# Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2)

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**Created:** [24 April 2019 16:06 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/recent-boardgames-your-last-played-game-volume-2/399 "2019-04-24T16:06:26Z")\
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[following on from [What Should I Play? (Help me decide)](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-should-i-play-help-me-decide/4086)]

Last night, I did manage to find some energy to play. **Under Falling Skies** was the clear winner of the poll, so that’s what I got to the table.

I think, I’m finding, that “crisis management” games are not my thing. I lost. I was 2 research jumps (which is I think like 13 research points on the basic scenario?) from winning. My city had only taken 1 damage when the mothership landed. I know, intellectually, that I could have easily won by letting more ships through and spending just a few more dice on research. This is basically the same conclusion I have with Pandemic: yep, I could have won if I had just let a couple of more outbreaks happen to afford me the action-economy to cure the last disease.

So, I think I’ll give UFS another shot tonight, but ultimately, I think it might end up on the trade pile. Not because it’s a bad game, but rather it’s a game that doesn’t stimulate my brain in the ways I’m looking for. Or, perhaps, rather it pokes my brain in uncomfortable ways, and I just don’t need that – I’ve always got a copy of Pandemic I can fall back on.

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I actually set up for a retry of the base game, Roswell, last night. But after the first die roll, I just couldn’t be bothered to lean my brain into it.

At the time, there was a 3-way tie in the poll for 2nd place. Clinic, Empyreal: S&S, and Fantastic Factories. Knowing that my brain wasn’t up to a huge task, I did get Fantastic Factories down off the shelf and familiarize myself with the rules. My impression of it is that it’s a pretty big sandbox; the action menu at any given time is slightly larger than I think I prefer – but I also expect that once you learn the lay of the land of said sandbox, the _reasonable_ action menu is quite narrow.

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