From the other thread where we acquired new board games, we played a few of them that night.
Ursa Miner: Nice fun, easy to learn/play game, with cute theme and bear tokens. You’re essentially trying to mine the most honey at the same time trying to outwit/block your opponents from acquiring honey. You do that by removing the hexes and making your area of where you can go smaller, making your decisions a bit more difficult.
It’s fun. I would definitely play it again and bring it to cons to show people.
Nefarious: also another fun game. It’s a race to get points by deciding 1 of 4 actions to make inventions, acquire money, acquire inventions to eventually create, and spy on your opponents. Simple to learn/play and pretty fast.
The formula to win is “get your extra spies out first” to be able to acquire money faster than your opponents to get make inventions to win. However, it’s the 2 Twists that change up the game for playability. They are essentially 2 rules that limit your game play in a certain way. That’s where the game brings playability and variation. It’s not really a huge challenge, but it’s solvable, but overall fun with theme.
Barhen Park: bought a week ago. It’s Tetris to where you need to get boards filled up the fastest. If you can get the bigger “crane” pieces first as well as complete the statues, you will more or less have a better chance of victory. I was behind the entire game. Next time I will be more aggressive in getting the bigger more rare pieces.