Caesar & Cleopatra
Caesar & Cleopatra (by KOSMOS) is a game I recently picked up at the flea market at the IKEA Moorfleet parking lot in Hamburg. It’s one of the few two-player-only games in our collection. One player takes up the role of Caesar, while the other one ends up with Cleopatra. The subtlety of the game lies in the act that the players don’t battle each other directly, but rather try to gain as much sympathy as possible with the most influential politicians in Rome and Egypt.
It’s very nice to see how the game constantly re-balances itself. Winning one politician for you also means having a harder time gaining the next one for you as well. You can choose the pace of the game yourself by either openly showing which politicians you are interested in or by not revealing your intentions immediately. The game offers enough deceit, bluffing and suspense to keep anyone happy.
Until now the strange thing about this game is that the one who is winning in the end often did not expect this, while the one already celebrating his/her victory at the start faces defeat by a vote or two. This shows that the game is quite tricky, but therefore will stay interesting for a while.
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We have that game too, but we never managed to read through the complete manual. But reading this, it sounds like we should start playing. So maybe next time we see eachother you can explain the game to us