Today, I played Stone Age.
Stone Age
Stone Age is a temporary worker placement and resource gathering game. Players take turns placing workers in various places: resource gathering, food gathering, and benefit gaining places. Then the players take their workers back, gain the benefits, and the next player in the order starts placing their person down. Certain buildings and cards that you can buy give players victory points. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game wins. In the game I played, I won.
The worker placement mechanic is used to very good effect. Gameplay is fun and balanced. There's not a whole lot of bad moves you can make, just good moves and very good moves. The mechanics fit together well; they create a cohesive experience. Many strategies can be pursued.
The rules were very simple, and gameplay was smooth. There were basically no questions about rules.
It was a pretty friendly game. There was some blocking done to me to prolong the game, but I could still benefit myself through other actions. You can mess up people's strategy, but this is usually very short-term.
In conclusion, a very fun, simple, game, with interesting use of worker placement. I really want to get this.
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