My main issue with heavier euro games specifically is that they seem generally to be complexity for complexity ' s sake . I don ' t mind a complex game . . Instead of just getting wood you have to get fish which you convert to smoked fish which you trade for wood . I ' m not a fan of games which inflate the time and overhead of how you play for no reason . I want that complexity to be there for a reason . I also generally don ' t find what i find to be the biggest genres of heavy euro interesting . Economics is fine but not fun for me , and resource gathering and converting is fine when you are getting resources and using them Belfort , scoville , Lords of waterdeep but when you add like three extra steps for no reason I ' m not interested . Those steps generally aren ' t interesting at all . I wonder if you ' ve ever played either Age of Steam or Steam . The rules are dirtsimple and easy to explain I can explain it in under 10 minutes and it ' s really a very pure game especially the former as there is nothing to take away . Perhaps it may be too long or too mean but there ' s only one form of money , no conversions , the economics part is really just the decision of where to build your network and whether it ' ll pay off or not , especially if you need to take out more loans , and rulessimple .