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Dominion is my favorite game. Created by Donald X. Vaccarino (fucking tight name) it is the first ever "deck-building" game that subsequently went on to inspire an entire genre. Vaccarino has influenced much of table-top card gaming from his work on D&D as well as being a designer for MTG. Dominion works so well as a game, in my opinion, because of its endless amount of possibilities. With 66 x 10^21 combinations of cards, no two games are the same leading to complex and creative brain puzzles to solve. You play against 1-3 other people which, in effect, creates a need for efficiency in building your deck. Otherwise, you are practically doing your own thing while parallel playing with other people which invokes a very wholesome and nontoxic gaming experience. "Attack" cards create interactions with other players but feel less like roadblocks and more like opportunities for unique gameplay. Getting cursed by an opponent's Witch allows for your Storerooms to be more easily and effectively used. Discarding cards from a pesky Militia becomes a sort of engine when you add enough Trails to your deck. Endlessly interesting and quaint, Dominion is a game that has stuck with me for a long time. My best buddy from high school has collected all of the physical expansion boxes and I am always eager to get home to play with the tactile cards. In the meantime, the online version is a simple browser game reminiscent of pi.fyi.
If you're searching for a fun, cool website hosting a genuine and authentic passion project of a game, Dominion is for you.
Let me know if you need someone to teach you or to play with! I would be happy to :)
Jan 29, 2025
My current addiction. It’s kind of like a slot machine but you can get better at winning.
There’s something about how distilled this game is. No narrative or world building, just the pure game mechanic and the tight rougelite gameplay loop. Kinda mathy because you need to do some multiplication in your head to figure out if your hand is gonna create a big enough score, but I’m very sucked in trying to make the ultimate broken combination of cards/jokers.
Scores potentially can get so big they need to be represented with scientific notation. I haven’t played too many other card builder games, though I did love Inscryption.
Apr 24, 2024
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Bunny Kingdom, My City, and 7 Wonders are three I would recommend outside of the classics like chess, Catan, or go. Bunny Kingdom is a fun strategy game that’s competitive but not vicious, played with passing decks and a traditional board and pieces; My City is a legacy game where each player has their own board, and the gameplay stacks in more complicated ways as you move through chapters; 7 Wonders is played on individual boards that play differently, and players compete for resources over multiple rounds to complete their individual boards and win points— they’re all pretty dynamic and fast moving games, and learning the rules isn’t over complicated but gameplay isn’t overly simple, which is very fun
Mar 25, 2024
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I like it.
Sep 20, 2024
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This is the only bird to "stridulate" which is what crickets do to make noise. This thing brushes it's wings together at twice the speed of hummingbird wings. Absolutely fantasy shit.
Sep 19, 2024