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It's A Wonderful World
- rank: 134
- rating: 7.8
- published: 2019
Print Status
- in print
Why It's On The List
- A slightly more gamer-y 7 Wonders-ish card drafting game of civilization building... but that description sounds like damning with faint praise. The major difference is that you’re drafting a set of cards that you then use as resources (discarding them) or construction (building them) - the interplay can be fascinating and fast-moving... with the right players.
Tips &Tricks:
- Creating production is key to winning... but you can make a huge production engine that doesn't generate a lot of points if you're not careful.
- Learn when to give up on a card - preferably before you've invested too much in it.
- Easy to forget rule: when you discard a card in your construction area, the resource pictured on the card goes to your civilization card - it's not used on another card in the construction area.
- The main expansion offers some really interesting cards to mess with producing and scoring... and does so without doing any damage to the base game system.
- Warning: a single AP player can slow this game to a crawl.
Extras
- I wrote an extensive review of the expansions for It's A Wonderful World... including Corruption & Ascension, War or Peace, and Leisure & Decadence.
- I also reviewed the newest game in the Wonderful universe, a 1-2 player stand-alone named It's A Wonderful Kingdom. (Second warning: this review contains a lot of Princess Bride references.)
- The solo mode is very good - especially when you use the scenarios. It's the eighth of 18 solo-recommended games on the countdown.
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