u/Willing-Impress-871

As a newbie to solo board games, i watch a lot of playthroughs and reviews for games and dungeon crawlers stuck out to me as a fan of turn based strategy games like XCOM and Divinity Original Sin. I was expecting tactical combat, enticing story beats, and exciting progression.

What I ended up getting was all of those things in bite sized portions and a never ending gauntlet of dice rolling and fiddling with tokens. The decisions the game forces you to make is to either do the obvious best thing or to do the obvious suboptimal thing.

Every scenario had a different layout/mechanic that looked interesting when setting it up, but it wasn't enough to make up for the core gameplay loop of rolling dice to move a couple tokens, or if you get lucky, several tokens.

I might try out Jaws of the Lion at some point, but I get a lot more joy out of euro and deckbuilding games, which don't feel like massively downgraded experiences from their video game counterparts

The only euros I have are Agricola, Gaia Project, and Robinson Crusoe.

Is A Feast For Odin+Norwegians worth the price of Paladins/Wayfarers/Ezra And Nehemiah or should I go with the three smaller games, and have more variability/content?

I currently own:

Horizons of Spirit Island (10)

Outer Rim+Expansion(10)

Gaia Project (10)

Tales From Red Dragon Inn (8)

Robinson Crusoe (8)

Imperium Legends (still learning)

Astro Rove and Sprawlopolis (I love them but I only feel up to playing it on a whim)

Agricola (only played once bit hated it. Still open to playing multi-player or other Uwe Rosenberg games)

I will eventually buy Slay The Spire and Betrayal of The Second Era but I can't shell out for those yet

I'm mainly looking for highly replayable games that feel significantly different than anything else in my collection right now (so no dungeon crawlers or pick up and delivers etc.).