Steven Solomon
United States
Monterey
California
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I bought Infernal Contraption last summer and have now had a chance to play it twice. These are my impressions after playing twice and observing my relatives play:
I like the cards a lot--the illustrations are very clever. The good thing is that there are lots of options for designing machines that mess with your opponents. However, largely thanks to that variety, I find it a bit difficult to keep track of what exactly my opponents' machines do, and unless you can recognize the cards from all the way across the table, staring at their machines won't help you. This makes it hard to fine-tune one's strategy.
My niece's husband, Jim, said he liked the game, but wasn't really able to formulate a strategy, either. I told him frankly that my only strategy is to find Contraption cards that steal cards from other players and then add Upgrades that double their effects. Last summer, my grand-nephew assembled a horribly effective machine that doubled a Contraption twice. He was stealing 8 cards from another player every round. One thing I learned this time is that it's far better to have Contraptions that add cards to your Parts Pile than to your hand.
I have yet to win a game of Infernal Contraption. This time, I narrowly lost to Jim after we eliminated my niece Vickie and her daughter Kristen. My family is about evenly split on whether this game is fun or not. I like the concept, but I find the details a bit hard to keep track of. But I would play again, definitely.
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Richard Irving
United States
Salinas
California
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Too verbose!!!
 
I was expecting something like, "Mechanical" or "Ingeniously put together"
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funnier in person
United States
Portland
Oregon
At GameStorm
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I too thought that this would be a one word joke review, Instead its a well written paragraph summing up the feel of the game. I want a refund!
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