Game Title:
Tides of Time
Designer: Kristian
Curla
Manufacturer:
Portal Games
Year: 2015
Tides of Time is a
quick 2 player drafting game where you build up kingdoms and collect points
based on interactions between the cards you play. A game takes around 20
minutes but the game has sufficient depth to keep itself interesting with a
range of offensive and defensives moves available most plays.
The game works like a typical drafting game, each round you
take 5 cards each, then you pick one and pass the remaining four to your
opponent. You then reveal your choices and pick a second card from the four you
got given and pass the remaining 3 cards along, reveal, choose, pass until the
hands run out. As it's 2 player this adds quite a lot of strategic play
options, the revealed cards tell you your opponent's strategy so you can play
cards they want to counter them or you might have a card that adds a lot to
your kingdom so you could choose that. Each move you take you have the
knowledge that your opponent can choose from your leftovers, particularly when
there are 2 cards left and you are actively choosing the final card that they
get.