Century: Eastern Wonders (2018) – Accessibility Teardown
by Michael Heron on 02/02/2019 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility
Table of Contents
- Version Reviewed
- Introduction
- Colour Blindness
- Visual Accessibility
- Cognitive Accessibility
- Emotional Accessibility
- Physical Accessibility
- Socioeconomic Accessibility
- Communication
- Intersectional Accessibility
- Conclusion
Game Details
Name
Century: Eastern Wonders (2018)
Review
Meeple Like Us
Complexity
Medium Light [2.09]
BGG Rank
586 [7.21]
Player Count
2-4
Designer(s)
Emerson Matsuuchi
Buy it!
Amazon Link
Version Reviewed
English-only first edition
Introduction
The phenomenal quality of modern tabletop games is a blessing and a curse for a reviewer. It means there’s almost always a reason to be enthusiastic – very few games, save for those marketed and playtested exclusively on Kickstarter – are genuinely bad. At worst, most games are simply mediocre or ‘not for me’. However, it also occasionally means a game that would have stood out as exceptional a few years ago ends up with a review that says ‘Great, but why would you buy it?’. Century: Eastern Wonders falls into that awkward category. We gave it four stars in our review but can’t think of many reasons why you’d go out of your way to pick it up over any number of other equally great games.
But perhaps here is [...]