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Widget Ridge (2019)

Players
1–2
Best: 2
Playing time
15–45 min
Age
12+
6.98
Average rating
108
Ratings
2.20/5
Weight
#14141
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Ian Taylor
Artist:Matt Burton
Publisher:Furious Tree Games
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.4, Theme 7
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.4
Theme7.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

Widget Ridge is a steampunk-themed deckbuilding game, traditionally for 2 players (solo mode and extra players supported).

The game follows traditional deckbuilding mechanics of starting with a terrible deck of cards, and improving it with purchases and deck-thinning abilities.

Players take turns generating Gold and making Spark, purchasing new inventions from the Marketplace of Ideas, and combining these in their Workshop to make larger, crazier machines. Players can invent things like a Clockwork-Powered Butter Gun with a Parachute, a Coal-Powered Mechanical Bison with a Grappling Hook, or a Solar-Powered Battle Corset with an Antenna. The game has over 1000 combinations in the initial release.

The basic win condition is to gather 100 Spark, but the game also includes Goal cards that can alter the rules and win condition for additional replay value. Players can choose to concentrate on the game itself, or engage the rich story environment. The game is designed for 2+ players, but will have solo rules in the box.

—description from the publisher

Expansions

Widget Ridge: The Ghost that Stole Lightning
Widget Ridge: The Fire in Which We Learn
Widget Ridge: Kickstarter Exclusive Set
Widget Ridge: The Faraday Square Incident
Widget Ridge: WALKABOUT
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