The first example that comes to mind is probably
I know Dominion is the "King" of all deck builders and is the most pure and all that but i'll play just about any deck builder over it because Dominion is incredibly dry in theme to me
or like, i'd play and buy viticulture, champions of midgard, everdell, or any number of worker placement games before going to feast for odin (not to dunk on feast for odin its just a good example here)
some of that can be with our group too and knowing what will get played.
all the 18xx games and historical settings aren't for us
If offered i'd definitely check out Empyreal as a train game though just because I like the art and theme, even if its not as good at being about trains or whatever
I went and looked at Feast again and while not actually
ugly (I was thinking of something else) I definitely dont care for the art very much (what i'm assuming are the player boards look like that old NES game, rampart, and whatever this is
the grid part is a big no no in my "what I like about things"
also looking at this
is the kind of thing that would give 3 of our regular group anxiety attacks. It's just SO MUCH stuff, regardless of what it adds to the game at some point it's just too much