Review
Quorum
Quorum is a compact drafting and combo game with enough bite to avoid becoming a harmless half-hour filler. It does not have the fuller ambition of Devir’s more substantial small boxes, but it is admirably clear about its own scale.
- Published
- 2025
- Designer
- Raul Franco Jiménez, Fran Martínez Rosa
- Publisher
- Devir, 999 Games
- Players
- 2–4
- Playing time
- 45 min
Quorum is one of those small games that fits neatly into half an hour without arriving at the table to coddle anyone. It has some teeth: clever, pleasantly busy, and demanding enough that it never feels like time being padded out.
Its centre is a draft of twelve cards. Players select parts for their own little engine of combinations, attempting to turn an apparent point-salad collection into something that genuinely works together. The interesting decision is which card improves your position now without handing the next obvious step to somebody else.
The interesting decision is which card improves your position now without handing the next obvious step to somebody else.
TheTrainSpotter
The god cards give the puzzle its useful twist by affecting scoring multipliers. That means the draft is not merely a matter of collecting agreeable things: other players' selections can alter the value of yours, and the interaction lies in what you take and what you permit to travel around the table.
I would reach for the more substantial Red Cathedral when I want a small box to do a little more, but Quorum is not trying to be that game. It is exactly what I want from a filler: brief, consequential, and carrying just enough divine flavour to linger.
It is exactly what I want from a filler: brief, consequential, and carrying just enough divine flavour to linger.
TheTrainSpotter
Source: BoardGameGeek
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