Stone Age

I got this game during the pandemic to add a little spice to an otherwise fairly repetitive "friends night in" game night. We were used to Catan and Monopoly, and this was a great addition. It's a fairly simple worker placement game where you got to balance your priorities between gathering food, growing your population, collecting materials, building structures, and researching technologies. At the start of the game, you have a fairly small population, but by the end, each person has a tribe with its own set of unique strengths. I personally go for the farming method if the "build a farm" area is not too crowded to save me from catching food later. My brother may go for the "love hut" method to get a lot of people quickly. Whereas another friend goes for hoarding resources and tools so he can build the best buildings. It's insanely gratifying to build up your civilization into something even better each turn. It can also be nerve-racking if you're really low on food and you need your people in the forest to catch a certain amount of food and you're not sure if they can do it. The dice rolling dynamic puts in a good amount of randomness to balance out an otherwise purely strategy-based game. I like how the game doesn't play out as competitive. Though there is a winner at the end of each game, as we go through we get so invested in helping each other and making our own tribes that it feels like more of a collaborative game. Excellent game and it's set to go on for just the right amount of time usually about 60-90 minutes for a three-person group.

We are casual gamers that love and very in-depth game occasionally. This game fits the mark to a more in-depth game where the mechanics can easily be recalled months down the line for replaying the games. Would recommend this anyone looking for a fun game that requires some planning with multiple strategies for winning and allows you to connect with friends. My 7 year old wanted to play but she does not have the focus to play this long of a game.

Stone Age is the perfect example of a worker placement game that is both accessable to those new in the hobby and deceptively complex enough for veteran board game players. The gameplay is simple and involves each player taking turns to contribute workers to various sections of the board in order to fulfill specific actions granted by each individual section, though the complexity comes in through the management and allocation of certain resources in order to drastically increase the total points you receive when constructing new buildings in your village and by investing in specific cards that will multiple your score in certain areas such as agriculture or making babies. Additionally, the randomized gameplay element of using dice in order to determine the success of your workers further heightens the enjoyment of the game by injecting it with a perfect amount of spontaneous moments of shock when two of your workers somehow manage to return to the village with roughly half of the lumber available in the forest or when five workers somehow only bring home one measly berry on their hunting expedition, which leaves your entire village on the brink of starvation. To make the effect even more cohesive within the atmosphere of the game, is that the game uses a leather cup and wooden dice, which, on the surface appears quite trivial, but, after countless hours of playtime, they prove to be absolutely essential to the tactile pleasure of playing Stone Age. This boardgame is a classic that stands up to the standards of today and is absolutely worth the time of any board game enthusiast, though games tend to last longer than expected even with built-in timers that bring about ending the game (purchasing the last building in a stack or purchasing the last development card in the deck).

One of the best board games ever, a must have for people that enjoy worker placement and resource gathering games.

Fun game! Takes a while to play, but it’s definitely worth playing.

This is a very interesting and complex game. It is very good challenge if you like making long-term strategies and sitting down with some friends for a long game. The game arrived still in its plastic packaging and all pieces were present. There was even an extra blue meeple. The box also cam with internal dividers and bags for separating the interior into quadrants and store the pieces. Aside from the dividers nothing really holds the pieces in place but there has been no issue storing the box on its side. In the few sessions I have played it, the game has taken at least an hour. the mechanics work well, but it can be frustrating for an entire play to fall apart just because of one dice roll. But that is simply the nature of the game. It takes a bit of work to introduce new people to the game because of the unique nature of the cards and huts, but once they became familiar with the symbols then everything fell into place. The only complaint I have is that, for the game to work really well, you need four people. The game felt like a grind with just two and the mechanics set in place to restrict two players did not stop us from maxing out our agriculture scores and both of us broke 300 points. We did not have the opportunity to finish the 3-player game. Overall, though this is a great game if you are interested in something a little heavier than Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan. Strongly recommend.

our family plays board games often and as our son gets a bit older 11 years old now, we have been looking for different styles of games to play. We bought this game as our first delve into worker placements games. The rules are easy to learn. There is enough strategy for experienced board gamers to enjoy while also being something kids can play and enjoy. The artwork is great, and all the pieces are well made. Quality is excellent for the price and totally worth it. 100% recommend

Hat sich der Filius unbedingt gewünscht. Papa war skeptisch, aber jetzt hat er auch ihn im Fieber. Ein tolles Spiel, das sogar schon die 10 jährigen Nachbarjungen mitspielen. Mischung aus Taktik und Zufall (Würfelglück) und somit ein grosser Spass. Manche Regeln sind zwar nicht völlig klar, aber dann denken wir sie uns halt aus :)

Terrific family worker placement game which is easy to understand and has great replayability. One of the all-time classic gateway games which led to Agricola, Caverna etc.

La calidad de los materiales es muy buena, llegó a tiempo. ¡Excelente compra!

This is a great game, very straightforward and quite accessible for a wide age group, definitely suitable for families with older children. The majority of the components don't require you to read details which I know is a plus for some people. As far as the gameplay goes it's relatively easy to grasp, you have a starting number of villagers (this number can increase) and you can assign villagers to perform tasks, this includes hunting, gaining building materials, increasing farm size, adding village members, building structures and completing activity cards. As you complete tasks and make buildings you get victory points and the person, after the end game effects occur, with the most points is the winner. The components are of a high quality overall, including: resources made of shaped wood (food & tool tokens are made of card), the buildings and cards are of decent quality with nice artwork, the villagers are shaped so are unique for the game, player boards are clear and suitable to use, 1st player marker (looks odd to me personally but is a nice touch), a leather dice shaker with wooden dice (14mm in size) and the game board is really nice looking too. It's worth noting that each turn you're required to feed your villagers, which I know is a pain for some people, but this is only a issue early on so how you control your resources is important. I'm aware that the price, depending on where you buy, is a little off putting but I've really enjoyed this game and I believe this is a good family game that can be used to play games with people who rarely boardgame.