Review: Artifact
Posted by James (admin) on 7th February 2014
Artifact is a worker placement game with a difference as players place a common set of action markers which are limited in number and the cost of using them varies.
THE GAME
Players are archaeologists digging up artifacts, shipping them home and putting on exhibitions (after all, as Indy taught us, ‘they belong in a museum’). Players primarily score victory points (VPs) at game end by gaining museum exhibition tiles and having cash. The final round is triggered by one of 4 different events such as finishing the 8th round, when one deck of artifact cards runs out, etc.
Actions
During a round, players take turns performing either 1 or 2 actions. If a player passes, they can not perform any more normal actions that round (although they can perform a special action on their turn). All players start each round with 6 wooden action markers and there are 6 different types of these: ships, museums and 4 different colours of workers (one for each continent). The board has a track for each type of action marker and each space on these tracks shows a cost (going from from 5 down 1). Read the rest of this entry »
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