If you’ve had even a casual interest in tabletop or games over the last few years, then you’ve probably heard the name . A kind of all-in-one role-playing board game with legacy elements, it’s consistently held a top 10 spot on since its 2017 release. It’s also renowned for being an expensive and super-dense beast of a game, which weighs almost as much as a slab of beer and takes about as much space to store.
Cephalofair’s first response to making more accessible on some of these fronts came with the 2020 launch of a narrative prequel, , which cut the price-point and physical size down by two-thirds. Almost as a mocking response to those who felt that was even still entirely too much, in comes : a purely solo player spin-off that costs little more than a set and is packed in a box the size of a brick of butter. The designers at publisher Cephalofair claimed during its development that was so compact that it would be perfectly playable on an airplane tray table.
With me having already booked travel from Australia to the U.S. a week after it began hitting stores, I simply had to know if this was true.
UA99 from MEL to LAX Determined to be as fully committed to the bit as possible, I opted to not even open the box until I’d sat down in my economy seat. This presented me with my first experience ever of being thankful for departure delays, as much to my surprise, box does contain the rulebook. There’s a 35 page quick-start guide, (and yes, I fully acknowledge how in.
