Nicochan3 wrote:



It's a great deck-building game for 2 to 4 players. You are a pharaoh trying to get sets of jewels, weapons, items in your tomb.

Each player in his turn draws 5 from his deck. He can play each card for its gold value in order to buy more cards from the pyramid of cards that's available to all the players. Or he can spend it for its special power, or he can entomb it (aka put it out of the game, inside of his own tomb).

At the end of the game only the cards inside of the tomb can score points. You get a lot of points for cards of the same set in your tomb (but with different names): n2 points for set cards (where n is the number of cards of the same set/color), 1 point per starting card, and purple cards can score you a fixed amount of points per card (they are not considered to be a "set").

I love it because you want to buy powerful cards, but you'll win only if you entomb VERY often. So there's this tension where you're really trying to thin your deck and keep only the extremely necessary cards. Interaction is high because you can sometimes mess with the opponents deck/discard/tomb, and you buy from the same pyramid, so you can buy/sacrifice cards that'd be too good for your opponents. You also MUST keep up with the pace of the opponents: if they are entombing like crazy, you better do it too or you'll lose 100%

Th4t9uy wrote:

Valley of the Kings is a fun little deck builder with an Ancient Egypt theme. To be honest, I'd almost class it as a filler game as it comes in a little box and the games don't last very long. There's a couple of stand-alone expansions that add can add some variety.