Mages Expansion: The Witcher: Old World

Overall a great game, a bit hard to start with and the instructions are generally complicated, I’m recommending to watch some videos of how people are playing before starting. Once you know how to play, it is amazing game and had a lot of fun playing it, you just want to explore this game more and more. Highly recommended

TLDR: I returned it - a shame because I was genuinely so excited to play, but quickly became overwhelmed by the lack of clarity and online resources regarding the rules. I was so excited to receive the board game as I’m a huge fan of the video games and casual watcher to the Netflix series. The quality of the board game and all the bits along with it is fantastic, feels sturdy and luxurious, the characters and illustrations are really well designed and I like the customisable names. However, once I had everything out of the box, I read through the (extensive) rule book but was still not clear how to actually play the game. I think the rule book does a poor job of explaining how to play, and some of the icons on the board itself aren’t explained anywhere, so I have no idea what they mean. I ended up resorting to watching hours of playthroughs by other people on YouTube, but again, the edition was not the same as this one so the icons had slight differences which were still not explained. I figured it would be really difficult to play since the rules, guidelines and icons weren’t explained, and I doubted anyone would sit down to watch hours of other people play the game online just to play with me so I returned the item reluctantly.