Bargain Quest

BGG Rank: 1748

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: 6+, Best: 6

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.01 / 5

Mechanisms: Auction / Bidding, Closed Drafting, Hand Management, Open Drafting, Take That

Category: Card Game, Fantasy

Family: Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Misc: LongPack Games, Players: Games with expansions that add solo play

Designer: Jonathan Ying

Artist: Victoria Ying

Publisher: (Self-Published), Banana Games, Origames, Renegade Game Studios

Category: Economic

Bargain Quest is a game of adventure and capitalism for 2-6 players. Players will take the role of shopkeepers in an adventuring town plagued by monsters. Players must draft items and then secretly choose which items to place in their windows to attract wealthy heroes to their shops. Once all heroes have been equipped, they venture out to battle against monstrous threats, earning money and prestige for the shop they represent. Throughout the game players will encounter new heroes and monsters while upgrading their shops and hiring employees. Once the third monster is defeated the player who has earned the most gold and prestige is the winner.

Average Playing Time	1-2 hours
Best Player Count	4 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Opener/Closer
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

It's sink or swim in Sunk Costs, the latest expansion for Bargain Quest that brings the game to the Seven Seas! This expansion introduces a variety of nautical heroes, monsters, and items for your shops, as well as the brand new "supply ships" game mode. Try not to go overboard! —description from the publisher

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

Bargain Quest: 8-Bit Theater adds new cards to the Bargain Quest base game featuring the iconic heroes and items from the classic webcomic 8-Bit Theater by Brian Clevinger!

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

Bargain Quest: Table Titans adds new cards to the Bargain Quest base game featuring characters from the hit webcomic series Table Titans!

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

Bargain Quest: Acquisitions Incorporated contains new cards for the Bargain Quest base game featuring characters and items from Penny Arcade's amazing world of Acquisitions Incorporated!

Players: 2 - 8, Recommended: 8+, Best: 4

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

The Black Market Expansion brings Bargain Quest to the seedy criminal underworld. With new heroes like the Shaman, and the Bravo, along with cunning employees like the Loan Shark and the Henchman. It's a dangerous town, and you'll have to use all of your cunning and wits if you mean to make a profit out here! Most importantly however, this expansion introduces a new Upgrade to Bargain Quest: The Black Market Upgrade This Upgrade functions similarly like the Display and Storage Upgrades in the original game, however the cost to gain this upgrade is not coins, but *stars* which means you'll need to spend your hard earned reputation before you'll be able to make the connections you'll need to access the Black Market Deck! During the Supply Step, a player with the Black Market Upgrade gains cards from the Black Market Deck, which contains a variety of strange and powerful artifacts! The Black Market can be a bit unpredictable. Its items range from the incredibly powerful, to the expensive, but useless, to the outright weird. You'll want to keep the best equipment you find for yourself, and leave your opponents with less favorable options. Play your cards right and you'll be the next Capitalist Kingpin. —description from the publisher

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

Bargain Quest: Chaotic Goods introduces thirteen new heroes and nine new employees to Bargain Quest, with you replacing all the duplicate heroes from the base game when you use this expansion.

Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 45 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5

Brick & Mortar is an expansion for Bargain Quest that lets the shopkeepers engage in direct competition during special Shopping Events! It's time to wage war against your rivals alongside new heroes, items, and employees in the thrilling Retail Rumble game mode! Whether it's a Trebuchet Launch Party or the dreaded Blackguard Friday, the only monster in this mercenary marketplace is YOU. Contents Summary: 22 Item Cards 12 Shopping Event Cards 10 Heroes 9 Employee Cards 2 Shop Boards 1 Rulebook -description from publisher's website

rahdo rated: N/A/10

would have liked to see something more interesting done with 2p drafting, plus it is a little swingy...

JohnnySchmaser rated: N/A/10

Kickstarter project. Beware of biased reviews and ratings from backers.

JennekeGames rated: N/A/10

Kickstarter. Received 1/2018.

Randy K rated: N/A/10

Kickstarter. Shipping Nov 2017.

deathbystrawberry rated: N/A/10

Card drafting. Pick and pass decks.

keekohmygod rated: N/A/10

Mayday Standard

rle63 rated: N/A/10

Jan 2018 from KS not yet played

Redbore rated: N/A/10

Box SideC

chlaforce rated: N/A/10

card drafting

Peerchen rated: N/A/10

Unsure after one play: I like the story this game is telling and I like the variety and I especially like the conflict between attracting customers, and equipping them, but they have to improve by your cards, and they have to afford them. Thats a neat and funny! Im note sure however, if the equipment puzzle fits to the random adventure card. I mean I do think they are funny and I understand the necessity for a luck element, but some cards are very swingy and Im not sure this fits to the puzzling before.

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