Publisher: AEG
Designers: Mike Elliott, Bryan Reese, and Mark Wootton
Artists: Rodger B. MacGowan
Year: 2018
Genre: Fantasy deckbuilding game
Players: Two to four players
Ages: 14+
Playtime: 60 to 90 minutes
MSRP: $79.99
Kick back as today I devote the entire show to how to play Thunderstone Quest, from Alderac Entertainment Group, as well as my review.
Note: It seems like YouTube is doing their patented “the steam’s over an hour so it’ll take a few days to completely render” as the current video is missing about 14 minutes mid-show. Usually this takes 48 hours to sync correctly.
Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...
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I just discovered Thunderstone recently and yesterday received five games of Thunderstone Advance and its expansions (used from BGG Marketplace, of course!). Great, great deck-building game and I can’t wait to jump into it with the group. The new Quest version looks awesome as well ….. so maybe soon I’ll have to bite. : )
Thunderstone Advance really improved how easy it was to actually get into the game without jumping back and forth through a rulebook, scratching your head all along the way. The original Thunderstone was a bear to grapple with as far as the rules, that’s for sure. This new edition is excellent and we’ve had a blast in it. I love how you can play along through different chapters of a quest for a more narrative experience or just approach Thunderstone as a traditional deckbuilder with random heroes, equipment, spells, monsters, etc.