Dune: Imperium BGG ↗

My BGG Comment

This game despite a number of systems feels like I could teach it in 15 minutes. The deck building directs where you can send your workers and the workers help with the deck building. The different mechanisms merge to make one good game. The deckbuilding aspect has most of the usual tropes: buying cards each round, deck destruction, combos, card drawing... the fighty part is very straightfoward and gives each round a nice goal. As the rewards increase it certainly helps along the arc of the game.

• 20 Favorite Multiplayer Games in my collection
  I have a hard time deciding between Dune:Imp and Arnak. However I vastly prefer Arnak at 2 players. I'd love to see Dune at 3 or 4 players. It is a deck builder with a skirmish game and worker placement.
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• My Favorite Covers
  I like the minimalism of this but it bugs me that the second moon is just cut off there on the left.
• My Solo Games
• Yashima's 2023 Top 20 Solo Games
  I just enjoy this one more than Arnak because of the theme. Also because the way the worker spots are so wildly different. It makes for far more exciting play with the skirmishes at the end. Where Arnak--and in my brain those 2 will always be compared--is mostly resource management and action chaining into longer rounds, this one is a bit more swingy and I kind of like that even in the solo, even when losing against the bot and even when the bot is harder to manage than in Arnak. Ranking last year: 9 ( 🔺1)
• Yashima‘s 2024 Top 20 Solo Games
  I am surprised this came in so low. But that may be a function of how few plays I had with this compared to other games on this list. Still I really like the way this meshes worker placement with deck-building and the skirmishing. It‘s quite unique. Possibly, my still-on-going wait for Uprising might also have cost this one a few spots. I expected to have Uprising in my hands months ago but the translation took longer to arrive and then I had other acquisitions and Kickstarter Arrivals. Solo Plays 2024: 3 Ranking last year: 8 (🔻10)
• Yashima’s 2022 Top 20 Solo Games
  #9 I am a huge fan of all things Science Fiction. Not that big of a Dune nerd but along with the latest movie these are exciting additions to a great franchise. As stated before I love deck builders and this one allows for a good variety of different combos and some good engine building. The Rise of Ix expansion fixes some of the boring worker spots and bolsters the deck, so I highly recommend that. The solo plays against one of the other characters via a bot deck. There is an app for that but I find using the actual deck more intuitive. I enjoy this very much and can‘t wait for the next expansion.

Owned Expansions

• Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix
• Dune: Imperium – Immortality