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Scythe (board game)

Media Title · Board & card games · 17 mentions · 3 subreddits · discussed in r/boardgames, r/suggestmeabook, r/BookRecommendations

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Pros

  • Definitely Scythe. I love it, it’s too complicated for my wife and my other friend doesn’t like it.
  • Scythe by Neal Shusterman has a benevolent AI character, Thunderhead, which governs the Earth and has eliminated death, disease, and unhapiness.
  • I see some Scythe in thar
  • Scythe, by Neal Shusterman
  • I don’t explain how battles work in Scythe. I just say that the cards and military stat are important, and we’ll cover it when the first battle could become a possibility.

Cons

  • It always felt like a point would come in the game where you knew who was going to win long before the game ended and didn't have the tools to interfere much with that person's plans.
  • I hate Scythe. I never felt it had much in the way of "take that" though. I didn't like that it was something more akin to a Eurogame rather than the cool mechs and guys on a board getting stuck in to each other.
  • Beautiful world. Underneath just optimising a path someone already laid out.
  • One of the biggest sins if scythe is that it has hardly any player interaction at all.
  • I personally don't enjoy Scythe or Wingspan or Lisboa. And that's fine, even if they are considered classics!

Sentiment

9 positive (53%) · 2 mixed (12%) · 6 negative (35%)

Trust + time weighted score: +6% · raw score 18%

What redditors said (10 of 17)

It always felt like a point would come in the game where you knew who was going to win long before the game ended and didn't have the tools to interfere much with that person's plans.
negative · u/G****u · r/boardgames · comment · May 12, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I hate Scythe. I never felt it had much in the way of "take that" though. I didn't like that it was something more akin to a Eurogame rather than the cool mechs and guys on a board getting stuck in to each other.
negative · u/G****u · r/boardgames · comment · May 12, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Definitely Scythe. I love it, it’s too complicated for my wife and my other friend doesn’t like it.
positive · u/S****d · r/boardgames · comment · Aug 25, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Scythe by Neal Shusterman has a benevolent AI character, Thunderhead, which governs the Earth and has eliminated death, disease, and unhapiness.
positive · u/L****e · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Aug 21, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I see some Scythe in thar
positive · u/P****u · r/boardgames · comment · Jun 25, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Beautiful world. Underneath just optimising a path someone already laid out.
negative · u/b****_ · r/boardgames · Jun 16, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Scythe, by Neal Shusterman
positive · u/A****4 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Jun 11, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I don’t explain how battles work in Scythe. I just say that the cards and military stat are important, and we’ll cover it when the first battle could become a possibility.
positive · u/n****3 · r/boardgames · comment · Jun 5, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
it's crazy to me that games like Spirit Island, Root, and Scythe that are coming up on 10 years old are in top 50 trending lists like this right now
positive · u/v****x · r/boardgames · comment · May 20, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
We just had our first 5 months ago and my goal is scythe by age 5. 😅
positive · u/Z****6 · r/boardgames · comment · May 20, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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