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Are the tabletop rules a pretty faithful adaptation of the computer game? I owned the original game for a while based on some hype from Danny O'Dwyer, but it just did not hook me. I played the game for at least an hour and it never became anything more than "place some tiles". Idk if I was doing something wrong, because the management and tracking aspect of this board game implies that there was more happening behind the scenes with the computer game.