Empires End Review - Trying Not To Have Your Empire's Destroyed

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You lead a grand civilization at the height of its influence, but can you save it from collapse? In Empire's End, 2-4 players compete to keep calamity at bay. Empire's End marries the intuitive and elegant mechanism of reverse-bidding with engine-building, long-term planning, and strategic depth. The result is a game with a quick tempo, abundant tension, and multiple challenging paths to victory.
Players begin with a civilization at the height of its power. Play proceeds through a series of phases, varying as you progress through the game. During the Disaster phase, players face a common threat such as famine, a flood, or barbarians. The player who ends the bidding must take the disaster, which devastates one of their territories.
With each disaster that befalls an empire, its people grow in wisdom and resilience. In the style of the modern classic game No Thanks, resources bid by all players will end up in the hands of the player who ultimately takes the disaster card. That player also gains a new ability, an innovation that reflects their empire's ability to adapt in the face of challenging times.
Each turn, players move along a progress track that dictates whether they will face a disaster or another type of phase. Players can gain new resources during Production phases, rebuild lost territories during Industry phases, and challenge one another during Military phases. At the end of the progress track, the game is concluded and the winner is the civilization with the greatest number of victory points. Intact territories contribute points, but innovations and military successes can provide alternative ways to win.
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:05:04 - Ease of Play
0:05:34 - What I Like
0:07:28 - What I Don't Like
0:08:37 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:09:18 - Final Thoughts
0:10:18 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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[@ChadHensley]

Really appreciate the timing of this video. I have been going back and forth on rather to back this or not, which you could argue is a sign I shouldn't. I find myself agreeing with you more than I don't and trying to slim down my already overflowing collection means that a 3.5 is only getting through if I know that I know that I want it. Thanks!

[@HiddenKeep]

high society has a couple things that you have reverse bidding on.

[@rayman7898]

Hey, those are those nice dice trays that Steeped Games absolutely refuses to send to the backers that paid for them.

[@antonnieuwkoopable]

Thanks for the video! Exactly what I thought the game would be. Would be nice to play with the family as well with some friends Where did you get those nice resource trays?

[@donkeytorin8137]

I think those are resource trays from the Chai Tea for 2 campaign which may or may not ever deliver. Think they sent him some trays to cover with the game when it was on kickstarter.

[@maxf.7262]

Ty for the video!

[@FalkFlak]

mh, so Empire's End has not much going on but those who want even less plays No Thanks! which literally only consists of this one bidding mechanism.

[@RiHa_Games]

You look a bit rough (around the edges;)), you oke?🤗