Love It: 2x Gloomhaven, Ginkgopoilis
Like It: 2x John Company (new to me), 2x Fields of Green (new to me), Mafiozoo (new to me)
Mafiozoo is a redeveloped Louis XIV; the redevelopment was a lateral move.* The game is improved, but the rules got a cluttered three-column layout. The art is fun, but the super clean Alea style got replaced by itsy bitsy icons that get lost on the board.
Fields of Green is… a redeveloped Among the Stars. Mostly positive changes for me. By changing the theme it became a logistics puzzle where you need to keep your water => food => money pipeline healthy every round.
John Company is not a redevelopment of an existing game. We need to get 4-5 people for the next game, because both 3p games have been great but there’s no room for temporary alliances outside of 2v1 stonewalling. I thought about this one so much last week I needed to ramble about it over in the other thread.
* I never actually played Louis XIV, only read the rules, so take this with a grain of salt.