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2014
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Description
Akrotiri places you in the role of an explorer in Classical Greek times, combing the then-uncharted Aegean sea for lost Minoan temples that have long ago fallen into ruin. You've not only heard of these temples hidden around the island of Thera, but you actually have access to the secret maps that tell you of their hidden locations! Two mountains to the north? A volcano to the west? This *must* be the spot...
But running an expedition can be costly. In order to fund your voyages into the unknown and excavate the ancient temples, you will have to first ship resources found on surrounding islands back to the resource-poor island of Thera.
In Akrotiri — which combines tile placement, hand management, and pick-up and delivery — players place land tiles in order to make the board match the maps that they have in hand. Players excavate temples; the ones that are harder to find and the ones further away from Thera are worth more towards victory, but the secret goal cards keep everyone guessing who the victor is until the end! May the gods forever bless you with favorable winds!
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Meeple University Analysis at 7:50 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- time travel tempo control adds strategic depth
- maximize the combo on your player board
Cons
- ignoring time travel loses six to ten points on the time travel track
Thematic elements
- time travel tempo control
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tableau Building — goal is to build up a combo on your player board across eras and score points with minimal interference
- Time Track — time travel is used to borrow and pay back resources; tempo is driven by managing the time travel track
- time travel track — time travel is used to borrow and pay back resources; tempo is driven by managing the time travel track
- Worker Placement — worker placement is a tool to access actions; the aim is to maximize a combo and keep running it era to era
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Quotes (from this video)
- the good news is there's nothing which can knock you out of the game at the beginning
- scouting almost every round because then you lose a card every round it is injured and it goes to the hospital
- you can get a couple of your patrons eaten and usually turn out fine
- the earlier you build those bigger dinosaurs the more points they're going to get you
- attraction sets are worth four points at the end of the game
- time travel is tempo the game is pure tempo control
- economy is all about being in control of time of your tempo
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kovray Review at 8:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever design
- Easy to teach
- Tiles feel good
- Good art
- Tense gameplay
- Interactive board manipulation
- Surprising strategy
- Never a dull moment
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- technology vs. nature / industrialization
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — The way that you can kind of like manipulate that board into even like forcing your opponents to do specific things or forcing them not to do those things.
- Area Control — Trying to create clumps of your category so either sea creatures or colors by the end of the game.
- Movement — You move a tile on the board and then place one of the six styles that are available to you onto the board.
- Tile Placement — It's a tile placement game where you're either the sea creatures or colors.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's very asymmetrical the miniatures in this is stunning the art in this is stunning it's a very clever game
- it's so clever it's so thematic
- the games tend to be like super close down to the last play
- i love that it's gonna be cross-compatible because it's just it's such a like it's a great experience to kind of elevate to four players
- it is one of my favorite two-player games
- the waze design is just extremely skillfully it's one of the most elegant and beautiful games in the two-player variety
- i think the theme really shines out too because basically it's like technology versus nature industrialization yeah
- i think one of the most underrated two-player games in my opinion
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kovray Discussion at 13:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Game of exploration and discovery.
- Players have individual player sheets with hidden temples to locate.
- Map cards provide requirements for temple locations.
- Strategic tile placement and resource management.
- Race to find temples and collect victory points.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- exploration and discovery
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pick-Up and Deliver — Players can gain resources and trade them for coins to buy more maps.
- Resource Management — Players collect and use resources to fulfill objectives.
- Set Collection — Players aim to collect specific sets of resources to locate temples.
- Tile Placement — Players draw and place tiles on a central board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is Star Realms from Wise Wizard Games in this game you're going to be building your deck up so that you can put you your opponent's ships and bases so that their score goes down to zero the first person to do that wins it's a lot of fun
- it's definitely a must-have for star realms lovers like i am
- the app is amazing definitely need to check it out on steam
- if you are a fan of two-player head-to-head card games i cannot suggest summoner wars enough
- these are this is probably the best part of the game here look at these awesome chips
- it's like chess but it's much easier to learn
- Watergate is definitely a strictly two-player game
- really just it's a really fun outside game
- it is essentially a game where you are trying to play poker hands to win area control over these different stone tablets out in front of you
- it's a good stress
- this is a good one and we basically played the expansion for it and it just made the game even better
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kovray Review at 37:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- deep, elegant set-collection and route-planning
- clever scoring chains with modular temple objectives
Cons
- complexity can be intimidating
- endgame timing can be predictable
Thematic elements
- top placement, resource management, temple scoring
- island of Thera exploration and temple construction
- map-driven exploration with corridor/line scoring dynamics
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — Two actions per turn with strategic resource and tile choices.
- scaling objectives and temple placement — Temple objectives scale in difficulty and reward longer-term planning.
- Tile Placement — Place tiles and use corridors to extend maps and score templatized points.
- tile/board placement with corridors — Place tiles and use corridors to extend maps and score templatized points.
- top placement and resource management — Two actions per turn with strategic resource and tile choices.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a very interesting game I really appreciated the way that the card pairing works I think it's really cool
- Production in this game is super cool there's some surprises in the box
- it's unlike any board game I've played
- the more you put into this game the more you get out of it
- the battle system is so much fun and very smooth
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Watch It Played Top 10 List at 3:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Looks really cool
- Challenging puzzle element
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Archeology, excavation
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Combines tile placement, hand management and pickup and delivery.
- Pickup and delivery — Combines tile placement, hand management and pickup and delivery.
