Shimoda: Perry Road

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• area influence — Deciding where to place customers to score.
• Set Collection — Scoring points from customers.
• Worker Placement — Building shops and attracting customers.

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Quotes (from this video)

• I have rarely played a trick-taking game, or a two-person thing, that has made my brain smoke so much until you really figure out how to play it well.
• But the puzzle alone: when do I play which card, what does that do for the rest of my hand? That's just crazy.
• So, in a way: Faust has to accomplish a task twice, while the other person wants to prevent it from happening, and I think that works much better than Scotland Yard—no, not Scotland Yard, than Jekyll and Hyde, which I generally liked as well.
• And the expansion isn't just an expansion at all; it’s a standalone game.
• I believe over 200 are possible by now, and I’ll try that out sometime, too.
• It has the basic mechanics of Agent Avenue, and if you're thinking, wow, that Agent Avenue mechanic with the open offer and the face-down offer, you have to decide on something and one thing can be good for you, the other thing can be bad for you.
• I thought that was super, I thought it was mega.
• I liked that the artwork was designed so colorblind people can play it, even though there is blue.
• If you know how to play, you might be able to rattle it off in 45 to 60 minutes.
• And the other player also always gets to perform the action that is currently active for them.
• And the contracts are also very exciting because they are always designed so that one side of this card points toward me.
• If you like games like Beer and Bread or Wine and Cheese, then you will love Windmill Valley Duel—Flower Street Duel—
• I thought it was mega. It was super fun.
• But if I had the choice between Compile and Biters, I would always pick Biters, just because of this Mad Max setting, this post-apocalypse, we have these cool cars, we have this row of vehicles, we can always either drive with our cars, meaning swap positions with the car in front, or activate their special ability...
• And the problem is, we're not just driving for fun, we're fleeing an evil sandstorm, and it always swallows the last car.
• I think it's great thematically. I really feel the theme in this game. I think the artwork is amazing, and the only downside to the game is that I need four or five games, which are played in 10, 15 minutes, to get an overview of it.
• Because the effects are only ever written on one side. There is always so much empty space at the top; I would have really liked it if they were also printed on the other side with keywords or symbols.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area Control — Building competing shopping districts along a waterfront using shops to attract tourists and score points.

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Quotes (from this video)

• So, that's six Mondo games coming to Essen Spiel 2026, which one are you most interested in?

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