A friend got it to play with his tweens due to it’s long-standing place at the top of numerous “family-friendly” boardgame lists, and I played it worth them for the first 3-5 games, and I have to say it feel a bit flat for us.
It is one of the games with the least player interactions that I’ve ever played. And I’ve played plenty of Euros in which the only interaction is taking the colored cube that the other person wanted.
We found it to be really just simultaneous games of solitaire. You’re competing to see who made the best engine at the end.
That kind of game works well for lots of people – me included! – but I did not feel it was a “family” game at all, which, for me, means a lot of interaction between the players.
