Victorian Masterminds
Get your moustaches twirling – the world’s not gonna destroy itself
Designer: Antoine Bauza, Eric M. Lang | Artist: Davide Tosello
Whenever you see the CMON logo on a box, you can be sure it’s going to have high production value. But sometimes you can’t help but wonder if a game really, honestly requires all that table space and moulded plastic.
On the surface, Victorian Masterminds looks like a big game. It has a big theme: competing steampunk supervillains try to build their own doomsday machines and dominate the globe. It comes from a pair of big designers, namely Blood Rage creator Eric M. Lang and the brain behind 7 Wonders, Antoine Bauza. And it presents an impressive tabletop spread, with chunky, cartoony miniatures representing buildings (which earn points when captured) and scientists (who can be spent to shortcut to certain achievements along the way).