Earth in about 3 minutes

Earth in about 3 minutes

Designer,Maxime Tardif,
Artist,M81 Studio, Conor McGoey, Yulia Sozonik, Kenneth Spond,
Publisher,Inside Up Games,

3 minute board games theme Music by Vic Granell

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[MBG]

I enjoyed Earth, but Earth is a mess as well. Both these statements are true. Its a great sandbox engine builder and you can do a lot in it, but its such a messy game in many regards. Fun, enjoyable and clever, but just a little sloppy in places for me to truly adore.

[christaggart]

I know you aren’t an Ares Expedition fan. I’m a huge fan of it. I just kept thinking “I wish I was playing Ares Expedition”. Ares scratches the same itch as this one does. I’m sure you have one that scratches one too

[ioannispaxinos]

Reminds me a bit of Meadow, which I was bored of after 2 plays. This definitely seems more interesting and deep than meadow, but would I rather play it over Gizmos or Furnace? Or something richer like Terraforming Mars? Probably not.

[Brynney]

Like this game a lot, but I do believe it suffers from a lack of player interaction still. It's a good thing everyone plays at the same time as the active player though.
Curious to see what the expansion will offer too as it was just announced.

[tiberiocamargo]

Fantastic Factories is my king for simultaneous tableau engines

[ragingpiano]

Me and the Mrs love Earth. Nice review as always mate.

[daneerickson]

It's a strictly worse race for the galaxy, isn't it? I'm not sure even the iconography is better. Maybe a better theme/look, but it's stock photos, not art. At least it's brighter?

Like others have said, though, race for the galaxy is so good that a strictly worse version can still be quite fun.

[jamvng]

Earth is very interesting to me. I like it for sure. But your points are very valid. It feels very open. Which is both good and bad, depending on how you see it and what you like in a game. It's mostly good for me. It feels good building a good engine; and when your cards come together well. It sorta fits nicely in between Wingspan and Ark Nova. I do think those two are better designed games overall, but Earth still has a place in my collection.

[WhatUpRob]

Chaos is right. Nothing particularly great imo about this engine builder that others don’t also do, and this game has that race to the end and gets points for doing it which isn’t fun imo. I didn’t see the mass appeal of this game. It’s fine, and I’d play it, but I’ll just as easy look at someone’s shelf and say oh what about that one instead.

[dryuhyitadza-nlzh]

I'm still lost and confused 😂 I need to be on Mars or other unknown planet

[RossHebden]

Had a fun time with this one for similar reasons but yeah goes a little long for the experience, even at 2p.

[Zilong]

This is my wife's favorite game. It's one of my favs. I can look past the chaos since I got so many plays under my belt. I know what cards to gun for. I know what colors to major in. There's something mechanically well going on in this game when you familiarize the ins and outs of some cards and realize which combo best together.

[ea_gaming]

Love this game, easily top 5 for me. It plays excellent at 2-5, comes in right at an hour for all player counts, +/- 10 min depending on each players AP.

[comanaut]

I hated this, the action selection felt really boring and obvious and running the engine fiddly and tedious. Everyone heads down with the simultaneous play, might as well have been playing a solo game. I’d rather watch an England football match… ok maybe not.

[dold_]

Played Earth a bunch on BGA, played a friend's copy once last year. So much of it felt like reinventing Race for the Galaxy to me, but if the cards were all devoid of personality and the action selection mechanism was more blunt. Every card feels so average that if I asked someone "What is your favorite card in this game?", they might not actually have an answer, or misremember the name. Doesn't help that you draw a billion cards every game and your starting setup is euro game mad libs.

I shouldn't be too harsh though, I would gladly play Earth over a lot of other games that come out these days. Its proximity to Race for the Galaxy (my #3 game) makes me more willing to play it while also being more critical of it.

[bconnoll]

I don't think I've actually heard the AP-inducing criticism elsewhere. I'd like to try this one at some point and see for myself