Starling Games | Everdell: Mistwood Expansion | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 1-4 Players | 40-100 Minutes Playing Time

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Not just a dice bag - when you're All Rolled Up you're ready to game without needing to worry about finding all your gaming gear. Pit your wits against Nightweave and her sticky schemes in solo or two-player games, and recruit heroes of yore from the More Legends and Corrin Evertail expansion packs as well as transform your farms with our new Through Every Season expansion pack! Also, with the Rugwort solo mode you had to do as many special events as possible on the higher difficulties or the penalty of 6 points for each one not completed generally cost you the game if there were 3 or 4 still on the board.

You can also see most of the cards that Nightweave picks up and giving them low point cards from various card effects may seem terrible, but if you give 1- or 2-point cards this will help reduce the chance of Nightweave playing the high point cards that they may have acquired over the course of the game. Now I can play the game how it is meant to be played and this will be hitting the table a lot more solo now. Mistwood also includes additional player meeples: spiders, stoats, pigs, and butterflies, which are unfortunately reused from My Lil’ Everdell.Thus, I’m immensely excited to be able to review Mistwood; the latest expansion to Everdell which introduces a completely new solo mode where you will be competing against the cunning and villainous spider Nightweave! The solo mode, which I had berated for being too simplistic and rudimentary, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the simple rules overhead and ease of managing the solo opponent’s actions made it ideal for my brain which at the time was shot to pieces. The game ends in the same way as the base game but it is harder to tell who is winning in the solo game especially if Nightweave has lots of achievement cards to place out. Pit your wits against Nightweave's in solo or two-player games, and recruit heroes of yore like Corrin Evertail himself in this new expansion for Everdell.

Pit your wits against Nightweaves in solo or two-player games, and recruit heroes of yore like Corrin Evertail himself.The fact that there are 13 personality cards, each with its own unique flavor and characteristics, makes for a very varied solo opponent in terms of how they behave. Sure, she has some powers, but it’s nowhere near the exciting co-op experiences offered by the likes of Aeon’s End. The box cover makes it look like an epic adventure where you (and potentially a friend) face off against Nightweave, but all that really happens is Nightweave is another player playing the base game of Everdell. Lurking in the depths of Mistwood, the cunning and villainous Nightweave plots to take over Everdell with the aid of her spiderlings. Plans remain for the whole game whereas plots occur when Nightweave prepares for season and lasts for that season.

The legend cards do offer a bit of guidance at the start of the game with you looking for a certain critter and construction and sometimes you can use this to build an overall strategy if you can draw them fast enough.When playing with plots and ploys they will sometimes offer you the opportunity to foil them by paying resources and cards which most of the time you want to do. Pit your wits against Nightweave’s in solo or two-player games, and recruit heroes of yore like Corrin Evertail himself. The new player powers are similar in strength to the other various player powers included in the other expansions. Not only does this add an element of unpredictability but the Personalities module also ensures that the central card tableau never runs the risk of stagnating as more cards are cycled through compared to competing against the solo opponent in the base game of Everdell. because I’m thinking of picking up a copy soon (I know, extremely late to the party but better late than never).

In my review, I concluded that although the included solo mode was perfectly serviceable from a mechanical perspective I was still hesitant to recommend the game exclusively for solitaire play. Although not earth-shattering, the inclusion of these card-based modular expansions along with new Legendary cards goes a long way in adding a sprinkle of nuance to the base game of Everdell. Early stages of play might see her deploy one of her minions, known as spiderlings, to occupy a worker placement spot on the main board which prohibits you from gathering resources again much like when playing Everdell multiplayer. Nightweave might take the prepare-for-season action before you do or vice versa, she gains two cards from the central tableau during the transition to Summer much like yourself, the critter and construction cards that constitute her city actually apply when she tries to claim a special event card by having a set number of cards from a particular suit. The various modules added to the multiplayer game don’t increase the games weight unlike some of the other modules found in the various expansions.

Part of why you want bots in a game is because you don’t have enough human players to make it fully enjoyable. Similarly, there’s the Corrin Evertail module that chronicles the life and adventures of the legendary founder of Everdell through a series of interlocking critters and location cards!