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I played Earth for the second time Sunday night (after my usual RPG night was cancelled/postponed), this time with 4 rather than my first game with 2.
It's a really interesting game, but I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet. I originally took a look because it kept coming up in discussions around Ark Nova (which I tried and disliked), Wingspan, Terraforming Mars, etc.
I can see why people say Ark Nova is a bad comparison (I agree, very little overlap) but absolutely see why people compare it to Wingspan so often. So many of the mechanics in Earth seem to be directly pulled from Wingspan and then vaguely re-themed to be plant based. It really feels like they started with Wingspan as a base design, and then reworked it into their own concept.
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Overall, very interesting game. I had fun, and I'm looking forwarding to digging into it more on future plays.
I agree with all your pros. Turning Wingspan into a truly parallel game was a brilliant decision. The bird feeder and shared display were never a strong component of WS and greatly slowed everything down. While it's definitely possible to strand yourself for a turn or two in Earth if you expend all resources of a certain type and then have no one pick the corresponding action, that IS on you and you can recover from it. I also like that almost all scoring cards are impactful and you're always spoiled for choice.
For me the nice pictures were a major pull. I probably would not have backed it without them...