Renegade Game Studios: G.I. Joe Deck Building Game - Silent Interlude Expansion - 2 New Missions A Traitor Within & Snake Eyes, Ages 14+, 1-4 Players

Five games in and I lost them all, very badly. There are serious SERIOUS issues with this game, and I've played dozens of deckbuilders. This one is among the worst. Very poorly designed with respect to difficulty. It's the hardest, and most unreasonable, deckbuilder in existence, bar none. No difficulty adjustments to make the game easier are offered, aside from the fact that you could include less story missions per Act, but why would you want a shortened narrative experience? Crazy.Between the end of turn, start of turn, and end of round effects on everything, it's all against you. Couple that with very random dice and you have a recipe for sheer disaster. Now don't get me wrong...I normally love dice in my games, but in this one, they are a very bad addition because of the overall difficulty of the game. Things tend to spiral totally out of control as you progress through the acts of the mission, and incorporating dice just makes an already ridiculous hard game that much more ridiculously hard.I don't recommend this one, folks. Not by a long shot. The poorly written rulebook is just the tip of the iceberg. Inappropriately playtested for sure.