Second Chance Review: Concordia - The Game That Punishes You for Playing It Right
There’s a very specific kind of defeat you can experience with Concordia. You place colonists across the Mediterranean. You build houses in cities. You trade resources. The game ends. Someone announces the scores - and you realise you were last, by a distance, and you have no idea why. That’s the classic Concordia first play. Not confusing exactly, but hollow. You followed the rules. You did things. And yet the game felt like it was happening around you rather than to you. ...
