Adventure Mart Review with Tom Vasel

Another Ultima Online player. I was so proud when I finally got one of those houses with a porch so I could place my vendors and sell my goods to other players. Ah the memories.

I picked this up on sale, and we've enjoyed it so far. There's a lot of decisions to make in shaping your deck and shop which can mitigate the luck somewhat, but yes, sometimes a bad draw or card flip can really mess your game up. The bidding for heroes is neat and the art is just charming. Similar to Bargain Quest in weight and theme.

The second I saw that adventures were showing up at random and wanting different things of which you may or may not have, I knew this game had a problematic design.

Bargain Quest clone?

"I like everything about it except the game."

The game has capitalism. The rich get richer. Haves get to have more.

I don’t get this. There are only a few different things the adventurers want to buy. It’s not that hard to prepare your hand so you’re ready to sell most things to most people?

I always appreciate an honest word on bad or at least not-so-good designs. Thanks! The art style of the game really intrigued me but it also seems to have the amount of randomness that can spoil the entire thing. Too bad :/

I question if doing a little homebrewing to this game may make it better. Something like instead of only holding onto one stock card if your in last place hold onto 3 and hold onto 2 if your in second. It could also then better work to other capitalist ideals that of course the cheap store buys in bulk and has extra product to push where as the high end stores need to make sure what they sell turns a profit.

I loved it. It's cute, easy to play, little bit of strategy, fun to play, I had loads of fun on every game.