"Ada's Dream is a heavy Eurogame featuring a dice-drafting rondel as a means of interacting with three distinct mini-games. Players embody contemporaries of Ada Lovelace as they work with her to build the first computer. The game leans into this theme with a gorgeous production featuring point-scoring objectives on adorable punchcards and dual-layered gears used to form basic mathematical functions that will help calculate your final score."
"If the theme alone doesn't entice, there's also some deck-building, track-bumping, multi-use dice (pips, colors, and draft location all have different effects), as well as set-collection, and area control. It's an AP-inducing puzzle with a mixture of short-term tactics as well as long-term strategy that is sure to appeal to lovers of brain-burning heavy Eurogames with multiple routes to victory."
2025 saw standout board games across multiple styles, including heavy Euros and complex strategy titles that offer varied routes to victory. Ada's Dream is a heavy Eurogame with a dice-drafting rondel linking three mini-games; players portray Ada Lovelace contemporaries collaborating to build the first computer, using punchcard objectives and dual-layered gears. The design combines deck-building, track-bumping, multi-use dice, set-collection, and area control into an AP-inducing puzzle balancing short-term tactics and long-term strategy. Galactic Cruise is presented as a heavyweight design likened to Vital Lacerda's rulebook-driven games and is credited to new designers T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, and Koltin Thompson.
Read at Board Game Quest
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]