Fantasy world: Greek legends A reskin of a classic fantasy realm card game by With Kids. You are trying to combo a card with a hand of 7, but you must gain a card on your turn and then discard a card. This game has several iterations with different themes. This version has refined the details and placed Greek mythology themes. This game can be played with 2-6 players and takes 20 minutes. Bruce Glasco and it was published With Kids.
What’s inside the box?
- 79 cards
- 6 reference cards
- 1 score pad
- 1 rule book
How about playing?
Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends plays like any other fantasy realm. You start with a hand of cards and either draw a card randomly from the top of the deck or take one of the face up cards from the discard area. Gain new cards and add cards from your hand to the discard pile area. This continues until there are a total of 10 cards in the central discard area. Every card in each player’s hand counts up points, and the player with the highest score wins.
Cards score in different ways listed on the card. Some cards score if you also have another card or type of card. Some cards earn points for each specific type of card you own. Some cards add tags to other cards to further boost your score. Some bonuses require the card to be in your hand or in the “afterlife”. Finally, some cards clear tags, bonuses, and even penalties.
The afterlife is an area owned by each player and consists of cards placed face up. Cards are added to this area by the actions of other cards or by the death of monster cards. You may also add cards to this area. Cards in this area are still used for points, tags, and interactions with all other cards. But at the end of the game, each card in the afterlife gives you minus 10 points.
When the game ends, the 10 cards are placed in an area to be discarded all together again. To do this, first enable the “clear” bonus, and then enable the penalty for clearing something. Next, enable the bonus of adding tags. Check to see if there is an endgame effect that moves cards from your hand to the afterlife. Finally, add up the points listed on the card and the points shown at the bottom of the card. Remember to subtract 10 points per card in the afterlife.
verdict
Also, Fantasy Realms – Greek Legends is a reskin of the original Fantasy Realms by WizKids. There have been a few other games similar to Fantasy Realms, but overall, this reskin of Greek Legends may be the closest to the 2017 original.
The game’s graphic design is clean and easy to prepare. The left side of the card displays an icon, and the bottom shows similar icons or explains how to earn additional points. There’s not much confusion about this.
Gameplay is nice and simple: draw a card from somewhere on the table, either from a random pile or from a discarded face-up card, add it to your hand, and discard a card. All in all, you’re trying to line up your cards and try to get good combos against each other to score points. But you don’t have all the time in the world, so sometimes you just need to get as many cards as possible to get some points instead of aiming for something big.
This version of the game adds your own mountain of “afterlife”, which you can score, but you don’t get points for having them. Therefore, you should only place them if they are useful overall.
The theme of the game is Greek mythology, but I feel like it’s not used much in the game. The card is fine and decent, but nothing more. This game is a small box game with a great theme and the cards work well together. Easy to learn many decisions to earn points. There are several ways to win the game. To earn extra points, you must balance your card’s points and benefits.
I would also like to see additional themes. I know they did a Marvel remix. It would be great to see Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. But either way, the mechanics are good without being too complicated, and they have a great system that allows you to change skins over and over again. I can’t wait to see what the next theme will be.
Image via WizKids
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