Build your own town in Flip City! In this micro-deckbuilding game, you have no hand at all; instead, you play cards directly from the top of your deck. Each card is double-sided, with each side granting different special bonuses. Winning the game requires delicate strategies... and some luck as well!!
On a player's turn, they play cards directly from the top of their deck to acquire cash and victory points. They may continue playing cards as long as they have fewer than three "unhappiness" icons in play. If they do get three icons, their turn ends immediately, but if they stop before then, they can use their cash to either buy a new card or flip over a card they already own, transforming it into a new, upgraded card. Upgraded cards typically grant more cash and VP as well as the option to flip them back to their non-upgraded side in exchange for an extra one-time bonus.
If a player gains eight or more VP in a single turn, the player wins immediately!
- Building and flipping
- Mystic Veil
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- Deck building — Deck building with blackjack style push your luck
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- It's sort of like war with actual decisions
- It'll take two minutes
- That was amazing. I wonder if that game is like that every time
- It turns out that it was
- So many card games following it have been inspired by that obviously
- The coolest combo you can make in Mystic Veil is like here. The coolest combo you can make in Mystic Lands is like here, right? And the average is like there
- What I made, right? Even if you didn't win, right?
- The most unique way that I have ever encountered an engine builder
- An unbelievably satisfying gameplay experience to destroy
- Betting is like a way to make people care about an outcome
- Poker is a terrible game if you're just playing it right? Uh but the second you're betting with money and you care, right?
- Why do we root for sports teams, right? Like our the day after go Dodgers
- The sitting back and then seeing what happens - yeah there is a really fun aspect to that
- Train making time. When all the technology moves to a certain thing, everybody is making trains, right?
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- Weird mechanics
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- Shelf 16 is kind of a an odd mix here
- This shelf has twice as many games as most shelves
- one of my favorite two-player games, but it's very difficult to learn and play
- Fantastic abstract strategy game
- Such a classic game and I like it a lot
- I don't know why I like it so much, but I do
- one of the most beautiful dexterity/party games there are
- There are so many games on the shelf