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29 September 2018

Board Game Review: Century: Golem Edition

I have recently grown to enjoy playing Century: Golem Edition. I've played it a few times now, and my delight with the game grows with each replay. So today, I will share my thoughts on this game with you.

If you're not familiar with this game, it is functionally identical to the game Century: Spice Road, of which Golem Edition is a reimplimentation. The only difference between the two is the artwork, and the fact that Spice Road uses wooden cubes:

Three of the four colours of cubes: yellow, red, and green. Each colour is contained in a small brown plastic bowl, about five centimeters (two inches) in diameter

...whereas Golem Edition uses plastic gems:

The plastic gems in their storage container in the game box. The containers are each diamond-shaped pentagons situated together so that they each form a quarter of an octagon in the box. The gems colours are yellow, green, blue, and pink.

The theme is different as well; in Spice Road, you are spice traders looking to make your fortune leading trading caravans across the long trade routes to bring valuable spices to your customers. In Golem Edition, you are mining and crafting soul gems, which are used by the great masters to construct golems.