Spectacular Review
7.2To try
Spectacular is a management game combining dice, tiles, and drafting, offering a rich and tense strategic puzzle every turn. Despite its cumbersome setup and sometimes confusing scoring, it will appeal to fans of optimization and planning games.
Positives
- A successful mix of dice management, tile placement and drafting
- Dual management (personal tiles + common circulating reserve) original
- Constant tension in the choices: dice or animals
- Strategic depth and strong optimization dimension
Negatives
- A bit cumbersome to set up
- Theme present but quite superficial
- Counting is sometimes laborious and unclear
- Visually loaded tray