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So awhile back, I some how got Dungeon Twister as part of a trade on BGG (which is pretty much the only use BGG has to me at this point, trading). I'm convinced that if you want Dungeon Twister, and have a game that you don't want, you can get Dungeon Twister as part of trade. Seriously, almost every game I have up for trade on BGG could get me Dungeon Twister.
So anyways...
I played the game once with my then-fiance-now-wife. We both enjoyed it. We were surprised with how much strategy the game involved, and twisting the rooms, while a bit tedious to do while keeping track of where everything is, was pretty cool. Most of all, it was a Euro that felt like more than just a clever distraction. It wasn't just it's theme, because as anyone who's ever read the rulebook knows, it's sort of cool but the story tacked on to this thing is batshit crazy. It's a very deep, very repayable strategic gem that doesn't get bogged down by any needless complexity. But, it wasn't a group game, and my group is who I play games with the most, not so much with just one other person. I picked up the 3-4 player expansion and set off to turn my group on to one of the few Euros that truly impress me.
Come game night...
"What are we playing tonight?"
ME: Well, I got this cool game called Dungeon Twister, and I picked up the expansion that lets us play with more than 2 people.
"Is that some sort of dungeon crawl?"
ME: No, not really.
"Okay, what else do you have?"
I got one friend to play it with me. This, however, was the kind of friend who tends not to be impressed with much of anything, and if he is, it's only for a short period of time.
5 minutes into the game...
FRIEND: Eh, I'm not really into this.
ME: Why not?
FRIEND: The artwork reminds me of 1st edition Dungeons and Dragons, and I hate 1st edition.
Go figure.
The game wasn't being played enough, so it found its way to my trade list. That was until this past Tuesday night. Somehow, the game found it's way to the table with a different group of [much cooler] gaming buddies, Adam and Marc. So we played with 3 people (which as far as I know, is a difficult number to find a game for). It was chaos...but very controlled chaos. And a hell of a lot of fun.
I spent a whole turn trying to navigate my way out of a room with my slow-moving troll (he only moves 2 spaces)...only to have my friend Marc turn the room on me on his turn from 3 rooms away. I took my frustrations out on Adam by lining my wizard up with his troll and disintegrating his ugly ass with a fireball wand. I lost the game, but that single moment made my night.
And so, Dungeon Twister has left my trade list. This is a damn fun game that deserves a whole lot more time on my table. It's Euro, and while the theme is silly, I give it credit for having the balls to not be about farming, empires, trading, building farms, building empires, trading farms, trading empires, trains, or any of the other forms of horseshit that camp likes to churn out by the bucketload.
