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Oasis


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Minimum age:
(official)
9 years
 
     
Rating:
(average)
4.6 
Year:  
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Family Pastimes

 

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UserRatingMin. AgeAdults TooComment
pikkusiili2000712Yes  
CDRodeffer512Yes While Oasis is an excellent game for adults and older teens, I don't think it's good at all for the under 12 crowd, despite the fact that it looks really great on the table and the theme is well tied to the mechanics. There's a significant memory aspect in keeping track of how many commodities, ovoos, horses and oases each player has, but that memory aspect is the only part of the game that lends itself to play with younger players. The rest is a combination of territory grabbing in a Tron-like way, press-your-luck with helping your opponents by deciding whether or not to turn up another card (ala Medici) and ratio optimization (equal numbers of square tiles or camels coupled with their corresponding rectangular tiles will maximize scoring). It's a great game, but a bit more than most kids are going to want to keep track of.
guantanamo510Yes  
Shade_Jon4  A visually unappealing game for kids, and too abstract to relate to.
Admiral Fisher2  This is an adult game. A really cannot see children enjoying it at all. Maybe teenagers could, though.
Mark    Note: This is the co-op game by Family Pastimes, not the Alan R. Moon/Aaron Weissblum game by Uberplay.