Game Info
Year
1999
Players
3-5
Age
12+
Playtime
60 min
Complexity
2.5/5
Collection
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Description
A card game where players acquire shares of railroad stock create delivery routes claim freight runs and start passenger services to expand four competing railroads
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Getting Games Discussion at 31:01
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- cube-rails/card-like mechanics; limited copies
- New York rail era; historical routing
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-based / cube-rail style — a card game with rail-themed decisions; prototype components mentioned
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Quotes (from this video)
- it looks like this is a 60 to 120 minute game
- the balance between workers (which are warriors) and resources (which are livestock) are two sides of the same coin
- the more of uh one thing that you do the less of the other thing
- this is the next game coming out from delicious games
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Getting Games Q And A at 2:49 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I'm spoiled for Choice over here
- Trans-Siberian railroad is indeed excellent
- it was a joy to have the game go so sideways like everybody was just laughing like crazy
- I thought it looked super cool
- I'm actively excited I'm looking forward to playing that one
- there's a mountain of prototypes off camera
- Darwin's Journey was the first rule book I ever wrote from scratch
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