet. You can get one point through the positive action of planting a tree, or if you save the right card you can remove 5 from your opponent.

You want to score and prevent your opponents from scoring, you want to take your chances on all card sets that you have but there is only a 7-hand limit, you need to discard 1 card from your hand every turn.Play a card to your arboretum – during the course of the game, you will be building your arboretum, which is really a rectangular array of cards. Arboretum, you create carefully planned paths for your visitors to walk as they take in the colorful explosion of buds and leaves. If Dave's mrs had a run of 1-5 in her hand of 7 cards, yeah, it would beat out Dave's 8, and she would get to score that suit - only, she then probably wouldn't have any of that suit on the table to actually score. If no one else is going for blue, you have better odds than if someone else is also going for blue, for example.



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