Marvel Splendor

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

What an excellent game, Firstly we are a family of 3 marvel fans two 30 somethings and a 4yr old. We have bought a few marvel board games and found them hard to understand at first but this game is different. I watched one video of a couple playing it online and after 20mins of that knew exactly how to play and what my strategy would be. We both really enjoyed how easy it is to play and the ease of the set up (it's hard to play the same strategy every game with a 4yr old girl demanding you get a spiderman every time!) The game took around 20mins and is fast paced enough to not get stale. The cards feel good and high quality and the infinity stones (poker chips) are sold, weighted and also have a high quality. If you are looking for a family game I would stop at this one and just get it. EXCELSIOR! UPDATE, the 4yr old is now 7 and can fully play on her own and knows the rules and can win with no help from an adult. I know it says 10plus but they can pick it up younger.

We've owned (and loved) the standard version of Splendor for a couple of years, and because our kids are huge fans of the Marvel films this appealed to us. It's a great tie-in, with a natural link between the gems in the standard game and the Infinity Stones. The game-play is simple, smooth and different enough to the original while still being recognisably Splendor - it's the same basic game underneath but with slightly different rules and mechanics that merit a slightly different strategy. The quality of the pieces is good too. The card deck is suitably robust with some quality illustrations of a wide range of Marvel characters (not just ones from the MCU films), and the coloured chips are surprisingly weighty, which gives a real feeling of quality. You don't necessarily need both the standard and Marvel versions of Splendor, but they're different enough to satisfy players, especially if you're fans of the films and comics.

This is a fantastic family game which requires strategic thinking but at the same time is a lot of fun. I have played other games like Monopoly and Articulate and this is not far off one of my favourite board games. There are a few rules but once you get the hang of it the fun is endless. If you like Marvel then that is an added bonus. The quality of the tokens and cards is also really good. The only downside to this game is that it is a maximum of 4 players but even then it does not take long for one game.

Great game. Original may be better suited for non-Marvel fans just for colour clarity of the tokens. Other than that this is the classic Splendor game that we love playing as a family. Nice game length of around 20-30minutes.

My 10 year old daughter really likes this game. It's for 2 - 4 players only, but is just as good with 2 as with 3 or 4. The more players the longer it takes - 4 players would typically take a good hour. The Marvel version is a lot more expensive than the 'classic' version even though I believe it's the exact same game, but the Marvel illustrations are great, and even though she's not seen any of the movies, she is familiar with some of the characters which adds to the interest. First time reading the rules and looking at all the cards and counters and it feels like it's really complicated, but once you start playing you realise it's actually very simple. There's a fair amount of luck involved, but you can play different strategies too, so a nice balance for families.

We have a range of ages in our house from 9+. To begin with, some of the fam were a bit bamboozled by the rules, but once played it has quickly become a favourite in the house. Quick games and everyone is fully engaged and competing!

Great game. My 6 and 8 year olds love playing. Although I've not played the original version, the Avengers theme seemed to make it easier to learn the rules. Pieces and cards are good quality. Takes about 20 to 30mins per game. Kids play on their own and don't need an adult (although I'm always keen to play) . Nice to play a game based on skill and the decisions you make, not on luck. Definitely reccomend!

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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Un super jeux, je passe de super moments avec mes enfants (10 et 14ans) . Le thème Marvel est très bien utilisé. Le matériel de qualité…

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.

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