/pic1374907.jpg)
In Dragon Delta, you want to move your pawn over a system of bridge-like planks to the other side of the board. An easy task! Or at least it would be if everyone were working together, but alas you're not. Instead you're all working on your own right next to one another, each convinced that your way is best.
In game terms, players simultaneously select five action cards to be performed from the nine actions available and lay them down in order they are to be played. The turn is then resolved one card at a time. The actions allow players to place plank foundations, place planks, move their pawns, cancel other players' actions, or remove planks or foundation stones. As can be expected for a design with simultaneous action selection, the game is rather chaotic.
The 2012 edition of the game, River Dragons, includes a double-sided game board not present in earlier editions, with one side of the board featuring rock piles on which you place stones (as in the original Dragon Delta), while the other side has a featureless river on which players can place stones in any location.
- Fun
- Family appropriate
- Visually impressive (big version)
- Crossing a river
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Programming — Players program five moves ahead of time.
- Route Building — Players put down stones and planks to cross a river.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Your love for Reiner, Knitzia is... wrong.
- We have a similar taste in games. But we don't have... Do we have a, actually?
- I just think, come on now. Let's calm down.
- I need to have some time to load the visual because here it is.
- That's a trophy rule, I feel.
- I don't like deduction because I've had some bad experiences. I don't like feeling stupid, essentially.
- I have not played scythe in 2 years, I think. Good. It has 4 boxes. I think I need to get rid of side. I think everyone should get rid of scientist garbage.
References (from this video)
- beautiful production
- very popular
- wooden bridge components
- programming mechanic is frustrating
- reviewer dislikes player plans disruption
- river
- dragons
- fantasy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bridge Building
- Programming
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- these games have amazing table presence by which i mean people are going to glance across the room and go what is that person playing and i want to play all these games
- stacking games have table presence like nothing else
- looks beautiful it looks like a load of sweets on the board
- one of my favorite games of all time
- i don't like that sort of game i find that one of the most frustrating game mechanisms
- the central marble dispenser is your main draw in this game
- absolutely brilliant strategic game quite complex game
- it's actually my favorite of the mask trilogy
- i'm almost scared to say this but i don't really like azul very much
- biggest most overlooked game on this list