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2020
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Description
Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co‑operative survival board game in which you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers. But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.
Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest. Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign. The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?
—description from the publisher
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top List at 6:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Potential to live up to the Aliens franchise
- Cooperative survival gameplay
Cons
- Still in development, may not be good ('may stink like feet')
- Likely not released until late spring/summer next year or beyond
Thematic elements
- Colonial Marines fighting Xenomorphs and finding survivors.
- Hadley's Hope (Aliens movie universe)
Comparison games
- Aliens (movie)
- An unnamed Aliens board game from the late 80s/early 90s
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign play — The game will have a campaign mode with multiple linked missions.
- cooperative play — Players work together as a team of specialists.
- Survival — Players need to survive against relentless xenomorph ambushes.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- each month I produce a video that tracks the top 10 hottest board Cardon tabletop games but inevitably there's additional games that catch my eye but they just don't rank hot enough to make it onto the official top 10 so I never get a chance to talk about them but this series I'm gonna discuss five of those recent games that even though they didn't make it into the official top 10 still piqued my interest and caught my eye
- if you haven't yet seen or tried out just one well my advice to you is go give this game a try try it just once
- and again to be honest when I first heard about this game it didn't really register on my radar but when I saw it demoed at BG Con and saw how it works and what it has to offer this what really got it to spark my attention
- you don't want to work together you want to be the one person who saves it because that makes sense regardless
- so there you go there are five games that recently caught my eye and why I'm wondering if any of them have been on your radar as well
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 13:31 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Fun to play
- Interesting miniatures
- Would be interested in diving back into it
Cons
- Grokking the rules took a bit
- Difficult to distinguish miniatures
- Tails on alien miniatures cause placement issues
- Missions take too long to play
Thematic elements
- Aliens
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- miniatures — Features cool miniatures.
- Mission-Based Scenarios — Plays through different missions and scenarios.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's just it's the best political themed that is not political uh game that's out there
- I still think it's amazing game it's a game that'll never leave my collection
- I still don't think it's as good as Battle Star Galactica but I don't like setting up all of battar Galactica this is kind of nice that in faal is just one box you open it up and you can play
- I'm not I'm just I'm not going ever say I don't like unfathomable I think it was fun
- and a lot of comments of like I know how how boys are aren't you worried about what boys will do if they're using a bathroom around uh a woman or whatever or a girl
- it is it is a real it's a real goddamn problem and you're worried about whether or not I just I can't even I can't even put it in words
- how dare you I mean how dare you like want to make things more difficult for children all over the world like you just just because you have just an unfounded ridiculous worry about what could possibly happen in a bath room
- I want my kids to grow up to be woke if you want to call it that I want them to be aware of how how you be a good person and how you be inclusive and you be inviting and you be understanding and you be open
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Board Games for One Top 6 List at 11:41 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- immersive Alien universe with broad expansions
- high replay potential with multiple characters
Cons
- profanity on cards noted by speaker; may affect resale value
- base game often lacks XP progression without expansions
Thematic elements
- cooperative survival against hordes of aliens
- sci-fi horror aboard a spacecraft
Comparison games
- Nemesis
- Escape the Dark Sector
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- asymmetric crews / class-based play — multiple characters with distinct abilities; expansions add XP growth
- Boss Battler — bosses and hordes with resource management
- wave-based threats and item collection — bosses and hordes with resource management
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm super excited about this.
- This is all guesswork here.
- This is a dungeon crawler — space crawler.
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No Rolls Barred Top List at 9:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- high tension and thematic coherence
- deep card-management strategy
- great for fans of tense co-ops
Cons
- requires careful setup and pacing
- can be brutal for new players
Thematic elements
- co-op survival against xenomorph swarm
- Hadley’s Hope
- gritty, battle-for-survival
Comparison games
- XCOM: The Board Game
- Pandemic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — players work together to survive waves of threats
- cooperative play — players work together to survive waves of threats
- endurance deck management — draw-and-exhaust card system to obtain weapons and gear
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- one of the cutest games i've ever seen
- it's a great time for a movie nerd to cross those streams and get into board games
- the thing infection outpost 31 or everything epic's awesome big trouble in little china aren't on here
- the back in time is also one of the hardest games i've ever played
- this is a license to print money but a hell of a game
- it's not just the art style which is super evocative and cool
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Meet Me At The Table Unboxing at 0:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Faithful film-inspired design and art, including use of actual movie footage on components
- Rich, tactile components (miniatures, dials, motion tracker cards)
- Flexible play: campaign or standalone missions with depth from commander/grunt mechanic
Cons
- Potentially language-heavy content on endurance and event cards
- Miniatures require assembly; painting is optional but adds time
- Rule complexity and setup can be daunting for casual players
Thematic elements
- cooperation under threat, survival, tactical combat against xenomorph threats
- Aliens universe; aboard a spaceborne colonial marine operation
- cinematic, movie-faithful
Comparison games
- Leading Edge Games Aliens (80s)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign and standalone scenarios — Three-part campaign with branching options and standalone bug-hunt missions.
- Card-driven events and endurance deck — Endurance and event cards drive on-turn actions, hazards, and timing.
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to accomplish mission objectives against the alien threat.
- cooperative gameplay — Players work together to accomplish mission objectives against the alien threat.
- Events — Endurance and event cards drive on-turn actions, hazards, and timing.
- Mini-Games — Miniatures require assembly; some players may choose to paint for aesthetics.
- Miniatures with assembly — Miniatures require assembly; some players may choose to paint for aesthetics.
- Modular Board — Multiple boards assembled into a map; aliens spawn via motion-tracker cards and blips.
- Modular map and spawn system — Multiple boards assembled into a map; aliens spawn via motion-tracker cards and blips.
- Per-figure command system (commander vs grunt) — Characters can be played as command-focused leaders or as grunts with differing powers.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a cooperative survival game
- another glorious day in the core
- i'm really excited for this
- i'm excited to get this to the table
- this is going to be awesome
- the rulebook has pictures from the movie and diagrams
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