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Year
2015
Players
3-8
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Description
New Salem is a hidden-identity, drafting, deduction, and set-collection game in which players are 17th-century founders of New Salem, where they hope to escape from the pestilence-filled streets of Salem during the infamous witch trials.
Righteous players need to keep the witches at bay and construct specific types of buildings while witches add pestilence to the new town without detection. If the righteous players can keep pestilence at a minimum, the one who scored the most victory points will win, but if there is too much pestilence, the witch who was the most evil will win.
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- Power Grid: it's mathy, it's spatial, it's been around forever.
- Dead Last is great. Goes up to 12 players.
- Carcassonne is a classic.
- This is a game where you're criminals and you've worked together on a heist, but now you're trying to screw each other over.
- Gatsby is a very tactical, in-your-face meme game.
- Piñata has the different lanes that you're playing for.
- Suburbia is an economic game you can lose yourself in building cities.
- Miyabi is a three-dimensional tile-laying game—brain burner but brilliantly designed.
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Top 10 List at 41:16 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- strong late-game tension
- works nicely with different player counts
Cons
- print runs have been inconsistent
- rules can be subtle for new players
Thematic elements
- artisan drafting with hidden objectives
- drafting/collection with a dark-conspiracy vibe
- clever, tension-filled decision space
Comparison games
- Biblios
- Ethnos
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — players pick cards to assemble sets and future moves
- scoring via sets and timing — end-game scoring depends on assembled sets and timing of picks
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Quotes (from this video)
- This started a whole new genre of games.
- Finca is underrated.
- Camel Up revitalized and broadened the appeal of betting-themed games.
- Splendor is a top 100 game.
- The second edition fixes a major problem that many people had with the first edition.
- Arboretum is two-player only and still shines with the right group.
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