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Thunderstone: Dragonspire
I’m a huge fan of Dominion. It’s one of my favorite games. Therefore I was very keen on trying some of the other deckbuilding games to come out. Thunderstone: Dragonspire seemed the perfect entry point for me to check out what Thunderstone did different.. And I just didn’t like it.
Sure, Thunderstone added a fantasy theme that some may find more appealing than the medieval setting of Dominion – to me, however, they are both equally generic in theme.
Where Thunderstone fails though isn’t the theme, it’s gameplay. The issues I have with gameplay can be summarized as follows:
– Possibility for bad mix-ups. The random setup of villages cards, and what Heroes and Monsters will be played surely adds some variety to the game. However, some of the match ups can really bog down gameplay. Such as monsters that kill of your heroes combined with monsters that can only be defeated by a specific number of heroes.
– Lack of variety in the village cards. While there are several different cards in Thunderstone: Dragonspire, there aren’t that many village cards to choose from. After a couple of plays you’ve pretty much gone through them all. Sure this can probably be fixed by adding expansions, but out of the box the replayability isn’t really there.
– Randomness. The weapon cards in particular, as well as some Hero abilities that require a specific combination of cards in your hand leads to heavy dependency on luck of the draw. It’s much less possibly to manage your deck and hand in Thunderstone: Dragonspire than is the case in Dominion.
– Game lenght. A game of Thunderstone takes about twice the lenght of Dominion, but it doesn’t add more meaningfull decision to add meaning to this added gameplay. It simply adds more repetition of actions, and forsakes the race for provinces aspect of Dominion which makes that game’s ending so exciting. Thunderstone doesn’t have that excitement, it simply lumbers to a halt.
I’m sorry, but I cannot recommend Thunderstone: Dragonspire. To me it is simply an inferior version of Dominion.