It comes at a cost of one VP per power but could be just what you need in that critical moment of the game. The main bit of player interaction comes from the little power grab that you can do if someone builds next to one of your structures. Like Gaia Project players will be mostly keeping to themselves starting out. If Terra Mysticas buildings actually looked like little fantasy buildings or if the Cult track actually felt like something more thematic instead of just a board of four different colors that you needed to race up for points, well, I think Terra Mystica would blow Gaia Project outta the water with theme. HOWEVER Gaia Project does a MUCH better job in pulling that theme into the game more. It’s these little touches that make me like this game a bit more than Gaia. I love the little scrolls that are the end of round bonus cards, I love the fantasy based factions like the “Chaos Magicians” or the “Alchemists”. Now, that said, I vastly prefer this theme over the space theme of Gaia Project. I mean what’s the difference if the dwarves decide to go up the blue track and not the brown track? Nothing as far as theme is concerned. Each faction has a little different setup on the cult tracks but….it doesn’t really matter.
I mean it’s super fantasy generic and honestly you don’t really see the theme in the gameplay at all. Secondly you are working towards gaining mucho points by building up the size of your town as well as turning it into a neighborhood which unlocks special bonuses. Usually under these buildings is a new icon for MORE income during the income phase, so placing buildings allows you to gain even more income over time. Now this does a few things, first it opens up a spot on your player board where the building used to reside. When you transform a piece of land you can pay money and workers to slap down one of your base buildings on it. To expand your empire you must transform the land around you and to do that you must spend workers. You see each different character you can be in the game (7 double sided faction boards with 14 different factions) has a different terrain they can build on. Mostly though you will be transforming land around your starting structure so you can build even more structures. During this phase of the game, players will be spending that income they received to do all kinds of things. Now the actions, the meatiest part of the game, is where all the magic happens. These will be things like money or workers which are these little wooden cubes. For this phase you will just look at your player board and find any little icon with a hand and above that little hand will be another icon of what you can claim. After a decently strenuous setup phase getting all the little tids and bits setup on each player board and the main board each player will take an income phase. What do we have here? A game that plays VERY much like Gaia Project…and yet….I LOVE IT?! What is this heresy? Read on my friends, read on.įor those who have not played Gaia Project (which is VERY similar) I’ll quickly run down a typical round/turn of Terra Mystica. However the little devil finally found its way onto my game table and….wow.
Now I had read that it shared quite a bit with its younger sibling, which of course was the main reason I avoided it. Of course I also knew of Terra Mystica and that it was basically the older brother to Gaia Project. This ultimately turned me off of the game and I consequentially sold it (sad face). Beyond the large quantity of rules to learn and wrap my head around, there were just SO MANY variable ways to score and things to keep track of. Gaia Project overwhelmed me right out of the box. SO I went and bought Gaia Project and excitedly opened it up to find a plethora of goodies……TOO MANY goodies. Of course it caught my attention and also, at the time, I was looking for a nice space themed game to fill a proverbially void in my collection. You see awhile back a little game called Gaia Project came out and it was hyped up quite a bit. This is one of those games that I actively AVOIDED for a very long time.
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