
I’ve decided today to do a review of a board game that’s been increasingly making a good impression on me and leaving me feeling that more people should be playing it: “The Downfall of Pompeii.”
This post was all conceived last night while my wife and I hosted a games night (seems a bit much to call it a full-fledged games night considering it was just us two and a friend of ours). Anyways, despite there just being three of us playing a board game (I generally prefer board games when five or six people are playing), we had a great time playing! The object of the game is to get the most of one’s people tokens safely outside of the city. Yes, it is a simple and straightforward objective, however its how the game goes about setting the scene and handling going about winning the game that makes “The Downfall of Pompeii” such a smart, elegant and enjoyable game to play.
Some Quick History & Then the Review
The Downfall of Pompeii is—you guessed it—centered on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, an eruption that lasted two days, killed more than 10,000 people and buried the city of Pompeii and some surrounding towns under ten to twenty feet of volcanic ash.
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