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Year
2024
Players
2
Age
13+
Playtime
20 min
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Description
Altered is an innovative TCG which offers a new, refreshing approach to both competitive and casual players. Set in a universe of rich lore and visual design (influenced by Miyazaki's work and Dixit-like illustrations), this game is about exploring a new, reshaped Earth after a mysterious event, the Confluence, profoundly altered it.
Shape your own adventure, choose a faction and lead your expeditions through an ever-changing world. Be the first to discover what the universe of Altered has in store for you!
What really lies at the heart of this revolution is a ton of expertly tailored details — a new rarity system, deep evolving lore, innovative game mechanisms and design — and a phygital experience that comes along with its myriad of life-quality improvements, both for the players, tournaments organizers and store owners alike.
Born and led from the mind of talented game designer Régis Bonnessée (founder of the Libellud studio, which published Dixit, Mysterium, Dice Forge, and Seasons), this project is brought to you by the French studio Equinox, based in Paris, in partnership with and exclusively distributed by Asmodee.
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Video rNMaBST_a0c
Watch It Played Discussion at 0:17 sentiment: positive
video_pk 87808 · mention_pk 230119
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Innovative trading card game
- Refreshing approach
- Rich lore and visual design
- Tactical element
- Interesting reserve mechanic (half open/half secret hand)
- Feels different from other TCGs
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Exploring a new reshaped Earth
- A reshaped Earth after a mysterious event called the Confluence
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Battles/Expeditions — Winning a series of battles, expeditions, on two battlefronts.
- Card Play — Playing cards with a huge variety of effects to hopefully exert the most stats in three types of land allowing you to make progress.
- Reserve mechanic — Some cards you play go into reserve, making half your hand open and half secret.
- Trading Card Game — Pitched as an innovative trading card game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Roll your meeple, build your city.
- Supreme D says that I love the uniqueness of rolling meeples rather than dice, as well as the sheer amount of build options to customize your perfect city.
- The game is also quite a looker with its plastic pieces in a variety of colors.
- And you do, you roll your meeple, and you get very angry at your meeple, because they don't roll well, because they're meeple. And they land They are like wider than regular meeple. It works It does really work very well, but you just go, "Oh, come on. Why aren't you Why aren't you working right?"
- And the game does have incredible, like, table presence, because you're building up these huge skyscrapers.
- Join other ambitious guild leaders in mining and developing the famous city of silver during its period of rapid economic growth and expansion in the 14th century.
- The game features a real-life supply and demand experience.
- Kenneth K says that I recently acquired Coimbra, this is a very interesting game with an analog device for controlling stock market prices.
- Luke P says that I replayed this fantastic economic game at AirCon and was blown away by how smoothly the game ran, particularly with new players to the game and with breaks for chitchat.
- Everyone just seems to be really enjoying this.
- Man, this is fun.
- I do think that the box cover does the game a disservice.
- Because the box cover is like it's black with a like a thing white like a coin some silver I guess on the front.
- It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen on the table.
- All the artwork and the dark and the the the buildings all brightly colored on the dark background and it's absolutely gorgeous.
- It really is so much more beautiful on the inside of the game than on the outside of the box.
- So it's one of those I'm going to have to learn eventually just because it's going to come up.
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Man vs Meeple Top List at 24:34 sentiment: positive
video_pk 86594 · mention_pk 224574
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- satisfying tableau actions
- flexible resource management
- interesting tech upgrades
- good for planning
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- fishing, trading, upgrading
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Clearing rows or columns of actions is a key part of the selection mechanism.
- Resource Management — Features a resource ladder that allows for upgrading and downgrading resources.
- Tableau Building — Players build a personal tableau of pieces and cards.
- Tech Tree — Players acquire tech upgrades throughout the game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's probably the hardest video we do all year because we have to look back at the entire year and think just about 10 games only 10 games that we really enjoyed this year
- this is seti
- this game is it's just so satisfying
- the coolest part for me is once you have enough traces of life you get to discover one of the two alien species that were set aside at the beginning of the game and when you reveal the alien species you get to go to this whole other like component set and there's cards there's tokens there's a whole bunch of things that are going to be added into the game and a rule sheet
- it's so much going on at once
- I love a sense of exploration or like I I love the reveal
- my number game for the year was set it was so I was so close to putting it number one
- the card play for me along with everything what you said it's like it's like a heavier game where you're doing efficiencies everything I love
- my number one game of the year Star Wars unlimited
- This game took me completely by storm
- I am all in on it I am buying boxes Galore
- this is the only ccgm play
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Stonemaier Games Top 10 List at 8:01 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81822 · mention_pk 204543
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Explores a neat shared-space tug-of-war concept
- Strong central interaction between players
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- territory control via shared middle space
- center table path; tug-of-war style
- design_space exploration
Comparison games
- Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
- Seven Wonders Duel
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- own deck with shared space — each player has their own deck, plus a shared interaction space.
- path-based tug-of-war — pushes control along a central path.
- territory control on central path — players interact on a shared central path of cards.
- Tug of War — pushes control along a central path.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- One thing I liked about Lorcana is that it is a race to to points rather than a race to reducing your opponent's life to zero.
- I love the Star Wars theme.
- There's no resources to manage. It's just saying, I declare one of these factions and I play all cards with that faction.
- I think this is a really neat space.
- the dice in Dungeon Dragon Dice, they are stunning. Like, they're really, really beautiful.
- opening up packs on a daily basis.
- KeyForge has one of the coolest mechanisms I think in any game.
- one of the things I think is particularly clever about Good Knight is that you actually get to see you almost certainly see your entire deck of cards when you play it.
- Rolling Realms Redux even though they have the same playing field.
- Marvel Snap ... your deck is small. Similar to Goodnight, you are going to see your entire deck.
