Sapa Inka board game review: With a lot of love for history – Spielpunkt.net

burst games GmbH is, in fact, a sales partner for mini-games, role-playing games, parlor games, trading card games, gaming accessories and much more. With the LuPri brand, formed from the Latin words Ludos Prime (German for good games), the company from Weil im Schönbruch sells brushes as well as its own fun board games, which aim to create a certain appeal for casual and frequent players. We were allowed to test the Sapa Inka card game extensively and were able to speak to managing director Martin Jörg about the game. You can find out how we found the family-friendly Open Drafting game “Made in Germany” in the following review.

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Sapa Inca (translated as “the only Inca”) was the ruler of the Inca Empire. In the game, we take on the role of children of Sapa Incas and fight for the favor of our father to succeed him. To do this, we use the skills of our followers, get important building materials and use them to construct dazzling buildings, which bring us mysterious rewards.

Build an empire

Sapa Inka tour explained quickly. We, in turn, can use one of two options. We can either activate one of the followers shown or use our building materials to build a building in our hands. At the beginning of the round, each end of the game receives three random followers that are facing in front of you and a building card that is not shown to other players.

With the first action option, we can choose one of all the followers that are publicly displayed and perform effects for that person. They each have two effects that either produce building materials, allow the player to paint new buildings or provide the opportunity to trade or build. If we use an opponent’s follower, he may use one of these two effects.

In our second option, we use the collected building materials to build the buildings in our hands. These give us victory points and, if necessary, trophies, as well as bonuses for each round. Trophies are obtained by collecting the most tokens of a type. These either give victory points directly or victory points to a certain number of other symbols. However, opponents can also get the majority of tokens. As soon as this happens, the trophy must be passed to them and you lose the victory points you received as a result. On the other hand, bonuses give either additional building materials at the start of each round, the possibility of exchanging them or allowing players to draw new building cards.

The game continues until the first player reaches 20 victory points. Then the round is played to the end. The person with the most victory points at the end of the round becomes the new Sapa Inka.

Made in Germany

Sapa Inka game material consists of cards and cardboard. Both feel very high quality. The cardboard bookmarks are nice and thick and give you the feeling of really having something in your hand. Unlike many other games that make their cardboard signs look flimsy and therefore unwieldy. The game looks a little outdated with its design, but that doesn’t bother you in any way. On the contrary, all the icons are well laid out and the words are easy to read. It’s also nice if the game instructions contain some background information on what the game is all about and explain what the Sapa Inca really is and that one of his sons inherited it. It is also positive to note that Sapa Inka is produced entirely in Germany, thus the environmental footprint has been kept as small as possible.

Sapa Inka maps look good and are well designed. Since the symbols are nice and large, you always have a good view of your opponent’s cards. Lobri even received praise from Peruvians for the artwork at the Toy Fair in Essen. Photo: Sven Karsten

We found the box, which was too big to be annoying. For what the game has to offer, it could have been a lot smaller. The only reason for the size is the victory point ring. It makes Sapa Inka more visible on the table, but gives us no added value in a playful way. The small rectangular plate would have been more than enough in our opinion. The box takes up an unnecessarily large amount of space on the game shelf and the remaining components fly around a lot in the box.

“The theme fits the game very well”

In conversation with Martin, one of the managing directors of LuPri, we talked about the Victory Point loop. A disc drawn on the arena was historically very suitable for the game, so a board was out of the question. Since the Incas liked to divide things into four, which can already be guessed from the name of the Inca empire “Tawantinsuyu = empire of four parts”, the score 20 also fits the game. Not only does the ring look good, but historically it fits the game perfectly with its five-point haul. Making a ring out of puzzle pieces to keep the box smaller was out of the question for Martin because he had so many bad experiences with it. Saw bits wear out very quickly at the points where they are assembled. So, in the end, the decision was made to use a full episode. This is also nice and thick and will definitely hold up better than four individual pans.

Conclusion

As a family-friendly open-world crafting game, Sapa Inka cuts a great character and is sure to be a hit again and again because it’s so quick to set up and play. However, Sapa Inka doesn’t have great replay appeal, since you’re essentially doing the same thing. You see the options available in the game for you, collect building materials and buildings and start building. Lots of luck. The tactic is to get the most out of the cards.

Once a player reaches 20 points, the round is played to the end. The person with the most points at the end of the round wins the game. Photo: Sven Karsten

However, this does not mean that we did not have fun with Saba Inca. The race for victory points has always been exciting, especially at the end of a match. Prizes greatly affect the points race, as the bonus points generated from them can also be stolen again. For example, it happens that a player deliberately builds simple buildings to attract the majority of tokens of some kind. He was able to stop his opponent from starting the finish line.

In addition, Sapa Inka was incredibly playable with any number of players. The match was played for two in the space of 15 minutes and was a lot of fun. With more players, the games lasted about 45 minutes.

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