In The Hall Of The Mountain King Deluxe

I love this game. I really like the puzzle that it creates and how you can get resources in different ways and always have options to work through. Really liked the theme and the Kickstarter components are amazing. It is a really good efficiency and sprawling puzzle, though not much interaction between players.

Wow! Everything about this game is a joy to experience. I really like the artists and molded resources. Cards, boards, and GameTrayz (with lids!) are solid production. The gameplay uses polyominoes in a clever route building mechanism that is a refreshing move away from just filling the given space. The resource production is an innovative draft where you want to balance getting the right cards quickly against using all your resources befoRe making more. The game is actually a race to place statues and complete your production pyramid so the tension stays high throughout. I’ve played over 1000 games and this is in my top 10!

In the Hall of the Mountain King is a stunningly visual and tactile strategy game. I don't typically like games driven by a collection of victory points at the end, but this game has enough distractions to keep myself and my opponents players distracted by the gameplay until the very end! What sometimes seems to be a runaway win at the end can very quickly turn into last place after several play-throughs. This game is great for 3-4 players?

I generally buy almost only thematic Euros. And this game is in my opinion one of the most thematic at all. The mechanics already mesh and complement each other very well. The artwork looks fantastic. And the different trolls, spells, workshops and variable scoring tiles, creates an enormous replay value.

Great fun playing two player, but with two trolls each. Basically the four player version, but Team play. It really rounds out the game play from the sparcity of playing with just two.