Ludonaute Colt Express Board Game Ages 10+ 2-6 Players 40 Minutes Playing Time

This is a great game - easy to learn and looks incredible. The cartoony nature of the design will appeal to the whole family, as will the easy to learn nature of it. That said, great fun to play just amongst adults! In my view, a game that benefits from playing with at least 3 players, as it can be easy to work out the other player’s strategy, if just two. A special shout out to the game designers! The 3-D train and carriages are really well designed and take around 30 minutes to put together. The specially designed box, which allows them to be stored in their built state between games, is inspired and a really nice touch. Great stuff!

This game is just unreasonably fun. Well balanced, replayable, but really simple to pick up. My board game-savvy friends were all competent not long into the first playthough. As "the board" is just a train, it's easy to play on a coffee table. There's a little bit of first time setup - some absolutely adorable slot together models for the train and some fun wild west aesthetics. I never thought I'd appreciate a carboard cactus so much. Those details really make you feel like the designers enjoyed making this game. The character sheets look great and hit the wild west archetype. The "programming" game mechanic might sound clunky, but it really sets the feeling of a fast-paced battle where you need to think four moves ahead - and leads to some hilarious or awesome results. Absolutely great for the price, too - if I was paying £40 I'd expect some plastic and character models, but getting this much game and such characterful pieces for about £25 is awesome. Building the trains is fun, but you won't have to do it every time - once you open the box, you convert it to accommodate the locomotive and six carriages in individual bays. The box fits all of the parts, and safely! That's something I like seeing in a game design. I'm definitely going to buy the expansions.

Unique is perhaps the best word describe this game. An amazing board comprised of a three dimensional train which pieces together like a jigsaw. The train's detail is outstanding, the artwork and unique styling of each carriages interior helps set the scene and atmosphere of the game. The mechanics are good fun and different too, its got elements of card management, deduction and tactical play. Some may argue that some characters are better than others, but I suggest that it totally depends on your style of play. This is a great game for families and/or friends, recommended 4+ players but still good fun with 3. The 2 player variant is also great fun!

We bought this for my son for Christmas as he had played it before. I was not enthusiastic about playing it but actually it is great fun. Im an occasional board game player who can't be bothered to learn most games but this was simple, fast-paced and fun. It requires some skill in predicting future outcomes and decisions of others and I love the three dimensional construction of the train, makes it less like a board game and adds a quirkiness to it. This will definitely be a game I'll be playing regularly.

Really excellent, great fun game suitable for the family. Really fun gameplay and very unusual 'board'. Part strategic thinking, part remembering what has happened (and what other people have done), part luck. All in all its an awesome game. We find it is even more fun if one person reads out the action cards when the reveal comes and tells it as a 'story' ... gets people laughing and makes the frustrations of 'memory failures' all the more entertaining. I would highly recommend this game.

This is an absolutely splendid game with just about the right amount of luck involved so that you feel like your planning is influencing the game, but if you lose you can just shrug and curse your misfortune. Fun and fast-paced, and even quite young kids can join in. A little bit cartoon-violent, I suppose, but I guess that's just the wild west for you!

Brilliant conceived and made turn based strategy game. Beautiful board/train and very easy to assemble. Instructions are very complicated and it doesn't explain itself well. This is very useful. (...)

It is a great game, you can find some good, detailed reviews on youtube. The game arrived quickly, product quality is very good. Takes around half an hour to put all elements together, but then you can store them in the box. Just one thing to keep in mind, there is no playmat in the box. It is not a big deal, you don't need a playmat to play a game. It just make the game to look better. It is not a seller fault, as there is not even a word about playmat in description, but many pictures on the internet are showing the train on the mat making the impression it is a part of the game.

Un juegazo!

Excellent board game, we play it as a family (with kids as young as 8) and we really enjoy. It is very unique and almost feels movie-like, where we are the gangsters!

They delivered this all the way to Japan. It arrived in around 10 days and was in perfect condition. The game is quite enjoyable, definitely a good game for board game geeks and non-board game geeks alike.

Great family game

Para comenzar a jugar es necesario armar el tren donde irán los meeples durante el juego, las instrucciones son muy sencillas pero es necesario poner atención en los detalles de los vagones para que muestren el lado interior o exterior según corresponda. Ya armados la caja es lo suficientemente grande para guardar todo el tren sin desensamblar (solamente sería necesario deshacer las piezas de escenario). Ahora bien, en relación propiamente al juego, éste requiere de memoria, ahorita explico el porqué, y su mecánica consiste en programación de acciones; donde cada jugador jugará una carta a una pila común acorde a lo señalado en el escenario en turno. Al jugar todas las cartas para el escenario, éstas se jugarán una por una hasta la última carta, pudiéndose así mover por adentro o por arriba del trén, saquear a los pasajeros, atacar a los otros jugadores o mover al sheriff. Entonces, en que parte entra la memoria, ésta entra durante la fase donde se juegan las cartas. Al estar colocando las cartas en la pila común cada jugador va revelando (o no si pasan por un túnel) que acción llevará a cabo. Por lo que en un vagón con una bolsa de dinero, si 2 jugadores quieren saquear, solamente el primero lo hará con éxito. Por otra parte, los puñetazos arrojan al golpeado a un vagón adyacente y el sheriff hace que los bandidos escapen al techo del vagón, pudiendo frustrar los planes de cualquiera. Es muy divertido ver como un plan maestro puede ser destruido de un sólo golpe y muy satisfactorio cuando todo ocurre acorde al plan. Adicionalmente, cuenta con reglas especiales para 2 jugadores y equipos.