I went all in on Duel for Middle-earth (game, expansion, promos) after reading comparisons to 7 Wonders: Duel suggesting its superior.

Sigh

For us, the design changes didn’t quite land. Removing the economy and point system shifts the tension. The game offers less strategy options. The battlemap makes the winner obvious early on. There is much less room to recover from a slow start.

It may work better for others, but it didn’t click for us.

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finally had a chance to try out 7 wonders duel. me and wife did four rounds 😁

we both enjoyed it and hopefully it stays feeling good after some 10 to 20 games. i have heard the expansions makes it even better, but i like vanilla on principle.

tbh, its hard to find games that me and my wife can enjoy together. we're both competitive and would probably be better served cooperatively; but most coop games, frankly, kinda suck.

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