Renowned Explorers

[xploring]

Anyone picked it up? Thoughts?

I have only played for a few hours so not much experience yet. The new expedition, Andean Adventure, is really fun. A lot of funny stuff happening there, the way your team can teleport back and forth as you explore make the logistics a challenge and I really had to think hard about how to go about it. Encounters with new enemies like llamas, villagers and skeletons are fun too. The campfire mechanic looks a little underwhelming at the moment, but there are 60 cards to unlock so it will get better as you play more games. You can pick your reward/bonus from treasures now so you will never get one that's useless to your team anymore. I like that but some players feel that the treasures lose identity as a result because of the semi-randomized bonus. I like it though, the choices mean you can better pick the ones suited to your strategy and it's not just fixed number of tokens for most of the treasures, it can affects how you play and your future tokens return as well.

There is a discount to the expansion and bundle now. I have never bought a game right at release at full price but I feel this game is worth it. For under $20USD, it's better than most games higher priced.