Stone Age Board Game - Engaging Worker Placement Strategy for Civilization Building! Fun Family Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 10+, 2-4 Players, 60-90 Minute Playtime, Made by Z-Man Games

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.

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

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).

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.

It's a very good board game. The kids love it. But It would help us more if there is a video somewhere to explain the rules before we start it.

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.

This is one of my favorite games!! This is a worker placement game and the mechanic is very simple, you need to gather resorces by placing your workers on different areas of the board and the amount of resources you get is bases on a dice roll. The more workers you use for one resource, the more probability you have of gathering several of such resource. Resources are used to build houses and adquire cards. Once the round ends. You pay food acoording to the number of workers you have. The reason I love this game, is beacuse it is very simple to learn and has many different strategies for making points so depending on your opponents actions you may need to adjust your strategy. Also playing with 4 players is the best experience because it is harder to get the things you want as everybody is trying to get the same things. It can also be played with two players and it becomes a eace for the most points. I certainly recommend it!

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