Playing a Shield card allows the player to steal any in play Sword card that is not already paired with a Shield card thus creating a pair. Placing a Crown card down will award player points and they also get to give the Jester Cap token to one opponent which will also score points. This is done by playing Dragon Action cards. Dragon Action cards either allow you to make noise wake up the dragon or make no noise let the dragon fall back to sleep.
When noise is made, one of the three Dragon boards are flipped from the blue-side to the colored-side, signifying that the dragon is stirring. If noise is reduced, just the opposite occurs.
A colored-side is flipped to the blue-side, signifying the dragon is falling back to sleep. The Cloak card negates other cards after they have been played. For example, it can be used to cover one Dragon Action card, ruining a possible set. The round ends when the dragon is fully awoken, the last card from the draw deck is taken, or any player begins their turn with no cards in their hand.
Points are earned from having sets of cards treasure, Dragon Actions, equipment, etc. Player now announce their scores. The game continues with a initial set up and another round of game play. The game ends when a player earns 5 or more victory points at the end of the round. The Child Geeks enjoyed their time with Hoard , finding it to be a game they quickly could grasp and play.
I like waking the dragon the best. Because if you let players keep collecting treasure, it is harder and harder to win the round. The longer the dragon sleeps, the more treasure all the players can collect. This may seem like a great thing until you realize that victory only goes to the players who collect the most. If everyone is allowed the freedom to collect as much as they want, the chances of obtaining a victory point are reduced due to the number of other players who are doing the same thing.
This is why waking the dragon is a great way to end the round when you think you have the advantage. A fact the Child Geeks quickly learned and enjoyed. All the Child Geeks voted to approve Hoard. The Parent Geeks also enjoyed the game, both with their families and with their friends. I was skunked a few times with the points and I see now that I have to play much more aggressively.
That spot shifts during the game and keeps the players on their toes. All the Parent Geeks voted to approve Hoard. Hoard is fun enough by yourself, but it's a really good time when you get some friends together to compete online. Dragons can attack each other, steal gold from enemy hoards, and bully towns into sending them regular offerings.
There are a few strategic options available to players: do you go on the offensive and interfere with other players or just mind your own business and try to claim as much gold as you can?
Be warned, though: very few players are gathering their hoard online in the PC version as of this writing. Every piece of gold you bring back to your lair will give you experience points that can be spent to level up your dragon and make it faster, stronger, and more powerful. There are a handful of stats you can choose to boost -- another strategic decision for you to make -- but no need to stress over it because your dragon will be back to Level 1 at the start of the next game.
There's nothing persistent about Hoard and no campaign to work through — everything you gain in a match will be gone the next game and there is no story to follow. It's designed for quick multiplayer skirmishes that are a whole lot of fun, but as such, it's a somewhat limited experience. It's also not much to look at, with a pretty bland board game presentation that lacks personality.
The PC version of Hoard can be played with either a gamepad or keyboard and mouse controls. I was having a fine time with the keyboard and mouse until the controls locked up and my dragon would only fly downwards.
The problem was rectified when I plugged in an Xbox controller, but then the game froze after a few minutes. More Reviews by Daemon Hatfield. Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha Review. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Review. Far Cry New Dawn Review. Presented by truth. Top 10 Anime of IGN Logo Recommends. Kirby and the Forgotten Land Logan Plant 3.
This is where the biggest problems lie. First let me say that the controls are quite fine. Not perfect, but perfectly usable. Except on keyboard. Don't do that. Get a controller. It's just constant screams of agony otherwise. Nonetheless, the dragon is very slightly slippery, but you should be able to handle him just fine almost immediately. Yet survival might test you on that. Most of the 4 maps rely on removing big patches of the board so you have very little manoeuvring room like a covid nightmare, and then filling those small spaces to the brim with knights and wizard towers.
I found, like with much of this game, it's not so much about survival skills as it is luck. I don't remember this game's description mentioning bullet-hell anywhere. They must have forgotten that. But oh wait, bullet-hell games rely on pattern recognition and super tight controls and manoeuvrability. I already mentioned movement, but pattern recognition? Randomly spawn the wizard towers and let them all upgrade quickly into rapid fire obelisks of death that can snipe you from across the map.
You'll find this game is absolutely doable to a gold standard, but it might take a turn or two for the RNG to give you a necessary hand.
May the odds be ever in your favour. All in all, a rather pretty BOARD game aesthetic and nice music for a fun game best experienced for 5 minutes at a time. The idea is great. The game itself is mediocre at best. The gameplay is way too fast and hectic for my taste, and a single game is rarely more The idea is great. The gameplay is way too fast and hectic for my taste, and a single game is rarely more than 5 minutes of playing. The fast gameplay doesn't sit well with keyboard control and I'll highly recommend a D-pad type controller.
There is 4 different game modes, but it all boils down to the same: burn, kill and plunder. This game is good fun if you can't find anything else to do, but it gets old pretty fast. Play Video. Essential Links. By Metascore By user score. All Current Games ». Psychonauts 2. The Forgotten City. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. Exo One. Age of Empires IV. Halo Infinite.
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