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2022 Ranked #8,032

Impression

An economic strategy game has printers place type, move assistants, acquire orders, and develop factories for points. Resetting recovers actions but changes resources, creating a recurring choice between momentum and renewal.

Industry / Manufacturing Variable Player Powers Worker Placement Admin: Upcoming Releases

Players

1-4

Play time

60-120 min

Age

12+

Complexity

4.36/5

Rating

7.34

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Impression is about the history of printing. You manage your own manufacturer to be the most successful in the book printing business.

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Impression is about the history of printing. You manage your own manufacturer to be the most successful in the book printing business. In the action phase, during your turn you choose to: Place a tile from the common supply to the typesetter. You have as many steps with your tradesman as tiles that are within the same row and column where you placed the new tile. You move one of your assistants to an adjacent shop into a chosen room. OR You make a reset. You choose to keep a lead letter or throw it away for resources, then all your assistants move into the shop's secondary room (if possible) and gain actions. Then an orders and contract phase begins where all players can buy 1 order and/or contract. Finally, a production phase comes where you progress with your orders. During your game, you develop your own manufacturer, obtain new abilities, travel and build factories, collect tiles, fulfill orders. At the end of the game, whoever has the most victory points wins. —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–3
Play time
60–120 min
Age
12+
Complexity
4.4/5
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Designers

2
Heged?s Csaba Attila Sz?gyi

Artists

1
Attila Sz?gyi

Publishers

1
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