Cleopatra boardgame review

[Anatoli]

Cleopatra is a Days of Wonder title, and if you are familiar with Days of Wonder they are producing games that are very family oriented, they often have solid core mechanics and offer a good deal of competitive gaming.

Cleopatra is no different, in this 2-5 player game players take on the role of Egyptian architects working on a temple. Each player uses a constant stream of resource cards that are picked up and collected to build various parts of the temple. Once you finish working on a part you get paid, and every time a larger part of the temple is finished Cleopatra moves one step on the turn track. Once 5 parts of the temple are fully finished she enters the temple and the game ends.

The player with most gold at the end of the game is the winner. There is however one twist. Many resource cards and characters that you can use in the game vastly speed up your work - but also taint you with "corruption". This means that you can easily race ahead of all other players but if at the end of the game you are the most corrupted architect you are simply sacrificed to the gods and automatically lose/end up last.

Check my blog for the full review and more pictures:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/09/cleopatra-boardgame-review.html

[Prof.Witchheimer]

that sounds quite the right game for my family and me, I will definitely give it a try, thanks for the review, Anatoli.

[Anatoli]

Like all Days of Wonder games it is indeed great to play with the family, though I found this one to have a few more layers and options compared to the much more straight forward "Ticket to Ride" game 

[thebinmann]

that sounds quite the right game for my family and me, I will definitely give it a try, thanks for the review, Anatoli.

Me too, but I'll have to wait a few years... I have a big pile of games waiting to be played!