DiamonDancerSD's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:5
- Helpful Votes:3
- Reviews Submitted:2
- First Review:July 2, 2017
- Most Recent Review:October 24, 2017
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DiamonDancerSD's Review History
There is a wonderful tale within you. 7 Grand Steps builds a story of your ancestors and how you came to be.
Overall rating
5
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3 of 3 found this review helpful
INNOVATIVE FORMAT AND CEREBRALLY CHALLENGING GAME OF LIFE, DEATH, and FATE!
PostedOctober 24, 2017
DiamonDancerSD
fromSan Diego, California
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Puzzle, Strategy
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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5
7 Grand Steps is a challenging game of strategic management. Final Destination meets the game Risk meets the game Life! You choose your Dynasty's destiny as you navigate the perils of famine, war, political and social entanglements, and the acquisition of wealth. Your choices will either lead your family to innovative discoveries, heroic acclaim, and rising social status or cause your family's demise in poverty, intrigue, or war. Only careful management will allow your family to thrive generation after generation. But beware of the fickleness of Fate!
Played on a unique board that revolves toward a pit of hungry crocodiles to simulate the passing of time, your characters must successfully interact with helpful allies, envious enemies, acquiring tokens of skill and knowledge and spend those tokens to socially advance your family and successfully raise the next generation. Collecting your currency of skills, social status, and acclaim requires careful social strategy and wise decisions to situations posed by the Owl of Fate. Be sure to pay attention to clues given about your characters' personality otherwise, Fate and her consequences can be very cruel.
Additionally, if managing the fate of your immediate family is not challenging enough, you can choose to simultaneously manage the finances of your city, the size and health of the army, the conditions of your defenses, and choice of war and peace in the kingdom as well. Your decisions on a global scale will then ultimately affect your family's fate. However, you can play the game through to the end without this added dimension.
7 Grand Steps gives you many options and you choose the complexity of play. Whether you choose to manage your world globally or just the fate of your immediate family, successfully raise descendants before the trials of ancient life or old age end the current generation in order to continue to the next Grand Step!
I can play this game over and over! But I DO hope the sequel will eventually be released!!!
I recommend this game!
Elements
Embark on a scientific adventure using your matching skills to distill and combine the essences of mythic elements.
Overall rating
5
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FABULOUS BRAINTEASER
PostedJuly 2, 2017
DiamonDancerSD
fromSan Diego, California
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Card & Board, Hidden Object, Puzzle, Strategy, Word
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
5
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This game blows away Match-3's! Use strategy and logic to complete each layout in one screen to achieve the Expert seal. The game easy to learn and becomes more challenging as each element is added. The degree of challenge escalates nicely and is never completely frustrating! The story premise is nice and the graphics are pleasing, It is not often I find a game I want to play endlessly. I hope there is a sequel!
I recommend this game!