Aeon's End Reviews

  • missiloonmissiloon422,271
    01 Dec 2019
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    Game info:
    This is a digital version from the most amazing Board Game there is at this moment (in my opinion). I love to play Aeon's End IRL and own every expansion and base set there is. It is my number 1 favorite board game now for 3 years, so I was very happy to see a digital version of this game.

    This is a cooperative deckbuilding game with a twist.. you don't shuffle your deck. Every turn you discard caste spells first since you had to prepare those in previous turns, after that the cards you buy go to your discard and at the end of your turn every card you played goes to your discard pile in the order you choose. This can be very important because there are cards that are a great combo together and you want to keep those together. Also important, You can choose to don't play some cards and keep them in your hand to wait till you're able to make the combo. At the end of your turn, you refill your hand till you have five cards in hand.

    You play as some mages that try to save the world from an evil monster, a nemesis. You win if the nemesis is dead or when his nemesis deck of cards runs out, so waiting it out and stay alive is one strategy, full-on attack is another, and I mostly go for that one. You lose if all mages lost their health or when the city you try to protect has fallen, that also has a health value. At this moment they have added 4 nemeses to the game and 8 mages. In the board game, there are countless mages and nemesis, so I expect that if this game is a success they might add new nemesis and mages with DLC packs.

    A good thing to know, during the game and in the tutorial tells you most of the time to "drag" a card to some other place. In almost all of those cases just simply click on the card also works, which is great because dragging cards after a while can be annoying. I wish they would just tell the player that clicking on them also works in those cases where it works.

    Achievements info:
    A few of the achievements in this game aren't so hard, but most of them are extremely hard and will take you hours and hours to get them. Examples of those hard achievements are win from all nemesis on Extinction difficulty or win with the city and your mages all on 1 health, or all with full health. If you really like a challenge and love card games, this is the game for you.

    Pros & cons:
    + good implementation of an amazing board game
    +- a lot of source material for more expansions
    - games tell you to drag cards, but most of the time clicking on them is enough

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