Space Cowboys | Marvel Splendor |Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2 to 4 Players | 30 Minutes Playing Time

Pros - Easy to learn and teach. - Fast to setup and play (less than 30 minutes). - Small table space is enough to play. - Simple and smooth to play but still requires strategy on what tokens and cards to collect. Can definitely be played after a long day at work. The few game components and the fast gameplay definitely is a plus. - Addictive. You would always want try try it again after a game. It's like poker, there is not much game variation, but it is exciting to see how it unfolds. It creates an addicting feeling that you want the next drawn card to be something that you need or want. - The game is replayable. As of 2024-05-08, I have already played it for 190 times! Although most of that is the digital version of the base Splendor (not Marvel) through Board Game Arena. What makes it replayable is the competition and tension among players and the addicting feeling of wanting the next drawn card to be something that you need or want. The strategy in the game will not change and the actions you are doing is repetitive which is collect tokens to collect cards to collect more cards, however, it is the race and competition on the available tokens and cards that will make you adapt and decide on what to do for every turn and the constant exciting feeling of seeing the next drawn cards. - The race! This game is a race, just like Century: Spice Road. You have to be first in getting the cards with the wanted color, the wanted tokens, the scoring cards, and of course be the first to reach the needed points to end the game. All of this creates a nice tension and results to tactical moves. - You can play the base game Splendor with this Splendor: Marvel. - The mechanic they added here that you need to have all different colors and 1 from the level of the highest valued cards makes this game more interesting than the original base Splendor. In analogy, this is like the game Agricola where you have to diversify and not just concentrate on 1 aspect, which is something that I want in games. Neutral - It is multiplayer solitaire... for half of the time only! The other half of the time could be used to make the life of your opponents harder. - This could be a cutthroat game. You're not playing Splendor right if you are not cursing at your opponent for hoarding and keeping the tokens or cards that you need. - A player can be locked out of moves and forced to do inefficient moves, which doesn't feel nice. If you drafted what others need, their life will be so much harder, and will result to them needing more turns, and thus benefiting you further if you can end the game faster. THIS IS IMPORTANT. If you played it this way, your soft-hearted opponents may not want to play Splendor anymore. - Repetitive gameplay. It is replayable, but the actions you are doing will be repetitive. This game shines in its simplicity. But if you are looking for more variations, Point City and Century: Spice Road might be better. - Similar to the other game: Century: Spice Road. - Both requires you to gain enough resources (symbols in Splendor, cubes in Century) to gain point cards - Both requires you to strategize on gaining those resources in the most efficient way. - But Century is a better game overall because what you are doing varies for every turn and for every game as it is influenced by the cards you collected which means there are more strategies in Century and there is more depth, unlike Splendor where it's always either collect resources or buy cards. - Don't get me wrong though with replayability because as of 2024-05-08, I have only played Century: Spice Road 4 times but Splendor 190 times as Splendor flows more smoothly and is faster. - Similar to the other game: Point City. - Each turn in Point City is more interesting than Splendor as you take adjacent resources / buildings and target to score the civic tokens. - In Point City, you just have to take the most efficient move for every turn until the end of the game. You also know exactly when the game will end. There's not much tension there. You can draft what others need but it may not be optimal for you and may actually not have any effect if the newly drawn cards offer something better. - Less cutthroat. In Point City, players always have different options. - Point City is more varied from game to game due to the varying civic tokens and thus varying engines you could build from game to game. In Splendor, the only difference from game to game is the color you are collecting. Don't get me wrong though with replayability because as of 2024-05-08, I have only played Point City 10 times but Splendor 190 times as Splendor flows more smoothly and is faster. Cons - The box is so big and heavy (heavy because of the heavy tokens) that this game pretends like it is as epic game like War of the Ring when the gameplay is just like Point Salad / Point City. You could fit everything in 1/4 of the box. The game is not portable and is hard to carry around. They could have easily designed this to be in a Tiny Epic game box. --- Now, here are is my initial beginner comment, which I have already proved to be wrong! - The game is multiplayer solitaire. While there is a common pool of cards and tokens to select from for all players, however, overall it just feels like all of you are just doing your own separate thing most of the time without talking. Not fully a negative because there is still some interaction like in my last game, I won because I was watching what my opponent has. I looked at my opponent's available tokens and cards and based my decision there. I won and after the game, she told me that I made her life very hard during the game, well, I just made Splendor a cutthroat game. - WRONG!

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El juego es genial, las reglas son super sencillas, y son muy fáciles de recordar, en verdad se aprende muy muy rápido. El juego es muy divertido por sus mecánicas, no tienes que ser fanático de marvel para disfrutarlo, si te gusta marvel solo es un plus, pero en verdad incluso una persona que no conozca nada de marvel puede pasarlo muy muy bien. Ahora si además te gusta marvel, el diseño es excelente, las ilustraciones de los personajes es genial al igual que la temática. La calidad de los componentes me parece genial y más para el precio. Un juego independiente del idioma, las cartas y ninguno de los componentes tienen texto, salvo el nombre de héroes o villanos, por lo que puedes descargar en Internet las reglas en tu idioma y listo, o más fácil aún buscar un video tutorial en YouTube de no más de 10 minutos y estas listo para jugar. Muy recomendable.

Its a very good game! Pricy, but it’s very interesting for a group game, 4 players max, Fun and Interesting Teenagers and Adult can play