u/No-Wear-9042

I discovered that game a few days ago and liked it, but a few things felt wrong.

After thinking, I realized it came from the gaming material:

1. The box is too big. This is not an expert game, this is a light game. For people wanting to play 45min-1h without any pretention. So the game goes in the "box should not be too big" category (like sky team).

This also explains why I had to build a 4m x 3m x 1m homemade box for Patchwork in my backyard, Patchwork being the most expert game to ever exist.

2. The player board feels too cardboardy. The color is not the same as the rest of the game. The player board is FLAT! A flat board, can you imagine?

This also explains the homemade woodcarved (to add volume) and knitted patchwork pieces in my living room that my wife's boyfriend keep mistaking for carpets.

3. Tokens, tokens, tokens. I like manipulating stuffs (like shrinkwrapped boxes), but this is too much. Tokens should be replaced with tracks. Considering tracks, also refer to my universal first player track on kickstarter. Every player set it to 0, except the first player who sets it to 1. Much more efficient and visually pleasing than a first player token, with the added benefit of eliminating the unneeded player interaction when giving the token to someone else. Also check my special "Patchwork edition" for each 2000$ pledge.

/uj: almost direct translation from a french post I read, I just added the parts in italics. The box part was just so fun to read.

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I honestly don't know how it happened, both MoM and the dog where shrinkwrapped, but now one is missing a paw and the other is covered in blood.

Anyone know a good dog spare parts furnisher?

And a board game dry cleaner able to remove blood? I'm afraid water could damage the shrink wrap.

As the title asks.

I can proudly say that, to my knowledge, there's not any game that I have never heard about.

EDIT: thank you for all your suggestions, but I just thought about it again and I realize that I have now read about every game you suggested.

I mean, what kind of casual player (I don't mean it as an insult, even if it is an insult of course) requires a theme for a boardgame?

Despite the obvious fact that you should not open it, any distraction from the mechanics is unwanted.

There's nothing more beautiful than unnamed meeples and undefined ressources. I can tolerate something being called money as long as it has no specific name.

Saying "I'll put that that meeple here and take 2 brown ressource cubes and one generic money token" is peak gaming.