Dawn of Ulos is seriously smart. Designed by Jason Lentz, and ostensibly set in the same universe as Roll Player and Cartographers, its intelligence is less a question of innovation than one of tactical inspiration. By drawing from classics such as Sid Sackson’s Acquire and Reiner Knizia’s Tigris & Euphrates, but still applying his own modern spin, Lentz has created one of the sharpest stock-profiling games I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing.

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