Product Details: The SKU is STM206. It is available in a number of languages from localization partners. Because I wasn’t intimately involved in the design process, my focus was more on the components and presentation of Ignorance Is Bliss. Most of the expansion is cardboard (cards, tiles, mats, and the board), so I wanted to add something a little more dramatic without significantly increasing the cost. Take the Ethical Dilemma cards: it's a basic decision such as “Burn a Book/Read a Book.” Burning a book means you play a star immediately moving you 10% closer to victory. Read A Book allows you to draw two recruit cards and keep one. The recruits will possibly gain you a star later in the game and allow you to use their special powers once they become active. But, for the life of me, I can't bring myself to do the oppressive action. I'll take that chance, I'll bet on the recruit paying off later simply because that action “feels” right. Never mind that I'm actively exploiting workers to rise within a dystopia with tie breakers that include having low intelligence workers, I won't burn that book. Yea, so, I've bought into the theme. And that’s one of the interesting things about the game. It seems that everyone has their own ideas about how to win and they just go for it. I’ve found one person that likes to hit the Icaritan artifact markets over and over while another loves to construct markets. As a player, you almost have to be flexible with your strategy as the game unfolds. If people are rushing to build the markets, you had better make sure you get in on that (players without authority stars on the markets once built are penalized).

IGNORE that previous comment. I just looked through my paper copy and realized they ARE the same. Thanks! Having a bit of lighter fun with people at the local club playing Forgotten Waters. The only disappointment is that because there's around 20 people playing different games in a pub's function room... You also have 2 elite recruit cards at your disposal. One has pledged allegiance to you, but the other needs some convincing. You can reveal and use the reticent recruit by reaching certain milestones in the game…or by letting other players unwittingly reach those milestones for you. Also during setup, we’ve implemented something called a “minority starting bonus,” which refers to the recruit each player reveals at the beginning of the game. After that reveal, players will identify the faction(s) with the most active recruits. That’s the “majority faction.” If the faction of your starting active recruit is not in the majority faction(s), you gain any 2 commodities as a starting bonus. Thus, if Icarite recruits are preferred, the minority faction commodity bonus given during setup should help the earthbound factions. While I don’t have trays to sell, I have a very small number for replacement parts and for situations where someone thought they were buying a copy of the game with the trays (but it was actually an older printing).

Oho! New to Stardew? Keep me posted on what you think. It can take time to earn things, but other avenues open up (mining, fishing, interacting with townsfolk) to keep you engaged as the in-game days... Euphoria is a dice placement game where the dice represent your workers and the dice faces the worker’s knowledge. Being a Dystopia, knowledge isn’t always a good thing. You want your workers to accept what you say, if they become clever (self-aware) they will revolt against you giving you less workers and a cost to retrieve that worker. Euphoria – In the box

If you play at two players or six, downtime is almost none existent. This makes the game enjoyable and it’s a good game, with more thematic choices it could have been so much better though. Unless you roll the same number on multiple dice, you get to place one per turn. Workers will gather or trade resources, construct markets among many actions.Leaders of Euphoria is a standalone social deduction game based on the Euphoria universe. Players get three identity cards each, and they’re tasked with figuring out who’s on their team, and who’s against them. However, one of the reasons we’ve moved away from custom art is that we want the control to feature a wide diversity of people in our games (especially when it makes sense for the theme, as it does in Euphoria). You’ll see that reflected in the final cards–there’s a great mix of men and women, different ethnicities, different ages, etc.

If you’re looking for a game that takes well-trodden mechanisms in novel and intriguing directions, then you’ve found it in Euphoria. I’ll admit I like my Euros with a stink load of V.P. from a variety of sources and a generous dollop of secret scoring on top. But now and then something will surprise you by subverting your expectations. Euphoria did that for me and it’s all the better for it. I’ve left the victory points (authority tokens) and winning conditions for the beginner section, to give you a better idea of what to do in your first game of Euphoria.

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

Allowing the Automa system to be used with 3 humans was an option we considered because it would move the game to the more popular 5-player, but again we faced a trade-off decision. At 5 players the Automas can into trouble with the constructed markets. It wasn’t anything we couldn’t have handled (and you can house rule it if you want), but it would have required us to add exceptions to the subsystem that’s by far the most complex in the Automa rules. A worker placement game for 2-6, Euphoria tasks players with rising above the mediocrity assigned to them as citizens of the futuristic dystopia of Euphoria . The veil has been lifted, and the bemused acceptance with which everyone lives their daily life is no longer adequate for the player characters. They decide to use their newfound knowledge to lift up/exploit their fellows in a bid to better their own station in Euphoria.

As we near the end of these design diaries, I wanted to talk about a subject that is indirectly related to the expansion: Game Trayz. Whenever you retrieve workers, you will have to reroll them. If the sum of dice values, plus the knowledge value is equal to or higher than 16, you will lose a worker dice. But that’s really my biggest complaint about Euphoria. The play time will probably run a little longer your first play through, but I’ve found the 60 minute play time to be optimistic, but still somewhat accurate depending on the player count. We did a 6 player game in 1hr, 15mins, and our 2 player games easily finish under 60 minutes. For many of the recruit cards, a period and new sentence indicates total separation from the previous statement and a separate persistent ability; but sometimes it doesn’t, and the sentence is informed by the context of the previous sentence…and so we’ve encountered some confusion for a few recruits. The look of the board came across quite daunting at first but once you have played a few games you soon learn what each space is for. You have spaces for generating commodities like electric, spaces to dig towards other players commodities and even a market place that will be built.I decided on jumbo commodity tokens. One small issue in Euphoria is sometimes players run out of commodity tokens, as they’re easy to collect and hoard. Now, with the expansion, you can use a jumbo commodity token to represent 5 of that commodity (or 3 or 4 or 10–the multiplier can be anything you want). We included 6 of each token. The commodities are food, water, electricity, and bliss (a kind of stimulant/drug). The areas that give you these are affected from the roll of the dice. The dice do not affect the remaining locations however and allow you to obtain resources like gold or stone. These resources allow you to build markets and as the game progresses more options become available to the players. In 2-3-4 player games, the miner meeples start 3-2-1 spaces down the tunnel. This means that it’s easier to activate recruits of the earthbound factions, which alleviates the issue that it was easier to activate additional Icarite recruits.