The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they. I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth. For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play
There are certain undeniable truths in this world. At one point, you will have tried on a hat, and thought you looked amazing in it, but balked at the thought of buying the hat as your couldn't fully justify the occasions where you would wear such an item. Secondly, you will at some point have played a civilisation game and used it as a way to peacefully pass the time, as you laid waste to your enemies and dragged your empire towards the modern world. Most Civilisation games I have played seem to be extreme bedfellows with the original solo playing Sid Meier videogame. I wonder if that is because as you grow as a nation then the mere act of housekeeping your population and development can take a growing amount of time. Downtime itself can become something that kills the chance of playing well with others, and it's one of the reason that I ended up walking away from a game of Through The Ages, as it was apparent that this was going to be something that required hours to reach