3 PENDULUM

A three hour Eurogame compressed into 60 minutes worth of play sounds like a dream, right? While it’s a bit marmite for some, Pendulum is at very least a worthy experiment, and for many provides a really compact version of living inside a Eurogame machine. Pendulum is a worker placement game where you’re working against the clock, or a series of them, in the form of different length sand timers. Each of these timers controls one area of the board where you can place workers, on the flip of the sand timer you can move your committed worker to get the delicious resources on the other side of the area. It’s less chaotic than it sounds and the fastest pace you’re going to be making choices in a Eurogame.