LOOP Review — When Happiness Is Victory Points?
170Work. Buy. Consume. Shelfside reviews LOOP (Life Of Ordinary People), a medium weight euro board game that has players reenacting 21st century life in a tabletop setting where the goal is to achieve maximum happiness (victory points). The gameplay loop revolves around players each playing as a unique career that earns varying amounts of money and happiness with their unique stats and actions. The rules of this board game are highly thematic, and on your turn you literally just do one of three actions: Work, Buy, or Consume. Though, there's also favor and event cards that are played throughout different turns and rounds.
For a small, short little game without much complexity or weight, LOOP does an excellent job at making the player abilities and mechanics feel like you're working through the monotonous grind of day to day life. The minimalist art in the rulebook, cards, and components all portray the theme of this educational game exceptionally well, almost to a fault as the strategies that play out every game in order to win may not seem very interesting gameplay wise.
Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Overview - (0:22)
How to Play - (0:50)
Pros - (1:36)
Cons - (12:01)
Tentative Score - (17:46)
Ashton's Personal Score - (21:13)
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