I thought it was a deceptively simple, but quintessential Eurogame that had lots of paths to win that balances short term AND long term planning in a very easy-to-grasp, visual way.

The table presence of games is often enough to draw me in, and this is definitely an example of a game with a rock-solid table presence.Everything is done very professionally with this company and always lets you know every step of the process. I didn’t feel that the player conflict was a problem as each turn offers you a variety of ways to score points.

A fair number of those are negative points (or, at least, the Pyramids are; it makes sense, since Egypt is really not where you would want to skimp on pyramids).On the B side, as soon as a player places 3 stones of their color on the board, they create a small obelisk that scores points.