“Use Exosuits & time travel to ensure your vision for the future after the cataclysm.”
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/185343/anachrony
Playing Time: 30-120 Minutes
Weight: Heavy
Genre: Worker Placement
Designer: Dávid Turczi, Richard Amann,Viktor Peter
Players: 1-4
The world has already suffered ONE apocalypse, and your scientists have warned you that the worst is yet to come. You’re going to need to bend heaven and earth to get off this rock before the sun explodes, which will take not just scavenging across the ravaged hellscape that is our planet, it will also take… time travel.
At it’s core, Anachrony is mostly a worker placement game. However, the time travel is the clear differentiating feature of the game. You have the ability to go forward in time and borrow resources from yourself. The catch is, of course, much like in Avengers: Endgame you also got to go and put those things back, or the resulting paradoxes will wreak havoc upon your efforts and may doom you entirely.
Anachrony is a massive beast of a game, but it’s not nearly as complex as its intimidating board would suggests. It does have a lengthy playtime, so you’re not going to play it too often. So if you go shopping for this game, know that while you definitely DO want the cool Mech Suit upgrade, you probably DON’T need any of the expansions.
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