The Island of El Dorado Legendary Edition : Review

Primary Name
The Island of El Dorado
Year Released
2018
Designer
Daniel Aronson
Artist
Helen Zhu
Publishers
El Dorado Games
PlayMonster
Categories
Adventure
Ancient
Civilization
Exploration
Mythology
Mechanisms
Action Queue
Area Majority / Influence
Dice Rolling
Modular Board
Roll / Spin and Move
Tile Placement
Trading
Worker Placement
Family
Components: Hexagonal Tiles
Crowdfunding: Kickstarter
Occupation: Adventurer / Explorer
Region: Central America
Theme: Colonial
Theme: Tropical Islands

[@Faent89]

Great review! I love this game and have been using it as my go-to gateway game over Catan or others ever since it arrived. It has pulled several friends into the hobby! Especially with its quick setup time, ease to teach, and game mode/rule variant flexibility, you have multiple ways of playing. It actually works GREAT at 8 players btw! You have to play in teams of two and is so fun to battle it out with friends and set each other up as teammates to divide and conquer.

[@Faent89]

P.S. The artwork is actually public property since they are all history based. I believe it is from several different museums. This allowed them to save a lot of money in artwork and beef up the overall quality of the game. Pretty smart move!

[@micahh9351]

I wish this didnt get shut down. I really hope they pick the project back up.

[@PecktecGames]

They delivered it I’m not sure there will be any more though. 😰

[@Faent89]

The video goes to black with just audio a little after the 21 min mark btw

[@PecktecGames]

thanks for the heads up.

[@PecktecGames]

lol I just went and cut it out. Not sure what I did there! But thanks a bunch for letting me know.