Cities of Splendor: Expansions
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It took me most of the year to get around to trying out the modern strategy classic, not helped by its off-putting and entirely cosmetic theme, but it's become a favourite passive audiobook pastime to the point that I could be suckered into paying for more of it for the sake of variety (at imported counterfeit prices – if nothing else, it's necessary to avoid clashing).
It's a grab bag of generally incompatible frills and variations that overcomplicate a tight game with more cards, tokens, plastic and fabric. Probably not as good as playing without, but doing exactly the same thing all the time was getting a bit old.
- Cities: ***
- Trading Posts: ***
- The Orient: ****
- Strongholds: *
