13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (2015)

“Very very interesting. I love this game. I love historical games. The game comes with a full, not just the rule book, but a full different book that talks about the history of what was going on and talks about each of the cards and how they played [art]. I love it.”(13:26)

“This game completely delivers. Twilight Struggle was a 5H hour SLO with a metric ton of analysis paralysis and the odd moment of fun. 13 Days is tense, exciting, and full of difficult decisions from start to finish.”(12:58)

13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a nail-biting, theme saturated two-player strategy game about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

“I was thoroughly impressed and thoroughly surprised with this game, so I'm going to stop babbling now and I'm just going to tell you, you want to buy this one, seriously.”(12:01)

“I like it a lot, it plays very quickly, like I said, you can get this down to about 30 minutes once you've played it a couple of times, um, and it's surprising the amount of, sort of, you know, we'll call it narrative arc to the game in such a short time frame.”(12:17)

The reviewer highlights 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis as a tight, highly strategic historical card-driven game that successfully distills intense geopolitical tension into a streamlined and engaging two-player experience.

The reviewer praises 13 Days as a streamlined, tense, and engaging micro-Twilight Struggle that brilliantly captures Cold War pressure and decision-making in a compact playtime.

“I really like it this is one that I would pull out again and again and I want to give an awesomess rating of nine”(13:24)

“This is a fantastic abstraction of the Cuban Missile Crisis that can teach you a little bit of history, putting you in the shoes of the great leaders as you are trying to push things so that you are able to win without pushing them too far and causing everyone to lose.”

The reviewers found 13 Days to be a tense, compact, and compelling historical game that successfully distills the high-stakes strategy of Twilight Struggle into a much tighter and more accessible playtime.

“While it's not quite the same vibe as Twilight Struggle, it's still a great game that should appeal to fans of Twilight Struggle as well as history buffs who want a quick 2-player experience.”

“I, I can respect the work that was done to manage to get something boiled down to this level. It's just I don't really want a game boiled down to this level.”(8:02)