Review
Distilled
Distilled is an honest, satisfying card game about making spirits, with thematic systems and an endgame that rewards the distiller who planned ahead.
- Published
- 2023
- Designer
- Dave Beck
- Publisher
- Paverson Games, Boardgame Mall, Choo Choo Games
- Players
- 1–5
- Playing time
- 150 min
Distilled takes one of my more agreeable hobbies — drinking — and turns it into something I can call a productive evening. On the table, there is a lovely, slightly absurd pleasure in boiling vegetables, producing firewater, and sending it out into the world in handsome bottles.
Its mechanisms serve the theme without becoming slaves to it; distillation is sensibly allowed a little abstraction so that there is still a game here. You gather the ingredients and means you need, put them through the still, and try to emerge with a drink worthy of a label.
On the table, there is a lovely, slightly absurd pleasure in boiling vegetables, producing firewater, and sending it out into the world in handsome bottles.
WhiteColarGamer
The pleasing part is the rhythm near the end, when the pieces you have assembled begin to settle into place. An apparently commanding lead is not enough at final scoring: the careful housekeeper with a plan is rewarded over the opportunist whose entire portfolio is vodka.
It has plenty of body without becoming tiring, and it sits comfortably as the main course of a good game night, preferably with an Ardbeg alongside.
It has plenty of body without becoming tiring, and it sits comfortably as the main course of a good game night, preferably with an Ardbeg alongside.
WhiteColarGamer
Source: BoardGameGeek
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