Think about Scythe as an Eclipse without the ship customization and upkeep phase, simple production (only one type per area, augmented by a max number of production units) and fixed map (with barriers!)... it goes much faster and less downtime. Another game which I like and is a bit similar as a simplified eclipse is Hyperborea. I only read about Game of Thrones, but the comparison would be that in both Eclipse and Game of Thrones you are like in Scythe more or less allowed to negotiate, bribe and trade t a certain extend

I can't talk for Eclipse or Scythe, but we brought the Game of Thrones game and it was pretty terrible. It seemed needlessly complicated and just wasn't that fun.

I hope Scythe isn't like that at all.

It is nothing like Game of Thrones. The person who made the comparison was probably just thinking of how you can choose order tokens to place, but Scythe's choices are simpler and more dynamic, and in other aspects of the game, it is quite different.

I personally loved the Game of Thrones game. There was interesting combat strategies with their mechanic of sorta simultaneous turns, plenty of around the table politicking, the combat cards and bidding were fun. I haven't played that many other war games except shogun and risk so i might just be missing something better but for what its worth I've really enjoyed it.

Interesting, our group has liked it a lot, even with some of its obvious flaws in balance.

I'm happy to make a few compromises to get a board game that make new players more interested in board games overall. After playing GoT, a few of my friends who have never played "adult" board games now regularly play games like Caracassone.

That's too bad. I only played once but had a blast and thought it was fairly straightforward. It's important to have a good group for this one.

I had the same experience with GoT, but it could have been because I was with a gaming group who loved it and I'd never played it before.