Hoo-eey it’s been a wait, but Dungeon Degenerates finally came back in at a domestic source and I just snapped up a copy. I resisted grabbing anything else for the moment; by all accounts the core box is pretty chock-full anyway. I did feel a slight pang of regret about leaving out the settlement expansion though, but I’ll live.
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I bought Kashgar - Merchants of the Silk Road, and preordered Cat in the Box
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Just had a small birthday celebration in my wife’s hospital room with her parents, her sister and ker kids. They got me Rococo Deluxe, that game is DECADENT.
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Happy birthday! Hope you get the chance to enjoy the game soon.
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My partner has been extremely busy lately and didn’t have a lot of time to shop for my birthday. She then made the mistake of taking our children with her to the game store and they (4 years, and ~3 years) “helped” pick out games for me.
Aquatica – I actually already had; she saw the expansion listed on my wishlist and didn’t realize it was the expansion. I’ll exchange it in the next couple of days
Underwater Cities & Underwater Cities: New Discoveries – this one rarely shows up on the secondary market which is sometimes an indicator is a great game. I like some of Suchy’s output, so this was pretty high on my wishlist
The Mind – was chosen because of the bunny on the box (my partner didn’t realize it was actually on my wishlist)
Fortune – I think it was chosen because “it’s pretty” (by the 3-yo). I’ve been interested in the Fast Forward series, so I’m pretty excited about it, even though I think it’s rarely anyone’s favorite of the series (from what I remember of people talking about them before the never-ending onslaught of “the next best thing” pushed these out of the reviewer purview)
It was a reality good birthday. I’m actually shocked that my partner bought me any games at all, because she’s pretty sure we have enough.
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Purchased Mare Nostrum: Empires (2016). Came with Mare Nostrum Atlas expansion, Mare Nostrum Buildings and Mare Nostrum Resource Chips. Brand new. Gonna take awhile to learn it but from what I hear, if you like and can handle Ti4, then this will be great as well. Will see how long before I make it a PBF version.
Has anyone played it before?
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I have played it once. Didn’t leave that much of an impression. It wasn’t bad.
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Shelfie Stacker,good price, looked like a good game
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And another game that was on sale, Century Golem Edition: Endless World. I have
Century: Golem Edition already, and my group seemed to enjoy it.
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I regretted not backing Paint the Roses last year so I preordered the basegame from an onlineshop after spending a month or two circling that “preorder” button 
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Ooh.
We played it with @mistercrayon at the weekend and loved it. Trying to find somewhere in the UK to get an order in.
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Sometime between when SUSD gave it a middling to bad review and then later recommended everyone buy it for Christmas, Miniature Market was fire saling it for that much. Amazing how the tides turn.
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Separately: A few impulse purchases to report. Man I love impulse purchases. When they hit, it feels like magic.
Ark Nova: To me this looked like a Terraforming Mars that might actually work. Zoo themes are easy to get to the table. Plays 1. We’ll see; I’ve noted a few negative impressions floating around as well.
Planet Unknown: I know almost nothing about this and now that I’ve hit purchase I’m keeping it that way. @Yashima said it was her favorite polyomino game. Saw it plays 1-5, asymmetric, simultaneous, and with an exoplanet colonization theme. Then MiniMart was pre-ordering it for like $8 below competition so I felt like I was getting it on sale. We’ll see!
Ra: Saw this kickstarter on the last day of funding, just based on a comment somewhere on here. I’ve never loved the app but never heard anything but praise from the real world. We’ll give it a spin.
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On a bit of a whim I picked up Tokyo Sidekick from a local shop the other day. Not much to go on in terms of opinion online but the premise was cool enough to take a poke (I came very close to backing it when it was live so this wasn’t entirely random). It’s a fun little production in a gigantic, absurd pancake box, and the board will make shrinking the damned thing nigh-impossible… still I’m hoping it offers a fun experience?
Dammit, should not have checked the Top 7 Hidden Gems video, ended up (pre) ordering Wormholes and Village Rails
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Wormholes was the one that appealed to me most from the video. I’d be sorely tempted if I felt I knew it was around a 60 minute play time consistently. We’ll see how long my not buying strength remains if I can start playing more consistently again…
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Spacebiff didn’t seem to think so much of wormholes, if you want an alternative perspective to maybe save you some cash.
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I just unwrapped Gutenberg. Their quest for no plastic looks like a real decent effort. Their solution for creating an axel for a cog (a wooden disc instead of plastic rivets) is kind of inspired.
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Not bought, but for my birthday my wife got me the Marvel Champions: Sinister Motives expansion and Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes!, and her brother went with me to our FLGS and let me pick out something, so I took a chance on Taverns of Tiefenthal.
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