I was excited to hear about the new Smallworld game: Smallworld Underground, picked it up, and finally had a chance to play it yesterday at my weekly board game night. Here are some of my thoughts:

First, some background:
Smallworld is a game by Days of Wonder in which several races are all vying for territory in a very small area. It plays a little like Risk, but each race comes with a built-in power, and is also paired with a random second power to add game mechanics that make each game different.

Smallworld has a few expansions which simply add more races and powers to the core game, but Smallworld: Underground is a completely separate, standalone game (although you can merge them together somewhat).

I encourage you to find out more about the core Smallworld game, as the rest of my review will probably go into some details that won’t make sense without at least some basic understanding of the game.
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