Victory Point Games | SKU: VPG02022

Icarus

Name: Icarus
Brand: Victory Point Games
SKU: VPG02022
Price: 31.95 CAD
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Designer Reiner Knizia
Players 3–7Best: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Play time 30–45min
Age 13+
BGG rating ★ 5.7/ 10
BGG rank #23853

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Designer	Reiner Knizia
Publisher	Victory Point Games
Players	3-7
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	176898/icarus https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1628967/icarus/reviews

Designed by Reiner Knizia, Icarus is a game for three to seven players featuring a Liar’s Poker style bluffing mechanic. Push your luck by bidding the highest number against other players without being called out. How high can you fly?

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An Excellent Asymmetric Strategy Game Worth the Price of Struggling Through The Rulebook!

It is NOT an easy game to figure out, due to two factors: 1) the extremely challenging rulebook; and 2) the game is sooo asymmetric, that playing any one of the four factions for your first game won't help much experience-wise the next time you play with a different faction!

BUT: it's worth the struggle! It is extremely challenging; and rather than just trying to perfect your strategy, you need to be constantly taking actions to prevent your opponents from achieving their goals. In fact, you'll find yourself frequently cooperating with one or two of your opponents just to prevent a sudden-death victory on the part of Player #4. Yes, player-interaction is very high in this game.

Which leads to another drawback with Soul of the Empire (if it can be considered a draw-back): although the game can be played with 2 or 3, it's not at all worth it unless you have 4 players. Having said that, if I had three other equally experienced players of Soul of the Empire available, I'd want to play this every week, it's that much of a challenge.

For most of the game, it feels like no one is at all close to a victory. Then, all of a sudden, two or three factions seem like any one of them could win in the next fifteen minutes! And five minutes after this realization, one of them does.

I was not expecting to like Soul of the Empire as much as I did. In fact, I love it!

Quality game

Good quality

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