- Inheritors Strategy Card Game by Northstar Game Studio | Outsmart, Spy & Steal to Claim the Throne | Easy to Learn, Hard to Put Down | 2-4 Players | 30 Min | Age 10+

Small but packs alota punch. Fun and easy to teach but enough strategy. Happy with the quality recieved for the price. Great design! Highly recommended

NSG's other games have been good, and Inheritors is a worthy addition, in my opinion. It's been compared to Lost Cities, and that's certainly apt, in how you're deciding what cards to keep out of an awareness of how they might benefit others and so forth. It's not as streamlined, certainly, which if you're like me and want a little more complexity, additional paths to victory, etc. is a good thing. Mostly, you're trying to use discard actions to draw from a deck or to draft from a shared market, with the goal of building up a tableau. As you get the hang of it, you start intentionally manipulating the market, making longer term plans, trying to fool other people by doing something to convey something other than what you're really intending, etc. I'm impressed with everything it makes possible in such a small box -- speaking of which, it does have a lot of cards, and spreads out a bit in action. It's all really packed in there, so you're not going to sleeve these puppies and still fit them in the box, if you had such a thing in mind. It might have been nice for some of the different card types to have different backs, to make sorting them easier and make it less likely to accidentally combine any of them in where they shouldn't be shuffled. Not much of a problem though with a small amount of organization. Overall, I own and have played a huge number of board games, and am pleased to include this in their number, for how gorgeous, portable, and enjoyable it is.

It took a while to find someone willing to play with me. The game is a lot to take in - lots of card types, and often with the same back art so we accidentally shuffled in cards that need to stay separate. The rule book is tiny and dense. We had to read some parts a couple times and flipping around was bad with the book size but we did not have rule disputes not solved by the book. We did interpret several rules incorrectly the first 2 rounds though until we understood enough that we could read the rule and understand it in context. One thing was when we asked ourselves what the market was, it was buried in a few sections amd not its own. Oddly, if you can get over the set up and basics, the gameplay is rather simple. A lit going on, but simple. Not sure how I could convince my "games should be easy and not need to think to understand" people to sit and try long enough to figure out that it is simple though. I like how compact the box is, but the card backs being the same for different types and no dividers is annoying. I put the cards for the clans (not shuffled) in a baggie but it was not easy to fit. The game needs a lot of table space too, even for 2 people, so unlikely to play it at a restaurant or somewhere where compact is an advantage unless you fly to hang out with your game group. I did enjoy the game. It has elements of solitaire with the main objective to stack cars in color and number order. If you have a guide for set up and then they start with the objective it would probably go a lot better.

I played this a few times with my work game group, and we tend to skew towards medium to heavy strategy games, but often break it up with "lighter" stuff. Inheritors still has a little bit of a learning curve and several minutes of rules before starting, but within a few rounds the rules are very memorable and it's easy to just focus on your decisions, which I appreciate. At a basic level you're just trying to get cards for each of your sets and play them in order, but the special Advocate cards add a very cool layer of interaction and timing that are really what define this game. You probably won't play optimally you first time as you feel out some of the strategy, but our second play was much more interesting (and much quicker at about 20-30 minutes). I also like that the clan leaders and honors change from game to game, making each play feel a bit different. I was mostly worried about the 'Spy' action as I generally don't enjoy attacking/stealing games, but it actually works well here as a deterrent to just grabbing all the cards you need from the market. Since everyone can see which market cards you take, the Spy adds a nice strategic twist rather than just being mean. Overall, this was not on my radar but I'm glad I picked it up - it's a fun mid-weight card game that plays quick, allows for some interesting decisions every turn, and offers some really enjoyable player interaction. Looking forward to more plays and introducing others to this.

Un incroyable le jeux. Très compact pour la complexité et grandeur du jeux