What’s your favorite Garphill Game? 🦜
Legacy of Yu by
@garphillgames is a solo campaign game where you protect your village from a flood and barbarians!
In the game, you will use cards to gain resources, which will be spent to build the canals and defeat the barbarians. If you can build all the canals in time while surviving the barbarians, you win! But if the flood overtakes the canals, your deck/discard runs out, or the barbarians fill up the top, you lose
While the main mechanism is pretty simple, you’ll have to prioritize and decide on when and how you’ll upgrade your village, attack the barbarians, and accomplish other goals. As your upgrades usually give you additional resources at the start of each round, you’ll have to decide which one and when to upgrade. All the other goals also give you rewards so you’ll have to pick and choose which to go for first if you have limited resources
What’s cool about how the campaign works is that throughout the game, you’ll be told to open the Story book and find a particular entry. This entry will give you new cards to add to your game and it really fulfils the fun aspect of discovering new things. As you win and lose each game, new mechanisms/cards will be introduced to make the game more/less challenging, which is a great self-balancing system. However, it felt like the boons could get a little overpowered as I easily won the rest of the games after I got 1 particular boon
One of the main stars of the game that should not be forgotten is the insert itself. Set up/tear down is usually one of my biggest barriers to playing a solo board game but the insert makes it so easy that I didn’t really mind it at all. As the game also does not take up too much space, I could leave it set up overnight for another game the next morning
Legacy of Yu is an amazing solo game that kept me going back for more. While it is replayable, you may want to wait for awhile before starting another campaign as a lot of the fun was in the discovery of new cards. A definite recommendation for any solo gamer!
A review copy of the game was provided by the publisher
@lohwanping