Overview
In My Little Scythe, your goal is to earn trophies! There are eight possible categories; the first player to earn four trophies wins.
You control two animal miniatures. Each turn, you choose one available action (it cannot be your action from the previous turn):
- move: independently move your two figures 1-2 tiles on the map.
-- if you enter a space with a gem or apple, it becomes yours (but limits your movement).
-- if you end on a space with a scroll, you can 'explore', drawing an exploration card and choosing an option on it.
-- if you enter a space occupied by an opponent, a pie fight ensues! Deduct your friendship score by one (you started it!). Using your pie meter, secretly choose how many pies you commit to the fight, and supplement it with a pie card if able. Higher pie score wins! Both sides deduct their pie meter by how many they chose respectively, the loser teleports back to their starting square, and the winner keeps all the apples/gems on the hex.
- seek: roll dice and place gems/apples in the corresponding regions rolled. If you place an item on a hex occupied by an opponent, you gain friendship!
- make: turn in your gems/apples to draw magic cards, upgrades, or increase your pie level.
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| game in progress; image from here |
You gain trophies in eight different ways, which include:
- reaching a friendship score of eight,
- reaching a pie level of eight,
- completing two exploration cards,
- having two upgrades,
- having three magic cards,
- other things I forget.
Review
I enjoyed this light-hearted take on the much more serious Scythe game. It is competitive, but also "compelled cooperative" in the sense that you need to help others to advance your own scores. That was a cool concept. And I quite enjoyed the 'friendship score,' a variant of which I may mandate in my own household ("want screen time, kids? You need to do 5 nice things for each other to be eligible"). It makes me want to try the grown-up Scythe game.
Rating: B+
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