You bastard! How dare you flaunt something like that?! Gimme, gimme, gimme!! You lucky dog!

What I really want to get a hold of are some of the miniatures that used to be made for it. I've seen one fellow's layout, he has to scale zeppelins...

You tease. This is my favorite game of all time. I prefer the phase-based movement variant though. Nice list.

I own this one (I'm a big Space 1889 fan). I really have to get motivated to build myself a model of a liftwood flyer.

Nice steampunk artwork, but gameplay is quite abstract.

I agree - I bought this because the theme appealed but the theme doesnt really show through much. Decent game though.

I think it is a really good game. Not perfect but still a good one.

Our group has a had a really good experience with this one. I actually felt like the theme (Mars exploration) came through well. The Steampunk aspect is tacked on, but it almost always is.

The art in this game is great! Have you ever read the comic book of Girl Genius? You can read a lot of it online at:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

Tsk, tsk.

Yup, and to flaunt some more, I used to game with Phil.

I've heard that he's quite a character.

this is amazing game

I don't think this one really fits in the steampunk genre. I don't think there is any steam, and there definitely isn't any punk

Acually it's not that bad. The expectations where high, because of the great components, that's why it was a bit of a disappointment and got rated pretty low.
The rules are very badly organised though.

20,000 Leagues is the OG steampunk! The Nautilus runs on steam power, albeit through a Deus Ex Machina engine that is nuclear in allusion.

There is muscle, mad science, giant squids and one crazy-ass captain bent on punishing the evil-doers of the world.

Steampunk.

I don't think that the steampunkness of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was questioned. It's that this game doesn't really have anything to do with that story or Captain Nemo. From what I gather, it's about building an undersea base and gathering resources from the ocean floor. If were actually about Nemo, I would have bought it already. Hey, that gives me an idea, there really should be a Nemo microbadge.

This game uses "Nautilus" because, much like an Octopus's Garden, it is under the sea. Yeah OK the currency is called Nemos, but really it has nothing to do with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. They have sonar and one of the aims of the game is to improve your various technologies, none of this relishing in the age of steam stuff.

I quite like the game, but it really takes 30-60 minutes longer than it should.

Well, I think this is a pretty good game. You have to balance building bases with sending subs out to find things, and each has an influence on your victory conditions. To me, it has a nice feel and a good theme, and good game play. Maybe it takes a while, but there's a factor of the unknown that may make things go a tad slower than a game where exploration isn't involved. Just a thought. Pretty decent game, really.

Hmm, two days ago I wrote about the Earth Torpedo and this morning I was awoken by a 4.7 scale earthquake. I think maybe I should stop writing about the Earth Torpedo.

Just wanted to add the game's description here:

"California: 1849

Where the mayors of stupidly rich Gold Rush towns can squander the resources of their citizens on pretty much whatever they want.

This month, it's a race to the Moon.

Will it work? Probably not. The real goal is to earn enough votes to become governor. But it seems the best way to impress your pioneering constituents is by doing something grotesquely stupid and dangerous, like blasting them into space.

It's one false step for Mankind, one giant leap for you."

Having played both once, I will say that the main reason to buy this game is right on the cover: Good Lord but the first game is long. The expansion makes it at least -playable-. I didn't expect 4 hours from a CAG the first time I played it, and the expansion helps.

Yes a was very surprised how long the first game took. I don't think people hated it, but everyone was more then ready for it to end. I think the length is the reason we've never played it again. We will play long games, but this one really wasn't worth the length.

This one seemed very unwieldy to me when I read the rules.

Would have worked beter if they hadn't forgotten to put the victory conditions in the rules.... (see the errata).

Easy enough to play, fun if you're into the whole "British Raj on Mars" milieu, but not really a crowd-pleaser for more than a time or two.

The cover of the game and the books show the character FAR more heavily dressed than they are in the actual books. In the books, the characters run around nude with the exception of harnasses used to hold their (many) weapons. That said, the books are about as chaste as you can get. They're all about romantic love and, well, killing everyone who gets between the main character and the woman he loves. Okay, that's a bit simplistic, but the books are plenty of fun. You can safely turn your son loose with them as soon as he able to read them.

I'm a Space 1889 addict too - I own every Space 1889 game ever made. Sadly I've never played this one, but it has fired my imagination to such an extent that I once had a vivid dream in which I was standing on a cliff overlooking a huge ether flyer and airship port. It was incredibly cool.

I have played it. It plays very well and the interaction between the pre-dreadnoughts and the flyers is very interesting. Think slow moving bombing run and you get the idea. Worth getting the PDF and some 1/1000 ships to play it. BTW, it does paly very well as a straight historical game.

I own this one but I've never found anyone to play it with.

I own this one, but it always seemed a bit too vague to me. Not so much a game system as an idea for a game system.

We play this game in more of the pulp genre. The vagarities of the rules actually make it very versatile...anytime from Civil War to late 30's/early 40's. I've played in a pulpish "Raid on Dr. Zombie's Island" campaign and have also been in some Lovecraftian Chthulu-based games, too. It isn't too much of a stretch from pulp to steampunk.

Steam? Absolutely.

Punk? Not at all.

Great game, though.

I'd have to agree with Gary. Steam , punk

This is on the list twice. You must REALLY REALLY want to play this one.

And should do it soon.

This game plays across three boards representing three time periods. You build buildings to form 'domains' which score you points. The clockwork art is quite 'Jules Verne' but overall the game's not very steampunk and the theme is just background for a brain-burner of a game...I love it!

The rules strike me as a bit weird (space friction?!), but I love the look of the minis. I should buy some to use with A Sky Full of Ships (ASFoS) ...

Completely devoid of theme.

Haven't tried this yet, but because of that lack of theme, anticipation towards this one has dropped quite low.

It's not completely devoid of theme, but what little there is is "WWIIpunk" rather than steampunk.

It's fun and it's fast i am about to buy this little diamond

I think GaryP's comment is valid here too..