Floodgate Games Decorum (Deluxe Edition)

This review has no reflection on the game play itself. Unfortunately, the game received had already been used or opened. It was missing the card dividers & the envelopes were roughed up. I noticed another review with the same issue, wonder if we got the same box! Can’t wait to get a new one to play the game!

In Decorum, everyone gets a card telling them what items of home decor they need in order to make them happy. Maybe you need at least two blue lamps but no red rooms. Maybe someone else needs no green room and no antiques. Youll take turns adding or subtracting things from each of four rooms until everyone can live with the result. If it takes too long, youll have house meetings in which you tell the other house members one of your conditions. Its a puzzle in which players work together to figure out a solution -- and there is always at least one. The game is set up with different puzzles depending on how many players there are and the scenarios start out easy and then increase in difficulty. The only reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5 is that its not a particularly visually appealing game, though its basic color scheme and stripped down look does make it easy to keep track of what is going on in each room. Still I cant help wishing there had been at least something textural to break things up or maybe a more interesting color scheme than the unrealistic (for home decor) green blue red yellow.