Board Game Arena

BtS looks like a 4x/"dudes on a map" type game, and there is some of that, but the major focus is on the tech tree. Depending on the type of techs you end up investing in, you may end up with a heavy presence on the board, or very little, and there isn't any combat (it's more like area con...

I agree with Lavarp, he's an insta-grab for me. That crazy little fire fish gives 2 draw, each with an upside, customizable to what you need at the time. AND he can be recharged.

AND he's so cute with his little teeth! He's so angry!

Probably the most techtreeish of all tech-tree games is Beyond the Sun.

It is very useful, and I wonder if it might make sense to change the UI to make it more visible...because it's down at the bottom of the screen, below the main board, I think that some people may not ever notice it. It does speed things along, especially when there's some crappy 1 Crab card for sale...

That's just good old-fashioned hate drafting. It can be effective, but it's also easy to overdo it...you're essentially hurting your own development a bit in the hopes of hurting your opponent's development more. If I can reduce your score by 30 while reducing mine by 10, I just got 20 points! But i...

I'd guess that it's essentially accounting for the handicap of having the negative stars. If you have more red stars, and you still tie my score, it means that you must have gotten more of the green stars to account for that, so you had greater success regarding the goals of the Architect, Designer ...

Sorry if my wording was imprecise. I don't mean "I would appreciate...." I know the trackers are there, and they're very useful.

Just started my first game and I really appreciate having the trackers for the Architect, Decorator and Guests. I tend to think this is one way in which playing a board game digitally can be beneficial, one less thing to keep track of. Thank you!

jstoeltz wrote: ↑06 September 2026, 04:26 1. Illiad
2. Tak
3. Tzaar
4. Shobu
5. Lyngk

I love that 3 of these look like completely random strings of letters, as if a cat walked on your keyboard.

They're an optional UI element to help keep track of the cards in your hand. You can mark the cards you want to play first as a green flag, lower-priority cards as yellow, the cards you don't care about as red. Or, you can completely ignore them and not use them at all.