The cool thing is that the deck-building is tied so completely to the map, and all those little armies and ships and gold and other resources, and even the option to build structures like castles or roads, are tied to your cards. The first thing you need to understand is that Mythotopia really is a deck-building game, through and through, and the player who assembles the best card engine is very likely to be the player who ultimately wins. The whole shebang, set up for two players. The question, then, is whether Mythotopia transcends that earlier game’s shortcomings, or if there’s a Mythotopia Mallet waiting to fall. Sadly, Mythotopia is more of a spiritual successor to Wallace’s earlier title A Few Acres of Snow, a game I only played once and wasn’t particularly taken with - a relief, as it later turned out that a single strategy (ominously deemed the Halifax Hammer) was so potent that all other strategies soon crumbled before it.
Which is why, upon hearing that Wallace was making another deck-building-on-a-map hybrid, I did a little happy-dance. Lovecraft and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and as far as genre mashups go, that’s the one that pushes all my buttons with squamous webbed toes.
Martin Wallace has already earned the distinction of being one of my favorite game designers this year thanks to his wonderful and anarchic A Study in Emerald, which casts its players as saboteurs, detectives, and political agitators fighting against (or secretly supporting) their alien overlords during the dawn of the 20th century.
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