Great review! The setup is indeed a bit laborsome. It's not just laying out the tiles and the aliens, it's mostly because setup of the tokens is, like, really annoying. Maybe it's only in the first few scenarios, but having to select or remove specific tokens means you have to form the token pool before you can randomize them. It's not the biggest deal, but to me this makes it a game I want to set up before everybody arrives. If you just pull it out, I feel you almost lose more time setting up than actually playing the game. Which is a real shame, because I really enjoy that the game is so short. You get a dungeon crawl feel without having to invest 3-4 hours into it.
Still have this unopened in wrapper, waiting for the day to play it...
Did you play it already?
(And if so, how was it?)
Great review!
The setup is indeed a bit laborsome. It's not just laying out the tiles and the aliens, it's mostly because setup of the tokens is, like, really annoying. Maybe it's only in the first few scenarios, but having to select or remove specific tokens means you have to form the token pool before you can randomize them. It's not the biggest deal, but to me this makes it a game I want to set up before everybody arrives. If you just pull it out, I feel you almost lose more time setting up than actually playing the game. Which is a real shame, because I really enjoy that the game is so short. You get a dungeon crawl feel without having to invest 3-4 hours into it.