Restart: An Ambitious Design with Mixed Results -- Here's Our Early Impressions | Board Game Preview
174Playing a game where the players change the course of history and land themselves in a new dystopian future of their own creation?? The game description alone had us excited to try this game, coupled with the fact that this design team put out one of Amy's big box favourite games of 2024. We didn't know what to expect going in but ultimately there were things we liked about Restart so far, and things that perhaps were less of a fit with our preferred style of gameplay. It's certainly interesting, so we hope this helps you assess if it's for you or not.
Note: The game featured is a prototype provided by the publisher with rules & components subject to change. As with all content on our channel, this preview was unpaid.
Campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teetotum/restart
More information about the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/377045/restart
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Theme overview
01:38 Mechanics overview
06:08 ✅ Impressive modular player board
08:03 ✅ The core evolving tableau puzzle
10:59 ❌ Unexpectedly abstract
12:30 ✅ Moving into a new dystopia
13:16 ❌ Modules didn't resonate with us as is
15:00 ❌ Rules overhead vs. payoff
16:20 ❔ Interaction & turn length
19:56 Wrap up
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