Century Eastern Wonders

We absolutely LOVE this game series! Definitely worth investing in-- it's not only fun to play (great strategy-style game), but these games have also proven to be super helpful in teaching how the spice trade impacted our world.

Excellent game, very fun and easy to learn. Playable many times and always fun. Simple yet entertaining mechanic and teaches strategy and planning.

Our family thoroughly enjoys this game. There are two things the manufacture could do to improve this game. 1.) Increase the font size on the instruction sheet. I would rather have two pages of instructions with 11 or 12 point font than one page with a tiny font size. 2.) My dad has poor vision, so he has trouble differentiating between colors that don't have strong contrast. The card that each player works off in both this game and Century Spice Road are too dark. If these cards had a light background color with dark markings, then they would provide the contrast my dad needs to see his game pieces as they sit on the card. Since, these cards are so dark my dad has to keep his game pieces to the side of his game card. Both of these issues are minor, but I think others would find it helpful if the manufacturer made these changes.

We love the century trilogy - and this middle one doesn't disappoint. It plays great with 2 as well as more players. Adds some complexity to the original, which is a GREAT game. It does help if you've played the original spice road, but definitely not necessary. Mechanism is simply trading resources for other resources to complete orders. This adds some strategy beyond the original.

A bit more set up than Spice, but more flexible gameplay. The 2 of us usually play to 8 value chips instead of 4. Still under an hour. The bowls are hard to use; we just dump the blocks on the table.

Very well designed continuation of the Century games, which are concerned with Spice Trading. The first game - Spice Road - was a deck-building, hand management game with no board. Eastern Wonders has a modular board made up of twenty islands, and you are a spice trader travelling from island to island and then to the ports to turn your spices into contracts (victory points). You can also combine the two games into another called From Sand to Sea which uses mechanics from both games. Very fun and strategic and, occasionally, frustrating when the contract you've been building toward gets snatched from you at the last second. Recommended.

As previously said this game is a sequel, not an expansion, to Spice Road. The strategies to play are familiar. There are a second set of rules to combine the game with Spice Road into one bigger game that really makes this game worth the investment. You can’t apply your same strategy to the combined game nor each time you play. It’s really something wonderfully complex for a trading game. The island tiles could be bigger and your boat/player marker could be colored differently to stand out on the board better but those really are small quibbles.

Definitely a great portal game to get people into board games. Or just a fun filler game. Regardless, the fun factor was ramped up in this installment of Century. More strategies to gain VP. Wasn’t a huge fan of the two games combined though. But separately they’re both 10/10. Must own for anyone with a Boardgame shelf IMO. Happy gaming!