Awards and Critical Reception
In his essay on the game, British author and game designer Marc Gascoigne stated that Once Upon a Time is "one of the best ways ever found to grab a non-gamer by their imagination and fling them into our world".
Once Upon a Time was named to Games magazine's Best Family Card Game section in the 1997 Games 100 list.
In 1999 Pyramid magazine named Once Upon a Time as one of The Millennium's Best Card Games and also as one of The Millennium's Most Underrated Games. Editor Scott Haring stated "the game's just as good for kids as it is for adults." Commenting on the second edition, reviewer Derek Pearcy said the game "is a brilliant example of what we should be getting in this new game market" and "not only is this game easy to learn, not only is it fast, fun, and an Idea Whose Time Has Come, but ... girls think it rocks" commenting upon "the occasional insulting lip-service to their female readership."
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