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Year
2018
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Description
Centuries ago, the lucrative spice trade compelled the prosperous nations of the world to explore alternate routes to the sources of these precious goods. These nations took to the seas to seek out exotic lands. This led to the discovery of the famed Spice Islands where the most valuable spices of the world were found. This discovery also led to further exploration, competition....and later, war! During this time of prosperity and opportunity, you find yourself traveling on the high seas in search of these exotic wonders. As a merchant and privateer representing your nation, you seek to control this region for glory and profit. Your journey continues in the Far East...
Designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, Century: Eastern Wonders invites fans to return to the exciting world of spice trading as players take to the high seas in the role of merchants seeking to prosper in the exotic Indonesian islands. Century: Eastern Wonders offers new, satisfying game mechanisms that provide infinite replayability and countless strategies.
Century: Eastern Wonders can be combined with Century: Spice Road to create a new gaming experience called Sand To Sea!
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Getting Games Playthrough at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- effective use of upgrade bonuses and ports
- flexible movement via extra ship moves
- strong late-game scoring via port tiles
Cons
- board congestion due to many outposts
- some suboptimal decisions by opponents affect pacing
Thematic elements
- spice trade and maritime commerce
- each player takes on the role of a merchant who is sailing from island to island trading their spices so that they can ultimately go to port and ship these spices overseas in the form of a bunch of victory points
- commentary with on-table teaching during play
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cargo hold management — players hold resources in a cargo hold (capacity limit); conversions and harvesting move spices into or out of the hold
- end game bonuses — placing outposts can trigger upgrade effects and grant access to bonus tiles (e.g., extra cargo hold, extra ship movement, or resource upgrades)
- Harvest action — harvest actions take two ginger from the supply and place them in the cargo hold; bonuses can grant additional resources during harvest
- outpost placement — build outposts on tiles; cost is one resource of any color for every previous outpost on that tile; if there are no previous outposts, the cost is free
- port tiles and endgame — port tiles grant points when activated; drawing new tiles occurs; endgame is triggered when a certain number of port tiles are claimed
- resource conversions on market tiles — market tiles allow converting one resource into another; you must have an outpost on the tile to perform conversions
- ship movement — the first move is free; every subsequent move to a new tile costs one spice from your hold which you must place on the spots passed through
- upgrade and bonuses — placing outposts can trigger upgrade effects and grant access to bonus tiles (e.g., extra cargo hold, extra ship movement, or resource upgrades)
- worker placement — build outposts on tiles; cost is one resource of any color for every previous outpost on that tile; if there are no previous outposts, the cost is free
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Quotes (from this video)
- we're going to be the start player and we're going to be playing as the pink player
- the basic harvest action is that you take two of the ginger cubes and put it into your cargo hold
- the structure of a turn is really quite simple
- the goal of this game is trying to achieve these tiles over here
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No Pun Included Review at 2:14 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Elegant integration of engine-building with route planning and set-collection
- Rules are simple yet unlock deep strategic depth through stations and card-driven choices
- Beautiful physical components and thematic spice color variety
- Strong sense of theme and tactical variety when stations unlock abilities
- Replayability through end-game incentives and flexible routes
Cons
- Pacing can feel slow and plodding, especially with four players
- High potential for analysis paralysis due to heavy planning
- End-game can feel abrupt if you mis-time your final trades
- Limited variety of island tiles can reduce freshness on repeated plays
Thematic elements
- Trade, exploration, and optimization of multi-step cube exchanges through island markets and station bonuses.
- An archipelago trading world where players voyage between islands, collecting and delivering spice cubes to ports to earn profits.
- Array
Comparison games
- Century: Spice Road
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Quotes (from this video)
- Century: Eastern Wonders is a game of having a little merchant boat that goes to places and eats cubes and then poops out the cubes.
- The hold can only hold ten spices regardless of color, so increasing your supply doesn't automatically help you.
- This is an elegant masterpiece; the simple paragraph of rules turned a potentially unplayable setup into a brilliant engine.
- This little engine that could is a speeding locomotive.
- You're never bound to the same boring and comfortable experience; each turn pushes you toward new lands.
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