There are four types of buildings and they will create actions available only to you. Workers in Exosuits can gather water, mine resources, discover scientific breakthroughs, recruit more workers, and construct buildings and super projects. Each path has asymmetric options and scoring. Others give you a bonus if you mine with an engineer, they don’t become exhausted. Some worker placement areas require a specific worker, you can’t make a scientific breakthrough without a scientist, for instance. Each has strengths and weaknesses, except geniuses which can take the place of any type of worker. Not only do you get temporary influx of resources, but you will score additional points by taking advantage of the ability to travel through time.īesides having Exosuits to deal with, there are also different types of workers: scientists, engineers, administrators, and geniuses. It allows you to get a resource that may not otherwise be available that round, but you also have to travel back in time later to pay it back or risk opening an anomaly in time (losing points). It can be nearly impossible to tell them apart from even a short distance away.Īt the start of each round, you can request resources from the future and they become immediately available to you. They are grey, purple, green, and yellow, but mostly transparent. There is one production concern I have, and that is the color of the resource cubes. They look great and make the game really stand out.
With the optional Exosuit Commander pack, these suits are wonderfully sculpted minis that have a slot to actually place the worker tile into. Workers slide into Exosuits to explore the Capital. Each player has 6 Exosuits at their disposal and chooses each round how many to power up, but powering more suits will require more resources. Most of the worker placement spots in Anachrony are on the main board and can only be activated by a worker in an Exosuit. While the story is somewhat convoluted, the mechanisms in Anachrony rely heavily on the idea that most of the area cannot be accessed without Exosuits, and resources can be sent through time. But is it any fun to play?Īnachrony is a worker placement game for 2-4 players that plays in about 120 minutes. There are some unique twists to resource gathering and how workers can be used that offers a bit of a new feel to the standard worker placement genre. But a game can’t survive on miniatures alone. But that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate awesome looking miniatures and Anachrony certainly has those. Take your workers, place them on a board to gather resources, and change those resources into victory points somehow. Worker placement is somewhat of a tried and true Euro game concept these days.
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