The Shooting Gallery: This stand allows you to reroll one of your dice on your pig board. The Office: This stand allows you to carry and play one more bonus card than normal.The Hall of Mirrors: This stand copies the ability of the stand you set next to it, but you can only have one Hall of Mirrors per type of stand you have in your park.The Fountain: Pay two denarii at the end of your action phase to discard two dirt tokens.The new stands and what they do are as follows: You can decide before playing, you can randomly draw for them, or you can choose either set. How you decide which stands to play with is up to you. These can be mixed and matched with the stands in the base game, but there will always only be five out of the ten available stands actually in the game. New stands mean new things you can do that you weren’t able to do with the base stands. The expansion adds the Stingy Robots I mentioned earlier, five new stands, two new sets of rides, park directors, one new type of dice, and the components for an extra player. Play Dirty This is a modular expansion, meaning you can add all of the expansions into the game at once, add them one at a time, or mix and match for the maximum amount of enjoyment out of the game-it’s all up to you. Still, I am of the opinion that the Stingy Robots are more interesting because they actually do something more than just simply being wild. They do, however, only come into play if you roll for one visitor, allowing you two chances to place a visitor on your ride. For VIRs, they seem a bit on the boring side. They generate the same amount of dirt, they provide the same amount of income, and they don’t count towards any bonuses. My only real critique here is that I do wish the VIRs did a little more than just simply being wild. I didn’t think I cared about how the robots in the game looked until I opened up this expansion and realized these replace the wooden meeples. Not to mention the fact that they actually look like robots. The minis in the expansion are definitely a component upgrade as they are a sort of rubbery type of material as opposed to the wooden meeples in the base game. It’s not a huge expansion and it doesn’t alter the rules at all-it actually adds to them a little bit, but not in a bad way. Just a couple of things I’ll say before digging into the Play Dirty expansion. Again, these robots are a color of their own and do not count towards any bonuses. The good news is that they generate no dirt. The bad news is that they only provide you with two income rather than the three you get from the regular robots. If you pull one of these grey robots, it is considered wild, but there are a couple of catches-a sort of good news bad news situation. If you are attracting visitors to your park, but all the robots of your choice of color are gone, you can put one of the Stingy Robots in the bag in its place. These robots do not come in the Play Dirty expansion like the Stingy Robots do. You will still receive the normal three income for them, and they will still generate one dirt, but they do not count towards any bonuses-they are their own color and not the color of your ride or the other visitors in your park. If you happen to pull the golden robot out of the bag, he goes onto the ride of your choice-golden robots are wild. When you roll to attract a visitor, if you only roll for one visitor, you take one of your choice of color plus one of the golden robots, place them in the bag as normal, and pull two robots. Go ahead and set the bag up as you would for a normal game and set these two colors aside. These two new colors get separated out and do not work the same as the normal colored robots. The golden robots are VIRs (Very Important Robots), and the grey robots are Stingy Robots. They do come in each color in order for you to replace the original wooden meeples, but with two additional colors. These do not look the same as the original wooden meeples, but they actually resemble robots. Robots This expansion doesn’t do a whole lot to change the game, but it does add some pretty neat looking robot minis. So let’s visit those hard working robots once more and see what else we can do to make their one week off out of the year a bit more interesting. In this review, I’ll have a look at both of the expansions for IELLO’s Steam Park. Price : Robots (Amazon $16.49), Play Dirty (Amazon $27.99) Gear up friends, it’s time to head back to the peaceful town of Roboburg. Designer : Federico Latini, Lorenzo Silva
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