Rio Grande Games Dominion Empires Game for 168 months to 960 months

I really love all the mechanics this game introduces. All the tokens are high quality, and the card interactions are really fun.

I was worried that Donald X would run out of ideas, but Empires is a clear-cut proof that he is very far from it. If anything, hes getting better: where some early expansions included poorly-designed dud cards, the Empires cards are uniformly fun to play.

Another awesome Dominion expansion. More events, another orange card, more victory token cards, debt tokens which allow purchases before you can afford them, and stacks that change halfway through the pile. Cool stuff that plays well. Also a new card type: Landmarks. Landmarks are essentially additional victory point goals. For instance, one of them gives 3VP for each set of copper/silver/gold you have at games end. Castle victory card stack has cards worth more and more VP as you buy into it and they have abilities. Theres a treasure/action card that will double an action OR treasure card it is played with! I loved the previous expansion Adventures but this set plays a little bit smoother. Fun new mechanics and cool angles on old ones.

Some great new cards and concepts.

Nice expansion.

Fun new twists to the game.

Adds lots of new complexity to the game and maintains the quality cards/art that the original has.

They keep adding new features which keeps the game interesting

great game. I have 4 expansions to add to the variety possible.

The focus of this set appears to be rule changes. The Landmark and Event cards are the main features, and these have a large impact on how you play the game. I often find myself with several options of a next move, and I have to strategically weigh up the options. In other sets, next moves tend to be obvious. This set also makes it difficult to track who is ahead (because of landmarks, VP-token-gaining cards, more green VP-cards, situationally over-powerful cards, etc). For example, I was losing one 2P game horribly at 1 province vs 4, with minimal money. Then with some thinking, I managed to buy the remaining 3 provinces and some other high-VP cards in 1 turn, winning the game. The outcomes are often unpredictable. The set also introduces debt: buy now, pay later rules. This makes first turns quite different as well, as its possible to buy expensive cards right off the bat.