Afer Us

Juego muy entretenido para usarlo en familia, buena calidad de los componentes, excelente

Components:This is another Vincent Dutrait artwork game and he does an incredible job bringing games to life, so this gets high marks for me. The cards are nice quality and are clear and easy to understand. One of the things I enjoy most in games are wooden pieces and this has those as different resources (fruits, grains, flowers), and feel nice to handle.Rulebook:Easy to understand and clearGameplay:Played in three phases - assembling tribe (card arranging/resource gain); attracting new apes (acquire a new tribe member); rest (clean up). There are various levels of monkeys and you want to gain the better ones such as apes and orangutans as they give you better abilities, but each is different in their own way. At the start of your turn you draw four cards and you can rearrange them how you like, but you are trying to close off as many boxes as you can, which then gives you points, tokens, etc. The better the card, the more you get. Then there are things like putting "batteries" in electronics left behind by the humans that give you a variety of different abilities like gaining points, exchanging resources, etc. Ultimately, the first person to get to 80 points is the winner.Conclusion:This is an enjoyable game that is really easy to learn and fast to play. Every game takes less than an hour and once you have a turn you automatically get what is happening, so the complexity is very low. Great game for kids and families that plays fast while you race to 80 points. Recommend it!

This is a fun deck builder with some interesting puzzle solving elements thrown in. Each turn you draw 4 primates from your deck, and how you arrange them determines what resources you collect (you only get to use the boxes on them that are closed on all sides). You then get to recruit one of the 4 types of apes, and each favors a resource or ability (but not exclusively) so your engine doesn't end up hyper focused. There is a trashing mechanic that lets you trim your deck down as you play, too.The core rules don't take too long to learn but the strategy of how to arrange you cards and whether to activate a trade takes a while to master, which is a good way to get people interested and coming back for a second game.My only complaint is that there isn't much player interaction beyond watching your opponents actions to decide on when you should switch from engine-building to scoring. At the end of each round you have the opportunity to trade a couple resources to copy the bonus one of you neighbors got but it isn't much.The components are good, the cards aren't cheap and the wooden resources & score tokens are all painted well. I kind of wish the energy tokens were wooden too instead of cardboard, as they are treated like resources in most instances.

Upon reading the description of this boardgame, one can't help but feel that this theme is that of the popular science fiction series: Planet of the Apes. That intrigued me and greatly influenced my decision to give it a try.The rulebook is extremely clear and concise. One read through of it and I was able to teach it with ease to the other players.Honestly, I thought that there was going to be a great deal of analysis paralysis that would slow down the pace, but that really didn't happen. The components are all great quality and I liked that the icons used were exactly the same as most of them. The player aides were all well done and easy to use. The box insert is nicely done and allows for easy storage and sorting of components.The gameplay was simple yet deep. There is a great deal of thought and consideration that must be given when making choices and the strategy is not immediately apparent. I will say that once a player's points were established on the track, it seemed very difficult to break from the back of the pack and take a lead. In other words, the victory point accumulation was unforgiving. This took some of the excitement away since it appeared that there was no way to recover from some initial poor decisions. Perhaps after a few more plays, I could be proven wrong, but no matter what I tried to do, I just couldn't recover a lead.The gameplay is truly unique. It is really fun to arrange your cards to try and get an optimal resource collection and I love that everyone plays at the same time. This keeps interest high and the game moving.I also enjoyed the fact that each type of primate focused primarily on specific resources. We came to the conclusion that the successful player has to learn to balance the types of apes in his deck rather than concentrate on just one or two of them.The biggest disappointment of the game is that of the theme. I love the Planet of the Apes films and was drawn to this game in hopes of some great theming. Unfortunately, the theme seems "pasted - on". The game could be created using almost any idea. You don't get the feeling of a post-apocalyptic society and it is quite easy to forget about the game's backstory in minutes. This doesn't negate the unique game mechanisms but, I was really hoping for some clever tie-ins to the theming.Regardless, we all enjoyed playing and I am going to make it my mission to develop a winning strategy. It will be played again!

Pandasaurus games always have top notch components and this game is no different! This is a really, really fun take on a standard deck builder with more tension added. For fans of any deck builder, like Dominion, Ascension, Star Realms, you're getting the same sort of game play here with just a little more decision making happening. It's a really, really clever game and so far I've had a blast playing it!