Tabletop Simulator - Battle For Souls DLC

Not my favourite game ,but still decent to play

[h1]Summary:[/h1] A great game with fun strategy and some surprisingly deep play. Awesome art and easy to play once you understand the rules. [u]Note:[/u] The rules take some getting used to, as you have lots of [i]possible[/i] options on your turn, but you don't use most of them for lots of your turns. 9/10 - all the options make turns take a while for new players. [h1]Pros:[/h1] [list] [*] Fun [*] Awesome Art [*] Enjoyable Strategy Elements [*] Flexible Game Duration Options [*] Works well with Tabletop Sim's features [/list] [h1]Cons:[/h1] [list] [*] Many options on your turn can really slow the game down for new players and it takes some getting used to to learn [*] Best played with 1-2 players, more than that and it's played as teams with shared hands: not my idea of fun. [*] If you don't know how to use Tabletop Sim well, it can be difficult to navigate. [/list]

A well made and intriguing game concept. The artwork is beautiful and fits the overall game topic. Four decks of soul cards allow to tweak the length of the game. Only the host needs to own the DLC! Friends who join can simply play along. More than worth the price tag.

This game is fantastic! Before I tell you how great this game is, something important needs to be addressed: this is not a 1-4 player game as the store page says. This is a 2 player competitive card game with an option for a single player solitaire variant where the objective is to score a bunch of points before running out of cards in a certain deck. [strike]As for 4 players? You can't play with 4 players in Tabletop Sim! The table allows for just 2 players and x Spectators. Even if you try adding hands, it will not add additional seats for some reason. Berserk should either fix this or make it clear on the store page.[/strike] *edit Apparently this was hotfixed Is it a big deal? No, probably not. From what I can tell in the manual, the game probably sucks as a 4-player game. It'd be a game of two teams of two players battling each other, the main difference is that teammates can pick up each other's discards. The game is also much faster as the store page points out. Expect games to last as few as 15 minutes and longer if you add more soul cards to your game (decided before the game starts). The game description is deceiving yet again, because this isn't really a dice game; It's not a main game mechanic. Instances in which you roll a dice are rare. For the most part, dice are used as a point marker on the soul cards, indicating by varying degrees which side of the board is controlling that soul. The main mechanic used in this game is creating "poker hands" from the assortment of cards in your hand, for example 3 of a kind, Full House, etc, to add Holy/ Unholy Points to the souls. Points are then accumulated to gain souls or spent to gain other various cards that come into play to affect the board state. The manual sucks, by the way. It's not that it's confusing or anything. It's pretty well put together and doesn't jump around like some manuals do. It's just that it's excessively wordy. The manual is basically 20 pages of details for a game I could probably teach you in a few minutes. Maybe you can find a condensed version of it online. The good thing is that once you know how to play, you probably shouldn't have to reference the manual ever again. Most of what you need to know is printed on the reference cards. I guess I should tell you why I like this game. It's really fun and very well designed. It's relatively fast paced and easy to learn. If you and your friends enjoy competitive card games, you're likely to enjoy this as well, even if you don't like the subject matter.