Thesauros

If you’re not playing anyway, why not go fishing? A game that slipped away from the temple’s procurement department, but ended up in the collection of the other cardboard collector in the group, who, together with the now-viral little rules-explanation hand, proceeded to serve us a seafood menu. Basically, Thesauros is a resource management/worker placement euro, with strong racing elements. It would be a very simple and mediocre game if it didn’t have the peculiarity that you have to do fairly complex financial management of your company and draw up a budget for 3 rounds ahead each time. A nice little trick to add some complexity and a hard tool if you want to play aggressively, exploit the turn order and «bury» (as TheM1ke says) people. This may also be the game’s main negative: it can get quite harsh and competitive, moving quite far away from the feel-good euro logic. I would also say that it is probably better with three players; with four it is particularly demanding. Still, it was a pleasant and interesting experience, honestly thematic, and one of those games that gave grounds for further discussion of strategies after the end of the game. Good stuff.