Splendor is an engine-building and resource management game in which two to four players compete to collect the most prestige points. The game has the following components: Released in 2022, Splendor Duel is a two-player only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design. [11] Awards [ edit ] a b Law, Keith (July 21, 2014). "Boardgame Review: Splendor". Paste Magazine . Retrieved November 14, 2015.

In 2020, Splendor: Marvel was released, a re-themed version of the game based on characters from Marvel Comics, notably revolving around the Infinity Gauntlet storyline where Thanos attempts to collect the Infinity Gems. [10] Set up of the game is very simple. Separate the cards into their three types and then lay them into three rows of four cards. Place out the location tiles, Avengers tile, Infinity gauntlet tile and all the chips. Done! This is all achieved within a minute. To explain the game to a new player, you are talking about just one minute more! When one player reaches 15 prestige points, the players continue playing the current round until each player has taken the same number of turns. Once this occurs, the game ends. While this game is about building a team, don’t be fooled by the other players! This is very much a cooperative game and you must fight to recruit the best heroes you can as you can only emerge victorious if you have the strongest team on your side! Prestige is gained through development cards and noble tiles. A card or token is worth as many prestige points as indicated by the white number printed on the top left angle of the card or noble tile. If a card has no such number, it’s worth zero points.

Wray, Chris (2017-09-11). "Cities of Splendor: An Expansion Review". The Opinionated Gamers . Retrieved 2022-02-06.

Even though Splendor Marvel uses Splendor’s core rules and high-quality materials, it has a different color structure, a new endgame trigger, and new victory conditions. You can also gain Infinity Points with the Avengers Assemble tile that can be passed from one player to another several times during the game! Your other two options are to either recruit or reserve a character card. Characters have their recruitment requirements clearly on them. This will be a number of coloured stones they need to join forces with you. They will then bring with them the permanent stone purchasing power to your team. So that in later turns, you will be able to recruit characters using just the characters themselves. You use temporarily owned Infinity stones to recruit characters who will then bring with them permanently own Infinity stone power.

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a b Padla, Rei (July 10, 2015). "Be the best jewel trade merchant in 'Splendor' digital board game". Android Community . Retrieved November 23, 2018. But what remains from the original is the sweet satisfaction of building your engine. For anyone who has not played an engine builder before. Let me briefly explain this beautiful mechanic. At the start of the game, you have no engine. Just you. As you begin to recruit characters in your team, they will bring with them bonus colours. Powers to recruit more characters using their combined powers. Acquiring one character my increase your “mind” strength for example, and when added to other cards than have brought your combined “reality” and “soul” strength, this may mean you can now get another character card that needs one of each to recruit. Your engine now has more parts to it. More strength and power. You have built a functioning, working, efficient engine. An expansion of the game, Cities of Splendor, was released in 2017, including four modules (The Cities, The Trading Posts, The Orient, The Strongholds). The Opinionated Gamers gave a positive review, describing the changes as subtle and varied. [8] The end game has changed as I mentioned above. Players now need to have not just the required points like the original, but now also, one bonus of each colour and one green infinity token. This is all clearly marked on the infinity gauntlet tile in simple iconography, which stays present throughout the game. So, it is all very simple to learn and play. The player who has the most prestige points by the end of the game is the winner. If there is a tie, the player who bought the fewest development cards is the winner.