Dare to sin, get shiny jewellery

Designer: Jerry D’Arcey, Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson | Artist: Chelsea Harper

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

► 36 family cards (nine cards in each of the four families)

► 20 double-sided edict cards

► Four papal bull cards

► Four strongbox cards

► Edict deck cover card

► 20 five-florin gems

► 26 one-florin coins

► Indulgence ring

Restoration Games is doing a good deed, bringing older, forgotten games back into the light. Among them, 1981’s Dragonmaster and 1966’s Coup d’Etat have got a new life as Indulgence, a trick-taking game with an Italian Renaissance theme.

Trick-taking serves as the base for many successful traditional card games for a reason. It is an ingenious fun base mechanic that fits well within games with a variety of complexities, as simple and accessible as hearts to as layered and complex as préférence. Adopting this system as its base, Indulgence is already off to a good start. However, excitingly, it did not stop there and added a breath of modernity to the gameplay with its ‘edict’ mechanic. With one simple deck of cards, the game gets a extra splash of variation and strategy with a push-your-luck mechanic, making Indulgence immediately stand out against similar card games.