- Tile Placement — Players excavate temples and attempt to place land tiles in order to make the board match the maps that they have in hand.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's this really big puzzle that only gets more complicated as it goes so it just looks so cool
- I am all in on the gardening themed rolling right genre and and this um I mean pencil first games has got a series of games are kind of in this gardening and I would say almost like relaxing and pleasant kind of theming of their games
- The artwork is delicious looks like it's a gardener who's been sketching their Garden of whilst they've been sat in it you know and it's just it's very nice in it
- If this game weren't so purple it is so purple really you are underestimating how purple it is it's profoundly purple.
- So much of the scoring is hidden like you're having a certain amount of points out on the board but the rest of the points like half the points in the game is all in your hands right and you never know who's gonna win and that sounds really exciting to me.
- This thing is still going as in its original Incarnation the original designer ever this is still happening it's still crazy popular it has true staying power power.
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Chairman of the Board Other at 10:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Described as a classic card area control game.
- card-driven — Described as a classic card area control game.
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Getting Games Playthrough at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clear explanation of rules through demonstration
- Shows strategic options and decision points
Cons
- Video is lengthy and can be complex for new players
- Some rule interactions are nuanced and described progressively
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- aerodrome — card that allows playing strength three or less into non-matching theaters while its own theater is active
- Ambush — flip a battle card in any theater
- Blockade — if a battle card is played into an adjacent theater that already has three or more cards, that card is discarded with no effect
- Combat: Blind Bet — flip a battle card in any theater
- containment — affects face-down cards and can force discard of certain cards or limit flipping/placement depending on its state
- cover fire — an ongoing effect that makes all battle cards covered by this card have a strength of four; can be stacked to strengthen theaters
- Deck Manipulation — look at the top card of the deck and place it face down into an adjacent theater; drawing mechanic
- deploy — play a card into a theater that matches the card's color; the card's strength contributes to that theater
- escalation — makes all face-down cards worth four strength instead of two
- Improvise — place any card from hand face down into any theater; adds two strength; no card effects activate
- maneuver — flip a battle card in an adjacent theater; can enable flipping or strategic repositioning
- Reclaim as Action — return one of your face-down battle cards to your hand and gain an immediate extra turn
- Redeploy — return one of your face-down battle cards to your hand and gain an immediate extra turn
- reinforce — look at the top card of the deck and place it face down into an adjacent theater; drawing mechanic
- Transport — move a battle card into a different theater
- withdraw — surrender the round; the opponent wins the round and victory points are awarded based on the number of cards left in hand
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Quotes (from this video)
- the goal of the game is to get 12 victory points before your opponent
- you gain these victory points by winning rounds
- the game will end at the end of a round where any player has 12 or more victory points and that player will be the winner
- ties in the theaters are broken by the first player who will break the tie in their favor
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Allies or Enemies Top List at 3:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- highly compact for a war game
- engaging multi-theater play with a very small card footprint
Cons
- abstracted combat may not appeal to all
Thematic elements
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- this time on allies or enemies we are counting down our top 10 small box games for two players
- these are great games at low cost that don't take up too much room
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Unknown Channel Discussion at 6:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Tactical tension with a clear theater-dominance victory condition.
- Appealing visual design and interaction.
Cons
- Rules can be dense for the casual crowd.
Thematic elements
- Theatrical war settings with color-matching constraints.
- Military theaters of war themed across land and sea.
- Match-based tactical play, tactical shifts per theater.
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Color-matching play in theaters — Only cards matching the theater color can be played there.
- Matching — Only cards matching the theater color can be played there.
- Wild cards with flipped play — Most cards can be flipped to act as wilds with power value.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Cardboard, my board game social platform of sorts
- I would absolutely love for you to see what your rap looks like
- Jump on Cardboard right this second and get your games connected
- This is my November. I played a lot of really good games
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Going Analog Interview at 0:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- thematic cohesion with island exploration
- engaging spatial placement
Cons
- rules density can be heavy for new players
Thematic elements
- strategic island building and resource management
- island civilization and exploration in the Aegean
- mythic, exploratory, and modular tile-driven play
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — Managing a limited pool of resources to operate tiles
- Tile Placement — Players lay tiles to expand their islands and trigger actions
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Quotes (from this video)
- yelling is cathartic, it's good for you
- my asian parents won't be too disappointed
- it's the warm-up, but you're doing great
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Chairman of the Board Discussion at 1:35 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- beautiful look and smooth gameplay
- accessible core mechanics
Cons
- not certain why it clicks emotionally every time
- may not have lasting appeal for the speaker
Thematic elements
- pickup and delivery via tile layout
- tile-placement on a Mediterranean island
- simple, elegant abstract-ish euro machinery
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pickup and delivery — moving goods to fulfill objectives as tiles are placed
- Tile Placement — placing tiles to optimize routes and coverage
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Quotes (from this video)
- rock solid martin wallace game and i'm really enjoying it
- it's got one of the weirdest pacings of the game
- I like it but I just don't love it and i don't think this is going to be sticking around much longer
- Six Nimpt by Wolfgand Kramer, a borderline essential game, a great little filler that everybody should play at least once
- it's just pure simple family weight fun
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Foster the Meatball Channel Top 10 List at 9:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Low setup time
- High depth for a card game
Cons
- Two-player only
Thematic elements
- Critters at War variant with different artwork
- Theaters of war in a two-player game
- Card-driven, strategic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-based action selection — Three theater cards determine possible actions
- Hand Management — Small set of cards drives rounds; withdraw to limit opponents' points
- limited hand management — Small set of cards drives rounds; withdraw to limit opponents' points
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a deck of cards that's all it is
- it's a mean trick taking game that is a bit unique
- it's very easy to set up
- open the box that's your arena
- it's so easy to travel with
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