Dragonflight GameCon 2025 - Day 2

Forest Shuffle

Started the morning off with Forest Shuffle, which I covered my solo experience before. It was really interesting playing at 5 players, the deck was going by really fast especially when one of the players played 3 raccoons late in the game. What was also interesting was hearing how for other players who played at smaller player counts how different the game felt to them. I do feel like at the higher player count you just have to kind of ignore the clearing till its your turn since there’s a likelihood that it’ll just get wiped. Overall it was a really fun time.

Veiled Fate

Ended up not happening because the host didn’t show…

Mini Rails

So instead someone at the table had Mini Rails and taught two of us who hadn’t played before.

As one of my first economic train games that I played, I definitely liked how simple and small this game was. The direct interaction was quite difficult to overcome, especially when I took the 5 point middle spot with yellow and then the other players knocked me down 5 points with their build action.

Wine Cellar

Played a short solo game of Wine Cellar. It’s a quick auction style game where you use bottles of wine to bid for drafting wines that were used as bids from previous rounds. All the while you’re trying to order wines for points and acquire certain types and countries of origin for the wines.

Bot Factory

I used to own Bot Factory, but because I never got around to playing it and the worry as a Vital Lacerda game, I ended up auctioning it off in a previous Dragonflight GameCon year. The library had a copy so I gave it a whirl. It’s worker placement with interlocked actions, and although I didn’t get to finish my game it’s something I wouldn’t mind to have come back to my library. So a little bit of opportunity loss and regret.

Galactic Cruise

Had a good time playing Galactic Cruise, which I’ve raved about in a previous post. There were two new players that were taught the game. I learned one rule that I had played wrongly, you get money per destination when doing the presale tickets. But overall, I was actually a good resource a handful of times in correcting certain misinterpretations of rules for both the experienced player and the teacher.

I did alright, probably could have done better but overall I’m just happy to have gotten to play such a fun and interesting game. Scoring wise, we got trounced by the experienced player, they lapped everyone with over 200 points at the end of the game.

And that was day 2. I also got notified for items that had already sold before the auction:

• Nocturne
• Trekking the World
• My Father's Work
• Cube Monster
• Micro Architects
• Micro Cosmos
• The Queen's New Capital
• Sagrada Artisans

Tomorrow will mostly just be the auction, but we’ll see if I can play anything.