Cyclades Review - Bidding & Battling With Ancient Gods

Cyclades is the first in the Matagot trilogy that I played and it still stands out as being an incredible experience, a game I love to own and love introducing others to, a game that is unfairly fun in how much the timing and bidding and planning of how you're going to win. Win the favor of Greek Gods when it counts the most, and if or when you ever get bored....there are expansions galore to pick from.

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:45 - Cyclades Overview
0:06:35 - What I Like
0:11:48 - What I Don't Like
0:14:25 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:17:15 - Final Thoughts

[lukejw]

Great to see Cyclades getting done love. It’s one of my family’s favourites.

[Gathanokos]

I got this game after watching your video a few weeks back and finally got to play it, proving that all the points you've made were indeed true! I loved the game in general but "pull back the winner again again and again until someone breaks through" is exactly what happened :P We thought the game was about to end in less than an hour when someone almost pulled off his first two metropolises...and this happened for literally all players and finally when everyone was at the edge of winner one actually did. XD

[PaulMazzoni]

I have been looking into getting this (which looks like will need to be a used copy), and this was a very thorough review that has me thinking about whether it's right for me. Thanks for the excellent review!

[sieq]

Hi Alex, quick question in 4 player game is the 4th good constantly unavialable or only during the first two cycles ? Otherwise thanks for review. This game is a gem and even my 60 year old mom liked it a lot and she much prefers usually playing Azul :)

[rolandrt]

Nice video, I wish there were more camera shots/editing though.

[manojgowda]

Hi bro I don't know will you reply I just want to shoot few questions
1)apart from kraken can we place other figurines wherever I want in the board?or only in the spaces I control?
2)how exactly the territory token works?

[andrewclifton]

How would you prioritize the expansions?

[kombainasable]

have you ever tried Evo? this strangely felt almost identical, just overproduced, even if designers differ and Evo was first designed before Cyclades designer made a mark on BGG. you may like Evo as cyclades version an adult could have playing with even (your) small kids (eventually). it's same bidding, small world style map (same designer), and more exciting premise (to me and kids), as you are evolving dinosaurs and bidding on mutations instead of boring athene :P

[PMMagro]

It is a good game. Very much easier to play with the titans expansion. More forgiving to new players and funnier with few players (not as dependant on the right God).

[logiclust]

Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants
Where the oranges grew

[johnpanagos]

Not a huge d6 unknown....
Sounds like the Dw_ _ _ _ _ _ s of unknown