Dune: Imperium

It's a good time and has Timothée Chalamet in it.

So, I purchased this game as a lover of deckbuilders. When I first entered and started the tutorial, it was a very overwhelming experience. It felt like information was flying at me like a swarm of bats, and only some caught in my hair. The tutorial comes in 3 stages, getting more and more complex. You face off against 1 opponent or no opponent in the tutorial matches, and have about 20 different mechanics and sub rules explained to you in that time. If you have the DLCs, they completely change basic board places and starting cards that existed before, making your prior tutorial practice much less valuable and confusing, especially as a first time player. The tutorial needs to be updated when you have the DLCs, not added to. The next interesting choice is that you cannot play with anything less than three players in any regular play mode, even though the tutorial did not prepare you for that option. There is often very little sign that you can't do something either. A great example is deploying troops, where you'll receive troops from a play, but then just, not get an opportunity to deploy any, and there's no indicator why, since the option doesn't appear unless you can. The UI thus has no way to explain why you can't in that moment. A better setup would include the button at all times, but grey it out with an error describing the problem when moused over. There also is often no reminder or explanation text on cards, only icons. Often you have to play a card to figure out exactly what it does. This makes it difficult to parse a card as a new player, and hinders skill growth. Ranked play matching looks very tedious, as there are set times where the queue opens, and you are then matched into a large bracket tournament, without any real ranked quickplay options. On top of that, there are reviews saying you cannot play ranked unless you have purchased all DLC. I am not sure how true this is, as I purchased them all myself. I saw some other reviews saying that this is a video game version of a board game, which honestly makes sense, as the board game market is oversaturated with these hypercomplex games designed to have you sit down for 5 hours with a few friends. All in all, this game is very hard to get into to start, and I feel very underprepared by the tutorial while also being undersupported by the UI. I hope that as I play this game and as it develops, these problems remedy themselves, as it has a long way to go to be accessible to a wide audience. I may change my recommendation later if this becomes the case.

MMMM Jessica

The GOAT of board games. A must have for Dune fans. All the mechanics make sense, the challenge mode gave me like 50 hours of entertainment and I still went and bought it on steam just to play with my friend.

Best boardgame ever

My favourite board game

最喜欢的桌游之一，重开率高，战斗也很刺激，变化莫测，是线下线上经常推荐给朋友玩的好游戏。然后电子版做的非常不错，希望能持续更新（DLC价格可以便宜些更好 hahaha）