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I’m going to check out Tainted Grail - sounds good. I’m fine with a bit of grind, we just found 7th continent so punishing it was impossible to get in to the story and to actually think about the puzzles and overarching mystery elements as we were so caught up with keeping alive.
In the meantime I’ve still not given Dune a try in 1 player - although I’ll be able to potentially play with other people soon.
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I sold my copy just before christmas. I played 4 curses over multiple days each time and never came close to solving one of them, I liked the idea it just lacked that thread to pull it all together properly and the hunting/discard management was tedious and counter to the actual gameplay.
That said Tainted grail is very similar in its exploration and resource management, except it uses resource cubes not a discard pile and has a very thematic cyoa storybook taking you through a pretty compelling storyline as you explore. the grind is still there to stop you just jumping around and just unlock everything at once but it's less of a chore imo and was my top game of 2019.
I played through the first campaign (30-40hrs) twice now with a different char each time and still not managed to uncover everything and had a completely different experience both times through. it's next up on my playlist again as the second wave of the kickstarter arrived in jan and I've got another 70-80 hours of campaign content to play through now.
alot of youtube board game reviewers slated it but I've found their arguments against it (and etherfields from same producer) to be somewhat disingenuous at best. it's just not their cup of tea but they level criticisms at it that they don't for games with themes they like when they do the same kind of thing, which is excellent clickbait for them too coincidentally.