Inheritors Review

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We review Inheritors, small box card game published by Northstar Games, In Inheritors, players are playing cards into runs to score the most points.

The small card game space is a corner of the board gaming world that will never fully go away. Solo games are more popular than ever, sure, and expansive campaign games dominate crowdfunding platforms, but tiny, travelable card games? Never going out of style.

That’s why I was excited to have snagged a copy of Inheritors, a ladder-climbing card game with some extra stuff for 2-4 players. It’s designed by Jeffrey CCH and Kenneth YWN and, and published by NorthStar Games.

Turns in Inheritors will see players doing one of five basic actions. The first involves adding a card to one of the five Influence sections (denoted by unique colors) in front of them. These cards need to be played in order from 1 to 6 and players are not permitted to skip numbers. Players can also take cards from the market in two different ways—discarding 1 card to draw 2 or discarding 1 card to take an entire available row Rummy-style. Players can also discard three cards of the same color to grab one of the game’s Quest cards, which are essentially personal scoring opportunities. Players can also play one of their Advocate cards. These cards have game-breaking powers and manipulate either the market or the players’ tableaus.

Creating these runs of cards will eventually grant you access to one of the game’s Clan cards. These are obtained when a player gets to the third level in a particular Influence. These Clan cards offer powerful abilities that will stay with the player for the rest of the game. Similarly, the game has Honors that players are attempting to reach. These vary—hitting a certain Influence threshold, for instance—and are first come, first serve.

The game will end when all of the Quests and Honors are claimed or if the draw deck is empty. Whoever has the most points based on Influence levels, Quests, Honors, and a few scoring