Overstocked Card Game First Impressions
What happens when you have an Overstocked warehouse of 90’s toys?
You try to dodge the least popular one of course.
Players must stay up to date with the latest 90s toy crazes, filling their warehouse with the most in-demand toys, and avoiding stocking the least popular.
Overstocked Game Play
Players have a hand of cards… Each layer picks one and reveals them simultaneously. The cards are numbered and they are activated in numerical order.
They can be placed in the player’s own warehouse, or in the central part of the board which represents demand.
There are rules for placing cards and they must overlap and cover parts of cards already in that area.
Once everyone has played all of their card the game ends.
You score each toy equal to the number of that toy in your largest contiguous connected area times by the largest contiguous area of that toy in the demand section.
For the toy with the least demand, that is worth minus points.
The player with the most points is the winner.
Theme
Messing around with very similar and not that legally distinct ’90s toys is a good idea. It could have been anything, but making the products fun rather than serious was the right thing to do.
Setup
Dish out some cards, I think that’s it.
Components & Artwork
The cards are OK and the art is decent. The good thing is that each ‘toy’ has its own colour so they can be clearly identified.
Ease of Teaching & Accessibility
It’s very rules light so teaching will be quite easy.
It’s pretty accessible and new players can always pick a card at random and then talk through the options with the other players if they wish.
Overstocked Summary
While playing I immediately thought of Honshu. It does a similar thing but does it better. Overstocked is much lighter and more accessible.
It’s good to work together to increase the value of the least in-demand products to screw over someone.
Balancing the creation of scoring opportunities in your own area and affecting the value of them in the middle of the table is a good problem to have. You have to really maximise every card, you only have 6.
So, it’s OK, worth giving it a try if you get the chance then play Honshu.
Jesta ThaRogue
