Viewpoint Card Game

Viewpoint in a non-collectible card game produced by the Australian game design company 93 Made Games. The game contents consist of a deck of 70 cards, each illustrated in a ‘70s/‘80s retro art style, and a rule sheet, attractively packaged in a small black cardboard box. Most of what you need to know is printed on the cards themselves and makes picking up and getting into the game very easy. The use of icons on the cards, representing different aspects of the game (e.g. the discard pile, the play area and your hand of cards), makes the game even easier to understand.

The game is designed for 2 to 6 players of ages 7 and up. Games can take as little as 5 minutes or as long as 30 minutes to play - depending on the experience of players and the number of players in each game.

The objective of the game is to be the first player with 100 points down on the table, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. Players have cards that can steal cards you have tabled or send them to the discard pile. So you need to be able to judge the best time to put cards on the table and how to defend your cards once they are down.

Game-play is highly interactive and the base rules are simple to follow to make it accessible to casual and non-gamers as well as dedicated gamers. At the start of play, each person is dealt a hand of five cards. These cards each have values clearly printed on them, ranging from negative amounts to a maximum of 20 points. They also have actions printed on them, along with a graphic (which features some pun on vision such as ‘wink’ or ‘blind spot’). The action associated with an individual card is usually executed as you attempt to put the card face up into your play area (known as your Field of View). There are a few cards (such as Spectacles) that allow you to play the card as a reaction to other players trying to affect your cards.