Being a slightly tweaked version of a game that is close to a top 1, board game of all time, I was expecting Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle to be a pretty good game. While it is not a terrible game, I have to say that I found it to be underwhelming.
I have never been a huge fan of trick taking games but this game made me wonder why The Great Dalmuti is so loved. The game honestly just felt like another extremely generic card game. Basically one player plays cards of the same number and all of the other players have to play the same quantity of cards of a lower number.
That is basically all there is to the game. Outside of keeping sets of the same number together, I think it is usually pretty obvious what cards you should play at a given time. Without much strategy, the game relies quite a bit on luck. Basically when you are dealt cards you want one of two things with the cards you are dealt.
Getting a lot of low cards makes it easy to win hands since it is hard for other players to play lower cards. What might be even better though is to get dealt a lot of the exact same card even if it is a higher card. This might be better since if for example you get six cards of the same number you can get rid of all six cards right away and it will be hard for other players to match so you likely will win the trick as well.
The absolute worst hand to be dealt though has to be to get a lot of high number cards without getting many cards of the same number. I can see that the mechanics are in place so players at the bottom can climb their way up to the top while the players at the top can fall to the bottom. It adds unnecessary complexity to the game for new players. The roles also make the game even more dependent on luck. Players stuck at the bottom have a significantly smaller chance of winning the game due to the top two players getting an unfair advantage.
The basic gameplay of both games are exactly the same. You play cards in sets trying to be the first player to get rid of all of your cards. The only two differences between the two games seem to be the number of cards in the game and the inclusion of special cards. Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle has 20 less cards than The Great Dalmuti which comes from eliminating the eleven and twelve cards from the game.
Despite having never played The Great Dalmuti I believe it is probably a better game than Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle unless you plan on playing with fewer players or really like Dilbert. As far as the components are concerned, you basically get what you expect out of the game. You get typical playing cards with a Dilbert theme. While I have mostly complained about Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle, it is not a terrible game. It is just a very average card game and I have played much better card games.
Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle has a little strategy but relies more on the cards that are dealt to you than any choice you make in the game. As far as a recommendation, I can only recommend Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle if you like The Great Dalmuti style trick taking games and really like Dilbert. Oh my, what a harsh review! The faster you get rid of your cards, the higher you'll scramble up the corporate ladders. Corporate Shuffle provides round after round of fun for cubicle dwellers, families, and anyone perplexed by the follies of the modern workplace.
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