Dominion is the ground breaking card game that release in 2008. It is build on an innovative deck building mechanic which leads to a lot of others similar game come out after it. So how’s the game play? It is base on an abstract theme of building a dominion somewhere during the middle age of Europe. The basic gameplay is about building a deck and trying to incorporate as many Victory points as you can.
In turns, players complete 4 phases:
A. Action phase: play an Action card
B. Buy phase: buy a card
C. Clean-up phase: discard played and unplayed cards, and draw five new cards.
It’s really that simple, just A, B, C! You’ll quickly work through your deck, shuffling up the discards, and repeating. As the game progresses, your deck will start to take form, and you’ll try to put together card combinations that maximize your income and the purchase of victory points. Who has the highest victory points win at the end of the game.
Lets go with the pros: with 25 Kingdom cards & using randomly 10 in each game, it has good replayability, its plays quickly with just around 30 minutes per game, scale well from 2-4 players, easy to learn with not much learning curve, interesting decisions to make although in shortgame, all games play differently with different cards combo & tactics.
Cons that were noticeable include require lots of shuffling, can play on auto pilot mode, game impaired by luck (can be a pro for different gamer). The game did do a great job on every card, they are balance & each are useful in different tactics. For this base set there are only 25 kingdom cards, which aren’t really enough, but don’t worry, tons of expansion are release or ready to be release. So below rating are just for base game, with each additional superb expansions, rating will definitely keep increasing.
My Rating: 7.0
