Praga Caput Regni

Praga Caput Regni has that familiar Suchý sense of abundance: a game that fills the table, gives you plenty to handle, and somehow feels almost too generous for its price. It is the sort of box that can turn an ordinary Tuesday after work into an evening with a proper destination.

The play revolves around a range of bonuses to track and make use of, but the game’s rhythm does not lose its footing at the table. Even with players coming back to it or meeting it for the first time, it moved along cleanly and naturally.

Online, those same bonuses become noticeably fiddlier to administer, adding a little bookkeeping where the game does not need it. In person they seem to settle into place much more quietly, leaving Praga to be the honest, feelgood euro it plainly is.

What mattered most was that nobody wanted to put it away when it ended: the immediate call for another game is about as clear a recommendation as a full-bodied design can receive. For me, it is an easy 10/10, the sort of game I could probably play in my sleep.

Updated session

The later game confirmed the first impression rather than softening it. Although half the table had not played before, it was the smoothest session of the group, and left Praga Caput Regni looking entirely capable of standing up to Dune.