Miami Dice: Gizmos 

I'll not try go come up with 10, but my top four are, Port Royal (German edition), Century: Spice Road, Dominion, and Splendor. In that order.

Decent idea, but I think it would be easier to sort high amounts of cards than marbles.

more like a 'sort of simpler' wingspan

It breaks down in to 2 pieces and fits fine.

I hate games where I have to disassemble something, but gave this a go after I saw it was only 2 pieces. 4 years, and many plays later, it's still in good shape. The cardboard has a wax coating on it that hasn't scratched at all, and the slotted areas still look decent.

It's a little more involved than those.

This seems very much like Splendor, but with less tactical resource management and instead added micro management, which would not appeal to everyone, and seems would make players turns get longer and longer as the game progresses...

It is probably a good thing to see building on 'Splendor' basics, could be like how others built on 'Dominion' deckbuilding. I do wonder if this isn't, at least in part, a conscious marketing decision as CMON's answer to 'Splendor' sales. So, instead of a bought card just expanding your buying power, they can expand other rules, which makes it a deeper puzzle. Also, the end condition, instead of first to 15+ points means last turn, it decouples first to 16 cards then points are counted. And other little differences, possibly to address Splendor bottlenecks, you can opt to go for 1 of top 3 unseen cards from deck, # of cards in rows (appears to be 5, 4, 3), and marbles/gems available to take is a little different. Curious to know if I'd actually be thinking of Splendor during play. In the preview I immediately noticed the points (Zee) later made in the review, like potential (later) choice complexity, and some plain graphics.

I think Zee highlights an important point and I think it is also relevant when considering the downtime. The lead player would end up taking longer turns than the players that are losing which risks reducing the enjoyment of the players that are behind even further. It can get tedious but can easily be the case from halfway through the game onwards, not just near the end. Similar to in Dominion - I’ve been in games of Dominion where each of one player’s turns took longer than the three other players combined, just because they had a such a string of +actions+draws+buy. 3 out of 4 players at the table bored just willing the province pile to be empty. #theydidn’tevenwin

Execept he likes the game, just the micro management is a bear.

Guilherme Melegari unless you actually watch the review and realise it’s nothing like Potion Explosion

Ignorance incoming!

They really aren't that rich. They get a couple hundred thousand from Kickstarter, for people who want to fund them. And then they play Ads to make more revenue. Many of them do this as their job and they buy tons of games as well. It's a business and the way they make money. So your comment is irrelevant. Ads are not only used by broke people. They are used when you want to make money. Grow up and stop complaining.