Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
2/5
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Description
Family mythological journey game where players navigate Odysseus through challenges with strategic choices
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Allies or Enemies Review at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Quick and light game
- Rules can be taught in a couple of minutes
- New players can pick it up easily
- Strategic opportunities in card drafting and set collection
- Double-layered player boards with a place for everything
- Provides context and a version of the Odyssey on the back of the rule book
Cons
- Thematic connections don't run too deep
- Theme isn't intrinsic to the game
Thematic elements
- The famous voyage of Ulysses
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — On your turn, you will draft one card from the outside edge of either side of the boat.
- Set Collection — The other strategic point is in the various set collection, as you balance colors, icons, and both advancing the tracks and placing cards in the tracks that you've advanced.
- solo mode — There is also a solo mode Play it against a light Automa opponent run by a deck of cards. It is super easy to run and has several difficulty levels.
- tableau-building — Odysseus is a one-to-five player a tableau-building game.
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- This game is not connected to the Christopher Nolan movie, which is awesome, by the way, and the general thematic connections don't run too deep.
- Unlike the famous Voyage, this is a super quick and light game.
- The rules can be taught in a couple of minutes, and new players should be able to pick this up easily.
- Where Odysseus will likely find its home is with folks who want a quick light tableau builder, as well as those who like the theme and enjoy the connections to the story, even though those are done with a pretty light touch.
- And that is it. Have you played Odysseus? What did you think? And what other light tableau builders have you played?
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positive
Pros
- Looks really interesting.
- Gigamic usually does really good games with these types of games.
Cons
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Thematic elements
- Follows Odysseus's journey.
Comparison games
- Acropolis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Top placement — And it's top I believe it's top placement.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, we have two more games to talk Oh, wait, no. I guess four more games to talk about because two to buy and two to demo. Wait, one more to demo, two buy. Oops, silly little figured.
- You're going to play and you're going to instantly get hungry cuz all the unique illustrations and of all the little treats are just
- This is a The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings and it is a roll and write. It is a roll and write.
- I understand the game being like very much you're playing the person on your right and you're playing the person on your left. You're taking the role of like the good and the bad in this game to uh go on against the opposite on the right and the opposite on the left and I think there's a lot of interactions that go on, a lot of communication that will have to happen around the table to make sure that the turns are flowing.
- I'm a huge fan of Sashi and Sashi and they will be debuting to move Railway Porters at UKGE.
- It is by Taiki Shinzawa and it's a trick taking game where every player has a condition that they must follow in their trick taking. But every condition is different.
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