A slow-paced but relaxing board game elevated by beautiful visuals - Spiritle Quick Review
PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?
Despite Spiritle being a free-to-play game, I’m going to say pass on this one. The artwork is lovely and the simple rules allow for some neat little tweaks for each character, but the pacing is so slow that I found myself getting frustrated much more than I was having fun. At its core, Spiritle is about finding matching tiles on a randomly generated gameboard while using those matches to power attacks on other players, ultimately being the last player standing. I often had to wait as three other players looked for matches, made their attacks, and fussed over their decisions, just so I could take a stab at matching a pair of tiles—only to guess incorrectly and have to wait my turn again. It’s a bit of a drag.