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Race/Roll for the Galaxy, Jump Drive, New Frontiers: Where to begin? (feddit.de)

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What is your opinion on these games?

Race for the Galaxy seems to be the original game, that deserves it‘s praise. But do you still think it‘s good by today‘s standards?

How does it compare to Roll for the Galaxy? Is the latter a more approachable version but lacks depth, like more beginner friendly dice versions of other games?

But that seems to be the case for Jump Drive, right? So far, this one looks like a family friendly approach, while still being awesome enough for more experienced players.

But then there‘s New Frontiers from Lehmann, another space themed game! This one looks a bit like an easy 3.5X game, right? Looking back, do you think all of them are worth buying? If you had to choose only one, which one would it be?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is super helpful, thanks! I’m also in the market for one of these 3.

My fiancé and I really enjoy Space Realms, and we’ve played a decent amount of Dominion. She isn’t into games with large setup/tear down, and we have a 1 year old which makes finding time challenging.

Which of the three do you think we should consider?

[–] BigilusDickilus 1 points 1 year ago

I would start with classic Race in your circumstance, setup is just fishing out the homeworlds and shuffling (a big deck so that is a bit of a task). Again, there is a learning curve at the beginning before the game clicks, but it is quick, its a small box (that could be smaller if you wanted to hack together something), and you can literally just shovel it back in there if you needed to move on quickly.