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The Great Commission: Strategic Card Game

Game ID: GID0452367
Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
12+
Playtime
60 min
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Description

Cooperative tableau-building card game where players lead churches in the Roman era spreading the Gospel

Description

Cooperative tableau-building card game where players lead churches in the Roman era spreading the Gospel

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Wonderful strategic game
  • Lots of variety
  • Challenging but rewarding solo mode
Cons
  • Solo mode is quite tricky
Thematic elements
  • Leading a church
  • Roman era
  • Direct quotes from the Christian Bible presented in a graphic novel format.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — Players have two actions per round, choosing from outreach, discernment, intercession, prayer, or recovery.
  • Card Play — Players use cards for people and activities. Cards have multiple uses and can be played at various times.
  • cooperative play — Players work together to achieve the game's objective, with rules remaining the same for 1-4 players.
  • Deck building — Players build an event deck of seven cards and a world deck of 16 cards (12 people, 4 events).
  • hand management — Players start with a hand of six people and one activity card, managing these resources throughout the game.
  • Resource management — Players manage faith and wisdom values from church members to perform actions and gain spirit.
  • set collection — Players aim to recruit people from the world deck into their church.
  • Variable player powers — Leaders and church members have special rules and abilities that can be used during the game.
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  • So, that's what I'm doing because I do like it.
  • So, whether you're religious or not, whether you're interested in history or not, there's a wonderful strategic game in this little box.
  • The solo is quite tricky.
  • Right, we win by exhausting that deck.
  • All right, that's it. That's round one complete.
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