World Wonders (2023)
(2023)MeepleBR, Mundus, Arcane Wonders, Super Meeple
In World Wonders, players take on the role of great leaders of the past building out their own ancient city with roads, towers, and buildings. Players manage their gold to buy tiles, increase their economy, and construct iconic world monuments to create the most prestigious ancient empire.
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The Verdict
based on 34 reviews
“There is a lot to like about World Wonders. But the best thing about World Wonders, what shoots it up somewhere into my top six games for 2023, are the last two rounds.”
“World Wonders is excellent, and I can’t wait to play it again.”
“This is a great middleweight more accessible polyal laythings down game than I was expecting this has actually exceeded”(13:24)
“This game is phenomenal, just phenomenal. I love it. I love how it looks, the components are amazing.”(10:48)
“I think you're going to love world wonders I did I'm keeping this game for a a while at least I'm going to leave it in my collection because I want to play it a few more times with some friends”(17:42)
“As you might have guessed from my intro, World Wonders scores very high on my “let’s play again” game meter. I was immediately stuck with it on my first play and I could hardly wait to play it again.”
“I'm telling you, this is going to be one of the bigger games of this year. It's a lot of fun. That's World Wonders.”(23:13)
“World Wonders though, really, really great game from Arcane Wonders. I've played it a lot, I will continue to play it, and again I said I don't, I don't love polyomino games most of the time, but this one I really, really enjoy.”(21:47)
“I do really like this game um I really like polyomino games to begin with so maybe I'm already a little biased about it but for me this is an incredibly different polyomino game it's not your standard polyomino”(26:07)
“World Wonders, in my opinion, is almost better than it has a right to be in this day and age of gaming, and the reason I say that is because it's just fun to play even though it is somewhat a basic game.”(8:42)
“This game is great, I love this game, it's a puzzle game, so anybody that enjoys puzzle games I think would definitely enjoy this game.”(8:44)
“I am chuffed by this game I think it's a lovely puzzle it looks beautiful I really enjoy it and I and I put it right up there with furnace as these simple games that you can get from Arcane Wonders that are just very simple but so very reward”(13:30)
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