I haven’t played a lot recently due to being quite busy with the Advent of Code (I totally blame @RogerBW), but today I sleeved my Ark Nova cards (for some reason I had fitting sleeves sitting around) because sleeved cards shuffle easier and the Ark Nova deck is in dire need of help in that aspect.
And once the cards were sleeved I had to play a solo (also the neighbor was having a techno party upstairs the whole day which meant my concentration wasn’t up to coding).
This was my third solo I think and I am quite impressed how smooth this plays and how well this solo mode is executed.
The solo mode consists of
- 1 card sized board that uses cubes of a different color to track your actions, just like Wingspan you get one less action each round until there are only 2 cubes left and the game ends.
- Cards that have interactive elements have alternative actions on them (also an option for those who don’t like the take that elements in multiplayer
- The “pause” track is simply ignored you reset when the solo board tells you to.
- You win if your score is positive after 6 rounds.
That’s it. I like it a lot. Setup is fairly fast, I just keep all materials needed for 1 player in the bag including 5 X tokens, the 5 zoos and the 3 universities…
If not for the coding challenge, I might have played a few more of those solos already. As it is, it still stands a good chance to be the final entry needed for my 10x10 solo challenge.