T.I.M.E. Stories: Estrella Drive Expansion

Great expansion. Very interesting and uses the game's mechanics well. One of the better expansions.

Great expansion. Very interesting and uses the game's mechanics well. One of the better expansions.

I entirely agree with Dre, and he is 100 percent correct. The story is awful. You have to go back in time and help some nebulous time paradox, while watching all these people die. Don't help them or you will be upsetting the timeline! You don't even have a choice. The best win condition is done without violence, and you HAVE TO commit violence to complete the story. Art, which is usually a strong point (remember Asylum, wow!) is a weakpoint for this TIME story. What is up with their mouths. More editing was need. I love all the time stories, and especially the brotherhood of the coast. This was was awful. A must skip for Time Stories Fan. BTW, my whole gamer group hated this one...

I entirely agree with Dre, and he is 100 percent correct. The story is awful. You have to go back in time and help some nebulous time paradox, while watching all these people die. Don't help them or you will be upsetting the timeline! You don't even have a choice. The best win condition is done without violence, and you HAVE TO commit violence to complete the story. Art, which is usually a strong point (remember Asylum, wow!) is a weakpoint for this TIME story. What is up with their mouths. More editing was need. I love all the time stories, and especially the brotherhood of the coast. This was was awful. A must skip for Time Stories Fan. BTW, my whole gamer group hated this one...

I play TIME Stories for the immersion. As an RPG TIME Stories does this very well through a combination of storytelling and new mechanics. Finding a balance of these two means that there's a TIME Story for anyone: if you like mechanics you might like Under The Mask or Prophecy of Dragons, if you like storytelling Expedition Endurance or The Marcy Case might be for you. This expansion, Estrella Drive, sits firmly within the realm of storytelling, and the team behind it seeks to drop players into a story inspired by real events, one that starts in one place, ends up somewhere entirely different and pulls its players along for the ride the entire way. There are cards that are grotesque and horrifying, there are backs of cards I couldn't look at because they so unsettled me just with the promise of "what could happen next". But this is one for the ages. It's one that treats history as a dangerous and upsetting place, where real things really happened and these players are really experiencing what really happened. And it's yet another installment that affirms TIME Stories as one of the most interesting and ambitious series on the market right now, never content to lean back and just print something new. No, it's clear that they are trying to make every single new expansion makes its players sit up, take notice, and need to play the next one right now.

I play TIME Stories for the immersion. As an RPG TIME Stories does this very well through a combination of storytelling and new mechanics. Finding a balance of these two means that there's a TIME Story for anyone: if you like mechanics you might like Under The Mask or Prophecy of Dragons, if you like storytelling Expedition Endurance or The Marcy Case might be for you. This expansion, Estrella Drive, sits firmly within the realm of storytelling, and the team behind it seeks to drop players into a story inspired by real events, one that starts in one place, ends up somewhere entirely different and pulls its players along for the ride the entire way. There are cards that are grotesque and horrifying, there are backs of cards I couldn't look at because they so unsettled me just with the promise of what could happen next. But this is one for the ages. It's one that treats history as a dangerous and upsetting place, where real things really happened and these players are really experiencing what really happened. And it's yet another installment that affirms TIME Stories as one of the most interesting and ambitious series on the market right now, never content to lean back and just print something new. No, it's clear that they are trying to make every single new expansion makes its players sit up, take notice, and need to play the next one right now.

Time stories is one of my favorite games of all time. I have played every expansion that has been made and always enjoyed the experience . . . until now. I despised this expansion. I should have suspected something was wrong with this expansion when they stated it was for mature audiences only. SPOILER ALERT: The story is a rip off of the murders committed by Charles Manson and his followers. Having read Helter Skelter and being very knowledgeable about the real events in history, playing a game based on the events felt morbid and gross. The theme destroyed any fun I might have been able to enjoy. The drug references and swearing also contributed to my distaste for this expansion. My wife wants me to burn it so no one else has to suffer through this game. Though I am a time stories fan, I highly recommend passing on this expansion.

Time stories is one of my favorite games of all time. I have played every expansion that has been made and always enjoyed the experience . . . until now. I despised this expansion. I should have suspected something was wrong with this expansion when they stated it was for mature audiences only. SPOILER ALERT: The story is a rip off of the murders committed by Charles Manson and his followers. Having read Helter Skelter and being very knowledgeable about the real events in history, playing a game based on the events felt morbid and gross. The theme destroyed any fun I might have been able to enjoy. The drug references and swearing also contributed to my distaste for this expansion. My wife wants me to burn it so no one else has to suffer through this game. Though I am a time stories fan, I highly recommend passing on this expansion.