However, I see this as a positive thing because it doesn’t really take away from the game. Are the devices going to start taking over the board game world too? Stone Age on the ipad, when it’s so much better playing it as a real board game. Negative because some may feel like it’s taking away from the traditional board gaming and I guess devices almost have a stereotypical notion attached to them that it consumes the average human being (like who are we kidding when we walk out there, what is the average person staring at or fiddling with?… iphones, androids, ipads etc everyone seems to be glued to their little device screens). Some people may see this as a positive or a negative thing. Given there has already been a new movement in boardgames being played with devices, such as XCOM, Golem Arcana, World of Yo-Ho (from kickstarter), and I’m sure there are some others I probably haven’t heard of yet and I’m not sure which game was the first to ever use a device. Out of my entire game collection (about 200+), this is probably the one game that differs from all the others because it uses a device.
This game is unique and if one likes to take on a challenge on a game, this is quite the fun way to do it. As easy as it all sounds, there is actually quite some challenging strategies and almost risk guessing and bluffing amongst players.
The person with the most reputation wins. The object of the game is to determine and publish theories of the 8 ingredients so that they will have the correct alchemical token on them, thereby gaining reputation points if your theories are correct. There are 8 different ingredients and each of them have a different composition made up of red, blue, and green potions with positives and negatives. Throughout the course of the game, players will collect ingredients, sell potions, and publish theories and as much as possible try to make valid potions in order to deduce which ingredients have which alchemical tokens. Then actions are executed clockwise around the game board starting with the first player. Then each player, starting with the last player, will place their action cubes, placing them anywhere on the 8 different action spaces they can choose from (Forage for an Ingredient, Transmutate Ingredient – converting ingredients to money, Sell Potions, Buy Artifacts, Debunk Theory, Publish Theory, Test on a Student, Drink Potion). At the beginning of every round players will determine the play order. This is a unique deduction game with a greater challenge than one can expect.
Alchemists is one of the few games that has made a movement towards the modern boardgaming incorporating devices into gameplay.
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