You're sitting at the table, playing with your best friend, your row of cards is perfectly aligned (courtesy of BGA), one animal away from victory and then your best friend sends you a smile emoji... They play the Crab. Your carefully built row shuffles sideways, your Alliance crumbles, and just like that, you're starting over.
That's Collect! in a nutshell.
The setup couldn't be simpler: draw a card, place it in your row, use your animal's ability. You're racing to line up 4 identical animals, it is called an Alliance, and claim the Crown before anyone else does. Sounds easy but it’s not. And that's the whole point.
See, every animal in this deck has an agenda. The Crocodile quietly buries your best card. The Monkey swaps your prized piece for their junk. The Parrot gambles everything on a coin flip. And the Chameleon? That sneaky little wildcard is whatever it wants to be. Every turn feels like a tiny heist where you're never quite sure who's robbing whom.
Collect! balances the two things that make games memorable: the joy of a solid plan, and the chaos of watching it fall apart. You'll think three turns ahead. Someone will ruin it in one. You'll laugh, groan, and immediately deal again.
It has that rare quality where even losing feels fun, because you were this close, and next round, you're sure of it.
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=collect
We’d like to thank Jérémy Ducret and Johannes Goupy, the game designers, as well as the folks at CMON for letting us add their game to the platform. We’d also like to thank Moof, for the BGA port.
This was your Monday release.
In the immortal words of every ruined strategy ever: “That escalated quickly.” Take care and play fair…
Zbirajte! Vrst se mora nadaljevati
Sediš za mizo in igraš s svojim najboljšim prijateljem, tvoja vrsta kart je popolnoma poravnana (zahvaljujoč BGA), ena žival te loči od zmage, nato pa ti najboljši prijatelj pošlje nasmeh ... Igrajo Raka. Tvoja skrbno zgrajena vrsta se premeša, tvoja Aliansa se sesuje in kar tako začenjaš znova.
To je na kratko Zbiranje!.
Priprava ne bi mogla biti preprostejša: vzemite karto, jo postavite v svojo vrsto in uporabite sposobnost svoje živali. Tekmujete, da postavite v vrsto 4 enake živali, to se imenuje Zavezništvo, in si prisvojite Krono, preden to storijo vsi ostali. Sliši se preprosto, vendar ni. In to je bistvo.
Glej, vsaka žival v tem kompletu ima svoj načrt. Krokodil tiho zakoplje tvojo najboljšo karto. Opica zamenja tvoj dragoceni žeton za svoje smeti. Papiga stavi vse na kocko z metom kovanca. In kameleon? Ta prebrisani mali džoker je, kar hoče biti. Vsak potez se zdi kot majhen rop, kjer nikoli nisi povsem prepričan, kdo koga oropa.
Zbiranje! uravnoteži dve stvari, zaradi katerih so igre nepozabne: veselje do trdnega načrta in kaos ob opazovanju, kako se razpada. Razmišljali boste tri poteze vnaprej. Nekdo bo vse uničil v eni. Smejali se boste, stokali in takoj spet delili karte.
Ima tisto redko lastnost, kjer se celo poraz zdi zabaven, ker si bil * tako blizu * in v naslednjem krogu si prepričan.
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=collect
Radi bi se zahvalili oblikovalcema iger Jérémyju Ducretu in Johannesu Goupyju, pa tudi ljudem pri CMON, da so nam dovolili dodati njuno igro na platformo. Zahvaljujemo se tudi Moofu za prenos na BGA.
To je bila vaša ponedeljkova izdaja.
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