One reviewer said this game was not challenging enough. They were wrong. Monumentally wrong. The dice rolling and card matching mechanic works exceptionally well, creating a smooth and fast play sequence. The set up is fast and the play is readily remembered. With 6 expansions included, there is a tonne of replayability. The base game is challenging in itself.

The artwork deserves special mention. It is wonderfully exquisite and adorable. I love the detail and the whimsical colors.

A more detailed explanation of the different icons and symbols would have been useful to just be explicitly clear how airship building works.

For the price, this is serious tonnage of game.

This addition is a wonderful concept - taking the 3 individual games of the series and linking them all together in a campaign to become the overall chieftain. You can get some nice bonuses for the next game by collecting the runestones for either achieving victory or certain goals, meaning that you have to weigh up your overall strategy of how you play the individual game.

If you own all 3 of the base games, you need this!

Love love love this game! Great party game, more fun and easier to play than cards against humanity IMO. Hilarious meme potential and great playing over drinks with mates.

Lots of games are limited to 4-5 player so having Citadels play up to 8 is great!
Citadels is super competitive while being relatively easy to learn with quick set up and not too many fiddly games pieces.

Awesome game for larger groups! Extremely easy to learn and play making it great for parties and because its so easy and team based, most people will enjoy even if they are not huge board game fans

This is one of our most played games, simply because it is super easy for set up and with 2 people you can play a game in under 20 minutes. Hubby and I have regular 'coffee and carcassonne' mornings and sometimes even sneak in a quick game before work :D very fun and very competitive while not being too much of a chore for set up is always a big plus!

Love the expansion! New player mats, new food type, new goals and all the new NZ bird cards of course!
So much fun playing with our local birds and I prefer the new game mats and goals to the original game, slightly more balanced and just adds a new dynamic with the extra food type

This has become one of our flat favourites! It is a great strategy game that doesn't take too long to learn and I love the beautiful artwork for the birds and how well designed all the pieces are. Each game is very different in how you play and the strategy used depending and cards you pick up, the bonus card dealt and round objectives which means you can play again and again without getting bored

Stonemaier games know how to do it right. Great components and excellent gameplay. Tuscant EE adds some great modules to the base game of Viticulture EE.
If you thought Viticulture EE was good then buying Tuscany is absolutely gonna blow your mind. This is one of the few expansions that literally adds quite a lot to the base game and worth the money you spend. Again, not to forget that this comes with the solo mode too (automa cards).

If you are just getting into the hobby I would highly recommend this game. I absolutely enjoy the layers of decisions in a game that can be played in under 30 minutes. The tiles look and feel beautiful. This game looks unique and has a very nice table presence.

I and my wife really enjoy this game and we never hesitate to bring this to the table for a calm and relaxing board game experience.

Thanks to hobby game that we had our 1st copy delivered so well during the lock down.

This game is the one that scales well for larger groups (15 players !!). Highly interactive and can make people laugh and think like an investigator at the same time. Making up stories of a crime scene and trying to find the Murder is fun with a good amount of variation in each gameplay.
This game manages to fill the gaps and introduce additional mechanics that other social deduction games lack.

Three years ago, I played and completed the original Gloomhaven campaign with two other friends. I remember two things most of all: it was a marathon of a campaign and losing the first scenario. The original game was a hell of learning curve involving perk choices, when to play one-time use cards and how to communicate to the other players when in the initiave order I was going (without actually telling them). What I needed was a gradual easing into the game system, a fact sadly lacking from the original game. Enter Gloomhaven - Jaws of the Lion or JOTL for short. It introduces each core game mechanicsm over the first 5 scenarios, telling you their importance and role in the game as a whole. This helps to set you up for handling the remaining 20 scenarios with confidence. JOTL's other shining innovation is its quick setup courtesy of the scenario book which involves the act of merely turning to the appropriate page number and using the pictures there as the board. The game designer has listened to the players feedback and made the game easily accessible to more players with less setup time. It is not a true Gloomhaven as, understandably for the sake of brevity, some parts found in the original Gloomhaven, such as unlocking new characters (there are only 4 in JOTL) and rolling modifer cards are absent but cuts had to be made somewhere I suppose. However, you have a great dungeon crawl campaign with a teaching system to ease you in before it starts ramping up the difficulty. The innovative use of character ability cards to determine initiave that is so Gloomhaven is still there and there are some locked boxes that only become available later in the game. All this for a game that is less than a $100 and doesn't take up half you board game shelf.

Under Falling Skies comes well packaged to ease you into the game. The Campaign Mode is all packed into neat sections at the bottom with everything needed for the standard game at the top. You should not rip everything out in a frenzy-ala-Brian. The game utilises a dice-placement mechanic, but it also has a range of factors that enable a large degree of strategic variation. Another nice thing about the game is that it is a very quick set-up. You'll be battling nasties within minutes. The rules are well-written and should be read fairly thoroughly for some points to make sense. Under Falling Skies is a great solo game that really appeals - I love it. Beyond the two game modes, replayability is enhanced by differing levels of difficulty (simply flip the game board sections over for something truly "fun"). The only tiny criticism I would have is that the box is a bit thin and feels a little flimsy (stacking other games on top or your cat using it as a perch are ill-advised). Also, the sections of the board can slide about a bit, which is a bit of a pfaff. Yet, these do not detract from the fun that the game is. If you feel that a good solo game should pound you and your bones into dust for the first few games, Under Falling Skies will only too happily oblige. This is one of my favourite games and is becoming a regular presence on my table.

Love this game! It is a good light thinky filler.. It has the Patchwork x Calico feel to it.

It has a lot of replayability, We’ve played it almost 10x since we bought it. Quick and fun that is why it gets to the table often.

This is THE go to game for me. While it is not necessary to expand it, I would be very careful before opening that can of worms. Words like "addicted" and "obsessed" may be used in the same sentence as your name. This is a deck building mechanic where players co-operate to take out an evil mastermind. Players choose from schemes that have come from the comic books and events unfold according to those schemes. Players also try to score more victory points, so there is a competitive element to the game as well. The replayability is excellent with myriads of combinations possible among heroes and villains. In groups, it is a great game, but it plays excellently with solo gamers too. The artwork is excellent and worth mentioning for the sheer talent that has gone into it.