Mists Over Carcassonne
Players: 2-6
Play Time: 20-45 min
Ages: 10+
Overview:
Mists Over Carcassonne is a cooperative version of Carcassonne (see my review here) in which the players are working together to defeat the ghosts. There are 6 progressively harder levels to beat. Scoring actually works the same as the original game, making it easy for us to jump into, but you’re accumulating those points together to reach a target before you run out of tiles or the ghosts overwhelm you. The target score becomes higher as you progress through the levels, and additional elements like cemeteries and castles are added to the regular cities and roads.
Review:
After playing the first level, I told my husband and teenager that I probably won’t play regular Carcassonne with them again (I’ll still play it with my 6 year old). Not only is the cooperative nature nice, I really enjoyed the slight bump in complexity for this version. You have to balance trying to defeat the ghosts with scoring points, because rarely can you do both perfectly. You can plan ahead and work together to try to double your points by connecting two players’ roads and cities, which will probably be crucial in the harder levels. Plus, the meeples and ghosts are pretty cute. Additionally, it is a quick enough play that I can see us playing the harder levels even after we complete them, especially if we do it yearly leading up to Halloween.
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