Wishland Review - Build Your Perfect Amusement Park!

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Wishland is a worker placement eurogame based on the management of a theme park. Through a series of rounds players will purchase different cards from the board to create their own and unique theme park.
The game last 7 rounds. At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points is declared the winner.
There are 5 different types of cards in the game:
Restaurants: Increases the base income of players.
Actors: Add additional workers, happiness and visitors. They also earn victory points at the end of the game with a set collection mechanic.
Rides: The heart of a theme park. You need a minimum amount of rides in order to enlarge your theme park. They also provide victory points.
Hotels: Some allow you to ignore some game rules, while other give you end game objectives or direct rewards related to the other types of cards.
Mascots: Can make a big difference in the end game. All cards of the game have an icon on them. Each of the 12 different mascouts gives you points at the end of the game for each card sharing icons with them.

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:06:44 - Ease of Play
0:07:30 - What I Like
0:10:12 - What I Don't Like
0:11:01 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:13:06 - Final Thoughts
0:14:14 - Recommendations

5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.

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[stevenbonham]

I know you didn’t include the expansion in the review. But any thoughts on if it would change your rating one way or the other? On the fence about this Kickstarter. Thx!

[xshadowscreamx]

I think there needs to be more worker placement games that are below a bgg 2.3 in complexity so i can introduce the mechanic to casuals. There is the grand carnival. Almost all the time as soon as worker placement is a mechanic it’s an automatic atleast a 2.4 in complexity.
This is a 2.6 and looks visually busy,

[enchantedears]

I don't know why, but the card aspect of this game reminds me of Meadow. Would you compare it to Meadow?

[marmar]

Habe you played "the Grand Carnival" ?

[KANDwrx]

a bit off topic, but 4 videos posted the last 24hrs and none of them address the Mythic Games fiasco?