Century: Spice Road
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 Century: Spice Road box cover | |
| Players | 2-5 |
|---|---|
| Playing time | 30-45 minutes |
| Skills | Strategy |
Century: Spice Road is a 2017 table-top strategy game designed by Emerson Matsuuchi and distributed by Plan B Games. The game is a simulation of fifteenth-century spice trading, and each player competes for points as they buy and sell spices represented by colored cubes.
Reception
The game has received positive reviews. The Guardian calls Century: Spice Road "slick and fast-paced," noting also that the game's "speed and simplicity mask some real depth."[2] Owen Duffy of Ars Technica calls it a "tight, brain-teasing card game."[3] The New Indian Express describes the game as "clever," also praising the game's pace, a facet encouraged by the focus on series of small, quick decisions as opposed to offering many options to consider simultaneously.[4] The game currently holds a rating of 7.4 on the website BoardGameGeek.[5]
Another review at Ars Technica states that it is "slightly more complex" than Splendor, and that it is "an absolute joy to play".[1]