Shadespire Review

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I want to play this game. But I also don't want to make room for it in my life. If it was 40k I'd immediately cave.

I love this game but I haven’t played it nearly enough.

I really like Shadespire precisely because it does indeed pack so much into such a small package. But I can't really agree that it's all in the margins: there's a lot of randomness in the game, and it rolls a winner in a significant minority of plays.

When it's only 30 minutes to play, though, that's not a significant flaw. Unless you're a tournament player.

Most of the tournaments I’ve done have done best of 3 for that reason. The same players seem to rise to the top consistently.

Sorry I realized that may have come off as terse and I didn't mean it to. Rolls can absolutely decide an individual round, but in best of 3 formats I haven't had it rear its head as bad.