Matthew BaileyGame #4 of our “UKGE ROUNDUP 2024” is “Mycelia,” which we played at the “Ravensburger” stand and like “Happy Home” was one of the “must have games” people were buzzing about on my travels at the expo.
“Mycelia” is a deck building games based around the idea of clearing your forest floor of dewdrops with the help of mushrooms people.
to do this you have to use cards that can remove dewdrops from the grid or move them into the portal square to again remove them from the grid.
When removed they are placed on a cool “shrine of life” that when full is rotated and drops them down along with a dice that denotes a place one will be added back.
While doing this you are collecting leaves to use as currency to buy things what can be done at any point on your turn.
Apart from the interesting mis of deck building an token moving one of the key things that makes this slightly different to most deckbuilding games is that when you buy a new card rather than it going into your discard pile it goes into your hand and can be used immediately. This adds a lot more thought into play order and hand management that I have seen in this type of lighter deckbuilding game before.
Jack really liked this and beat me quite comfortably. Its simple to understand but its quite complex to get everything to slot into place and use your cards efficiently.
Component quality was good and the “shrine of life” is fun. I do wish it had a section to catch all of the dewdrops at the bottom rather than them skidding over the table but it’s a minor complaint.
We enjoyed our time playing this and purchased a copy so will definitely do a complete review as part of our Summer marathon.
For the first time since starting these roundups it is however available to buy now and at a decent price.
Zatu – £27.48 – https://www.board-game.co.uk/product/mycelia-game/
Note: There is another game that was on Kickstarter recently also called Mycelia which is a totally different unrelated games.
