BOARD GAMES – Three Reasons to Play “Terror in Meeple City” (previously called “Rampage”) a Review

Terror in Meeple City is a board game where you play a monster who destroys a city, fights other monsters, and eats people. Very much like the old Midway video game Rampage.

In fact it was called Rampage until it was sued by Midway for causing brand confusion. People actually thought the board game was based on the video game.

That said, if the theme sounds like fun to you, you’re definitely going to like this game.

I bought this for my five year old son as a reward for behaving himself in school. Since then, I’ve played it with him, my seven year old daughter, and my three year old son. Besides the fact that the game is really fun to play, today I’ll be giving you three reasons to play Terror in Meeple City.

Let’s get started.

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Great Components

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If you happened to be walking by a group of people playing Terror in Meeple City, you’d probably stop and stare wondering what game was being played. The game looks like no other game. Not only that but they’ll stop to wonder why you’re destroying the game.

You basically build a little city out “Meeples” (the pawns in the game) and some really chunky board tiles. Once you’re done doing that, you then destroy it with your monster.

The artwork on the board is great and every other component that isn’t a board or a card, from the bystanders to the monsters are made out of wood. This is great considering how much abuse these components take throughout the game.

Simple to Learn

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Terror in Meeple City is very easy to learn. On your turn you can do two of four things. Move, destroy a building, throw a car, or use “super Breath.”

This is a dexterity game so that means you’re actually doing physical things to the board. When you want to try to destroy a building, you literally drop, a monster onto the building to knock it down.

If you want to move, you flick a disk that represents your feet. Where that disk lands is where you’re monster moves.

To throw a car you put the car piece on your monster and flick it off to where you want it to go.

And to use your “super breath,” you put your chin on your monster’s head and blow on what you want to blow on.

You earn points on how much you destroy, how many people you “eat,” how many other monsters you beat up and if you accomplish some of the goals in the special cards you get at the beginning of the game.

The game is very simple to understand.

So simple in fact that, as I’ve said above, I’ve played it with my three year old. That said, we don’t play with the secret cards when I play with him because he can’t read thereby making his “secret card” not so secret if I had to tell him what it did.

But the game plays just as good without it. It’s still fun and we have a good time.

Great Replay Value

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At first when you start playing the game, it seems pretty straight forward. There doesn’t seem to be much to it. I’ve found as I’ve played it more and more that this isn’t exactly the case.

The more you play it the more little nuances you begin to find. Different way to use your actions. Little strategies you start picking up. And the Secret power and objective cards really make a difference in how you play as well.

There’s more to this game than you might originally think. That and the fact that it’s fun and simple gives this game a lot of value.

I highly recommend it.

Looking for Good Monster Fun

I really like this game. When my kids ask me to play, I happily agree to do so. It’s just fun and I don’t have to hold back. It’s a dexterity game. It’s very trick as it is.

Everyone is a pretty much on equal footing when you play. You just have to try to figure out the best way to destroy stuff.

This is a great game for kids or adults. I highly recommend it.