Olympia: Festival of the Gods

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Fun little board game. I really like it. Give it a try.

Really interesting and fun board game! Loved the references to mythology in the game.

First Time playing it, it may look easy to play but it requires real strategy. That means it's hard to master. Goes Hard!

"Olympia: Festival of the Gods" is a not completely hopeless boardgame, there's some depth in the gameplay, which involves careful and strategic placement of coloured tokens, but unfortunately the whole thing was a failure due to weak technical implementation... one must remember they launched this game on the Steam platform where it has to compete with things like Mass Effect and Counter-Strike. If you think that's an unfair comparison, don't blame me, it's a level playing field where the giants rule gamers attention... for good reason. I guess what I mean to say is while this obviously failed just because it compares so badly to the competition, maybe it would have done better as a browser game or on mobile app stores. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being r…