Century: Spice Road

A fun fast paced game that my whole family can play and enjoy.

This is a great game. It's super simple to understand and doesn't take long to set up or play. The best thing is that player turns are fast. So you may play a card, and not long after it's your turn again, so either play a card or draw a card. It's that easy. The component quality is good and i love moving cubes around to feel like my gains and loses are meaningful. Metal coins are always great. And if you get the other Century games, you can combine them to create bigger games. It's wonderful really. You'd be missing out by not getting this game.

I've played this game 4 player and 2 player. It holds up well for both. I think it does play better with more players though. Solid mechanics. Overall a fun game!

This is a lovely filler game or gateway game if you are looking for something inviting for new players or if you are new to gaming. You collect action cards that help you trade spices to complete goals for victory points. That's it. The action card collection is a good intro to engine building. There is some luck to how the cards come out, but a game only takes about 30 minutes so you don't spend a lot of time frustrated if the cards don't work in your favor.

We play this with adults and with our kids that are 10 and 12. It's a great game that isn't too hard to learn but can be a challenge to win. This game is one that is nice to play over and over.

Great game, and it arrived in excellent condition. It takes a little bit of time to learn the strategy, but once you see the combinations of spices and cards to buy, it moves fast and rewards the skillful player. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys board games.

My whole family really enjoys this game. The mechanics are a great combination of resource management and hand management. Your strategy has to be adaptable based on what you are able to do during the drafting of your cards. Never the same game twice.

This is a nice game about building up an engine of cards in your hand to cycle through to earn point cards. There is some interaction with timing of completing goals and stealing cards (if you realise what your opponents are planning). However, this is really a one-trick pony type game. There are no end game bonuses or goals. There is simply get enough VP cards than count up the VP. I would advise pass this on for Eastern Wonders, which has a bit more going on (in a good way) with the route-planning and power-collecting adding some much needed variability. It is also disappointing that the next game in the series isn't available as just an upgrade pack, meaning you need to buy all the cubes, bowls, etc. again for more cost. Be prepared to pay out a big-box game price if you want to combine two games together.

This is a nice game about building up an engine of cards in your hand to cycle through to earn point cards. There is some interaction with timing of completing goals and stealing cards (if you realise what your opponents are planning). However, this is really a one-trick pony type game. There are no end game bonuses or goals. There is simply get enough VP cards than count up the VP. I would advise pass this on for Eastern Wonders, which has a bit more going on (in a good way) with the route-planning and power-collecting adding some much needed variability. It is also disappointing that the next game in the series isn't available as just an upgrade pack, meaning you need to buy all the cubes, bowls, etc. again for more cost. Be prepared to pay out a big-box game price if you want to combine two games together.

This game "spices" things up. Plays smooth and is just fun. Most other online reviewers say that if you like splendor then you will like this game. Some call it the "splendor killer." I do like it more than Splendor, but I think that they are definitely different games. But I think that the over all concept of trying to collect cards to be able to produce a lot is the same as Splendor. There is a resource engine building aspect to the game. One friend said splendor is like buying discount or coupon cards where as century spice road is like taking advantage of foreign exchange rates..... and I think that's a pretty accurate analogy. One online reviewer said that this game should be up for nomination of some type of award and I also agree with that. But I jut started playing this game and it's kind of hard to figure out the actual value of the cards that you pick up to trade. There's 4 different spices that you can get that's tiered.... yellow cubes are cheapest, then red cubes are one level up, green cubes are the next level, and brown cubes are most expensive. Each player can carry up to 10 spices/cubes at any one time also kind of like Splendor. The person that buys 5 or 6 victory cards triggers the end of the game.... depending on who triggered the end of the game each person that hasn't had the same amount of turns as the player that triggered the end of the game gets to go one more time also just like splendor. But again the trade cards that you pick up are hard to tell what is good unless its obvious. Like there are trade cards and then there are also production cards which are the ones that are easier to tell that they are more valuable. There is a production card that gives you one free brown cube and is totally OP. And the one that gives you 4 free yellows is OP as well. But the one rule that makes this game great regarding the trade cards is that as long as you have the resources for it, you can do the same trade multiple times. For example if a trade card says you can trade one yellow and one red to get one brown then you can get two brown if you have 2 yellow and 2 red to convert into the 2 brown. Anyways, this is a great game that I played at a game night and instantly wanted to get a copy for myself. Especially since it sold out from the first shipment to stores and recently came back in stock. If you're not getting this for yourself, it's a great present for someone else. I'd get it before it sells out again.