I know Carl Chudyk can design a great game. That’s because he has. Many times. The Glory to Rome black box sells for like a bazillion dollars, and not only because it’s out of print. Innovation has fifty editions, all well deserved. And I still regard Impulse and Red7 as overlooked gems. Not because they’re overlooked, really. Because they don’t get the same attention as those first two I mentioned.

So it’s with no small degree of perplexment that I have struggled to understand Aegean Sea. The bones of a Chudyk game are there. You can line them up to make a proper skeleton. But once assembled, there’s no telling how this dinosaur was meant to function.

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