ISLE OF TRAINS: A game named Desire...
Posted: 25 March 2024, 14:02
Welcome to the Isle of Trains, where you are the conductor, and constructor of one of the island’s locomotives. You’ll build trains and load a range of goods to complete contracts across the island, as well as deliver passengers to their destinations.
Isle of Trains: All Aboard is a card-based engine building game where cards have multiple uses: You can use cards as locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, or buildings to improve the effectiveness and abilities of your train. Cards can also be spent to pay for the construction of your new train cars and buildings, or you can use your cards as cargo and load them onto available freight cars.
Building passenger cars and certain locomotives allows you to draw passengers from a bag who need rides to various destinations. Load them into any available passenger car. When passengers are delivered to their destinations, they will give you an instant powerful bonus!
Loading cargo and passengers into opponents’ trains is important on the Isle of Trains as it will also gain you extra bonuses that turn! However, this action will help the other train conductors get a little closer to completing their goals by giving them the cargo or passengers, which they can then use for deliveries and big end-game points!
The game ends when a certain number of contracts have been completed, or a certain number of passengers are delivered. You win by scoring the most points, which you earn by building up your train, completing contracts, and delivering passengers.
Isle of Trains: All Aboard is all about balancing the need to upgrade your train, with loading cargo or passengers into opponent’s train for big bonuses, and delivering cargo and passengers to their destinations before anyone else. Build your engine effectively enough to be remembered as the greatest train conductor on the Isle of Trains!
And that's all you need to know to dive in it, right from its dedicated game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=isleoftrainsallaboard
Let's thanks Dranda Games as well as Seth Jaffee & Dan Keltner for their authorization to bring this game online on Board Game Arena, and of course all kudos to stefano for developing it to our platform. The game plays beautifully, and that one deserves at least your heartfelt curiosity.
And that's it for today. And that's a bit one for a Monday.
It's gonna be a very good week!
Don't forget to get a bit of sunlight, and see you in two days for our Wednesday Release Time.
Until then, take care and play fair!