Slow death - player elimination in board games (Topic Discussion)
Episode description
In many modern board games, all players participate until the very end. Everyone continues to take their turns until the game has finished and it's time to decide the winner or winners. That's true for co-operative as well as competitive games. Player elimination games are very different in that respect. In these games, some people around the table could be out of the game early on and end up sitting it out until it's all over. If done well, player elimination can be a very interesting mechanism in modern board games. In this article, I want to look at different ways this mechanism is implemented and discuss how well these work.
Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/09/13/slow-death-player-elimination-in-board-games-topic-discussion/
Useful Links
- Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/
- Love Letter review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2021/01/23/love-letter-saturday-review/
- King of New York review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/04/25/king-of-new-york-saturday-review/
- Nemesis review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2022/06/18/nemesis-saturday-review/
- Splotter: https://www.splottershop.com/
- Food Chain Magnate: https://www.splottershop.com/products/food-chain-magnate
- Jaws review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/10/10/jaws-saturday-review/
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