Review – Chrononauts: The Card Game of Time Travel
Players: 1-6
Minutes: 20-45
Ages: 11-Adult
Official Website: http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/
I’m not big on board games lately, but at a party someone took out Chrononauts and it changed my view on card games.
Chrononauts is a time travel card game, where you play as a time traveler with a secret mission, a secret identity and the job of fixing Paradoxes. Your specific card has a series of events that you will need to have happen in order to win the game, although there are a few different ways that a player can win the game. And, of course your mission will conflict with what the other players will need to accomplish. Along the way you will also collect Artifacts that you need to win. Winning allows your character to return to their own time.
So, how does a Paradox happen? Other players are able to change history by adjusting the TimeLine (the arrangement of the cards that acts like a game board).
The game itself does not take too long to play and was so much fun we started a second game right away. This is a game that I would consider a staple for a game ground, and one that any group of people can play and have fun with it: no matter the skill level. You may even learn something new about history!
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Short review, if to the point. I like the fact that Chrononauts is a 1 – 8 player game and that there are three distinct ways to win. I would note though that you have to actually ‘patch’ the timeline first to read as per your characters timeline to win. You can’t just have aa Paradox there – the patch has to be added.