Enemy Anemone
The beauty of Enemy Anemone is found in its sleekness. This is what we mean when we call a game “elegant.” There is nothing spare about this design, nothing that requires additional explanation or justification. It produces textured hands, desirable or humdrum tricks that are worth bidding anemones on or ignoring, and does so with such ease that it almost becomes camouflage, a means by which the game could be overlooked for its simplicity.
First of all Dan Thurot is comfortably the finest writer in the whole boardgame sphere. Where most reviews limit themselves to clunkily listing the basic rules, Dan manages to convey the feel of a game and to do so effortlessly and artfully.
And secondly, Enemy Anemone is comfortably my most anticipated game right now. The rules are ridiculously simple and yet just reading them you immediately realise the scope for tactics and mind games.
And thirdly, that artwork.
Just Gorgeous.