You’ll be given a choice and a lot will depend on which villagers you brought on the expedition, and who you’re willing to sacrifice to succeed. Any villager may be utilized to harvest these goods, which are then either placed on the player board, or held aside for later placement. Build: you may use one of your builder workers per turn to build a new structure, which is chosen from a pool of displayed cards. Redemption of a code and download of the content waives your 14 day right to cancel under the Direct Selling Regulations. Next, the Harvest action lets you gather some of the resources you’ve accumulated and move them to your player board for increases to your income you gain each round and victory points later.

The Build action is where you will select from the available building and outpost cards, pay and then add them to your part of the village, the buildings have various powers and will let you set up an engine that helps you accumulate victory points or increase your ability to explore and grow. Greg has been a gaming enthusiast his entire life, growing up in our hobby mainly on the war game side. There’s a mysterious cave system beneath the homestead, and so you begin to rebuild your village, above and below. The storybook is packed with encounters of amazing adventure, randomly chosen each time you visit the cavern.These can include, among others, training new villagers, harvesting goods, constructing new buildings and exploring the underground labyrinth. A tiny con, if anything the game is often times too short, having only 7 rounds it can sometimes be over before you get a good card engine built and you’ll wish it went on for a few more rounds. The story telling element in Above and Below is, for the most part, great; the only issue I have with it is that the resolution of any given encounter has no flavor, you either gain rewards or you don’t, which to me is a little half-hearted.

In most engine building games, your time preference starts out low and shifts to extremely high by the end of the game (because unlike the real world there’s a known end point in a game that forces your hand). Les mécaniques sont vites assimilées et le jeu est fluide, ce qui le rend jouable avec un large public. These goods can then be used in your advancement track (gaining you additional coins at the end of each round, as well as additional VP at the end of the game), can be put up for sale for the other players to purchase, or remain in limbo until you decide how to use them. The central “reputation” board primarily depicts the reputation and round tracks, and various game components, including available villagers and buildings that will be placed around it. The player first draws a new cave card and rolls a die, consulting the chart on the card to determine the paragraph number that must be read from the “Encounter” book.Above and Beyond is certainly an improvement over Tales of the Arabian Nights in terms of being a more strategic game. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. After you successfully fight off a group of glogos the encounter book simply states the rewards you receive. It’s not strategic enough to appeal to hardcore euro gamers, but it still contains many interesting decisions.