The Fanatic Reviews: The Ninth World: A Skillbuilding Game for Numenera by Lone Shark Games
11Welcome back one and all, tonight we're taking a look at The Ninth World, a bidding game that takes place in the Numenera sci-fi fantasy setting. Whereas most bidding games go the obvious route and represent thing like markets and economies, The Ninth World goes a completely different direction and tackles high fantasy adventure! How does it fare with this? Let's find out together!
DISCLAIMER: The developer of this game has provided me a copy for the purposes of preview. I will always endeavor to give my honest thoughts of any game I review, regardless of review copies provided. All opinions contained herein are mine and mine alone.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Setup
02:13 - Round Structure: Bidding
03:26 - Round Structure: Scout Phase
04:18 - Round Structure: Tinker Phase
05:50 - Round Structure: Combat Phase
06:30 - Round Structure: Focus Phase
07:45 - Round Structure: End of Round
08:27 - Cooperative and Solo Mode
10:52 - Component Quality
11:52 - Conclusion
Links
The Ninth World on the official Lone Shark Games website: https://lonesharkgames.com/the-ninth-world/
The Ninth World on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/189154/
Find more of the Numenera setting on the Monte Cook Games website: https://www.montecookgames.com/
Music
Brave New Ocean by Wolfgang
https://opengameart.org/users/wolfgang
Exploring a Cave by Mega Pixel Music Lab
https://opengameart.org/users/mega-pixel-music-lab
Wipe Away Those Tears by Johnathan Shaw
https://www.jshaw.co.uk/rpg-orchestral-essentials
Airship Thunderchild by Otto Halmén
https://opengameart.org/users/otto-halm%C3%A9n
The Fall of Arcana by Matthew Pablo
https://matthewpablo.com/
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