Your rating:
CloudAge is a strategy game from Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender. The award-winning authors have created a dark and dystopian world for 1 to 4 players. Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" set fire to countless oil production sites and burned down large forests to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental catastrophe had disastrous effects on the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel above the dried-out landscape in your airships, searching for a better life. You visit cities, send out drones to collect resources, and battle Cloud militia. An innovative sleeving mechanism makes a new, more immersive, form of resource gathering possible. Players try to predict which cloud-covered terrain will contain the desired amount of resources or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships or attract new crew members. CloudAge is a mix of engine-building, deck-building, and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to start playing quickly, with new elements being introduced into the game as players progress through the chapters. While you play, you also experience and help guide the story. If you prefer, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as single scenarios. —description from the publisher
| Year | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Designers | Alexander Pfister, Arno Steinwender |
| Artists | Christian Opperer |
| Publishers | Hobby World, Maldito Games, Matagot, Capstone Games, Mandoo Games, Surfin' Meeple China, dlp games, 株式会社ケンビル (KenBill), Board Game Rookie, Nanox Games |
| Players | 1–4 |
| Time | 60–100 min |
| Status | Previously owned |
| BGG Rating | 7.1 |
| Categories | Science Fiction, Adventure, Aviation / Flight |
| Mechanics | Hand Management, Push Your Luck, Grid Movement, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building |
| BGG Rank | 1589 |
| Complexity | 2.84 / 5 |
| Language | Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups |
| Date | Location | Duration | Qty | Players | Scores | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2021-01-30
Details
|
– | 1 | MourningDragon, Yashima | 107.00, 115.00 | 115.00 | |
|
|
2020-12-28
Details
|
At home | – | 1 | Yashima, Yashimii 🤖 | 88.00, 101.00 | 101.00 |
|
|
2020-12-21
Details
|
At home | – | 1 | Yashima, Yashimii 🤖 | 88.00, 82.00 | 88.00 |
|
|
2020-12-20
Details
|
At home | – | 1 | Yashima, Yashimii 🤖 | 69.00, 65.00 | 69.00 |
My BGG Comment
Not a bad game but not a great game either. In a melting pot of mechanisms nothing really stands out. A bit of deck building, tableau building, hand management, grid movement, a campaign... the materials aren't great either.