Monumental African Empires Expansion - Civilization & Deckbuilding Board Game, Ages 10+, 1-5 Players, 90-120 Min

This game has a very specific niche. The target audience are board gamers who grew up playing Sid Meier's Civilization, specifically late 90s early 2000s between Civ 2 and Civ 4. At its heart, it's a relatively light deck builder. The designer has made many little tweaks to the gameplay to give you that nostalgia of playing Civ, from the faction leaders and policies, technology and wonder names, the way the cards are laid out in a 3x3 grid, to the eras and scoring conditions at the end of game. It is meticulously designed remind me what it was like playing Civ series until 5am in the morning just getting that one extra tech, one extra policy.Many people complained about the late game downtime of the game. Even that is completely accurate! The atrocious downtime is completely representative of how late game in Civilization just breaks down and non functional.I would not recommend this game for everyone. There is too much rule overhead, weird pacing, and thematic dissonance for the general audience. I suspect, for many people, they will be either be disappointed in how light it is once they learn it, or find it too much of a hassle for such a light game.If you have any Civ buddies that just happens to be into board games, this will be great fun and hit you with nostalgia even more than proper Civ board games. Complex Civ board games just make me want to replay the video game instead. This one is a thematic game disguised as a deckbuilding Civ game.

We were surprised with the quality of the components. No flimsy pieces in this game. Box also has a tray for storing pieces, which is nice. Punch boards were easy to punch out. Would purchase again from this company.

This is a fine expansion to a fun game. As of now there’s only one other “review” posted, and it’s from a disgruntled Kickstarter backer who has a problem with the *publisher,* not the expansion itself. I ordered this item on Amazon, along with the base game and other expansion, and received them all promptly. Ignore the hater whose complaint doesn’t belong here, and enjoy the game.

Half the price of the game store.

Great price on a fun game. But I originally thought this came with minifigures, but it is the cheaper version that does not.

The production quality of the game does not live up to the price they're charging. I've played many other games of similar quality for half the price. No miniatures or anything, so a $70+ price tag seems outrageous for just cardboard and not that many cards. Wait for this to drop well below $40.Gameplay is ok, however a bit dry and convoluted. The new expansion seems to make things even worse, but I haven't played that yet. Already seeing it drop to almost 50% of it's original price, makes me wary of even trying it out - but I didn't like the base game enough to warrant the expansion purchase anyway.

My family was looking forward to learning this game. Unfortunately, right out of the box the game was missing several pieces needed to play it. Two civilizations were missing culture cards, and there were several other "setup" game cards missing. I'd pass on this one.

everyone love this in the family, kids and us play together.