- Magic the Gathering is going to be my number one favorite collectible, expandable, customizable game on this list.
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The Dice Tower Event Coverage at 1:10
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is the grooviest board gaming weekend in all of Knoxville is the promise here.
- The dice are shaped like heads.
- This is the best game of Medici I've ever played.
- You're the biggest loser.
- We wanted to do something that had some ways to get people connected really quick right from the jump.
- Well, Funky Town Games, it's been real, it's been fun, but it hasn't been funky.
- I haven't seen one in the wild, probably decade.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 0:15
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm House Wisdom with a terrible die roll.
- Austin has now excused us from playing Altiere.
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Discussion at 15:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Snappy and easy to get into.
- Simultaneous play is efficient.
- Interesting combination of dice placement and bag building.
- High replayability due to variable artifacts and objectives.
Cons
- Still on crowdfunding, availability might be limited.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Tents
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Used in conjunction with dice.
- Dice Placement — Dice are placed on a player's villa board, dictating actions on the main board where emissaries go.
- Engine Building — Upgrading dice and using symbols to trigger actions and gain points.
- Track Advancement — Many spots allow bumping tracks.
- Worker Placement — Dice placement indicates where workers (emissaries) go.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I really enjoy a the production of this game is incredible.
- There's a really great kind of tableau build if you're into like Arc Nova, that kind of, you know, you're building out multiple cards with different tags.
- It's really, really fun. I enjoy it every time. I do something different every time.
- My best month is going to be Lords of Water Deep.
- This game is great. like this game is genuinely just like really solid.
- One of the first kind of big worker placement games. It wasn't the first worker placement game, but kind of one of the ones that put that kind of mechanic on the map,
- It's just good. It's just clean. It doesn't do anything fancy.
- It is really kind of straight up contract fulfillment.
- It's easy to teach.
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Top List at 17:18 sentiment: positive
video_pk 79468 · mention_pk 192913
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very unique design.
- Unique secret worker placement.
- Dice bag building mechanism.
- Interesting track progression with rewards.
Cons
- Host prefers Wondrous Creatures on the list.
Thematic elements
- Sending emissaries to complete actions to score influence and join a console.
- Altera Festival
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — New dice are added to a bag over the course of the game.
- Dice Rolling — Dice are rolled to determine actions and worker placement.
- secret worker placement — Workers are placed secretly using dice rolls.
- Track Advancement — Players move up tracks to gain rewards.
- track movement — Players move up tracks to gain rewards.
- Worker Placement — Workers are placed secretly using dice rolls.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's time for the hottest board games of the month.
- I don't know what shug means, but I don't know what shug is.
- I would say that this is a game where you take Talisman and then add a party game to it and this is what you get.
- Lightning train arrived like a lightning. And I don't know, will it stay here?
- Why is it suddenly hot? Well, we have that game and we have also the reason why it's hot right here in the studio.
- This month is a unique worker game. Why a unique worker? Because usually it's worker placement, but this time it's going to be worker movement and worker sliding.
- Osprey Games have announced that they're going to close their board game line. So, get their games while they last.
- Eight dragons has a little bit of set collection, a little bit of worker pushing, unique components.
- This is a deck builder.
- Harmonies is a little chill game where you're building your little plot of land right here trying to satisfy requirements of different animal cards.
- This is a secret worker placement.
- So, the unique secret worker placement, the moving up the tracks makes this a very unique experience.
- I still feel like Wondrous Creatures is the most wondrous game on this list.
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Discussion at 0:14 sentiment: positive
video_pk 74250 · mention_pk 178703
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Innovative approach to TCG
- Rich lore and visual design
- Optimistic theme
- Unique algorithmically generated cards
- Fun to play even without destroying the opponent
- Enjoying it more and more as played
Cons
- Algorithmically generated nonsense doesn't make sense but works
Thematic elements
- Exploring a new Earth, playing cards, and winning
- A New Earth reshaped after a mysterious event called the Confluence
Comparison games
- Magic the Gathering
- Pokemon
- Flesh and Blood
- Shadow Versus
- Star Wars Unlimited
- Universus
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Algorithmically Generated Cards — The cards are algorithmically generated meaning that every single card has its own unique combination of stats Mana costs and rules.
- Dueling — A dueling TCG that isn't about destroying your opponent.
- Trading Card Game — An innovative game that takes a different approach to the trading card game model.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- quick and fun solo game that is great anytime but best with coffee
- The artwork this really is cute it's all in shades of coffee colors and it's it's really cool.
- beings of ancient evil known as the old ones are threatening to break out of their cosmic prison and awake to the world everything you know and love could be destroyed by chaos and madness
- I am a large fan of the Thematic versions of pandemic pandemic's a fairly thematic game
- the board itself is so gorgeous like really evocative artwork on the board is lovely
- this is a new version of foundations of Rome
- the production is just nutty it's so beautiful it is one of my all-time favorite games
- foundations of metropolis could cement itself cement CU You're Building as one of the alltime Gateway Games it really could
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Review at 0:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique endgame condition where tokens meet, not just reducing opponent's life.
- Quick gameplay, taking about 10-15 minutes per game.
- Interesting Mana system where players choose cards to build their Mana pool.
- Straightforward deck construction process.
- Integrated digital and physical collection system with QR codes.
- Ability to reprint lost or traded cards.
- Familiar mechanics for board gamers (area majority, deck management).
- Streamlined deck construction compared to games like Lorcana.
Cons
- The uniqueness of the collection aspect may not be as hooking for regular TCG players.
- Deck construction might be too straightforward for players who enjoy more flexibility and time investment.
- Potential limitations on Board Game Arena implementation, possibly becoming a premium feature.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Magic
- Lorcana
- Marvel Snap
- KeyForge
- War of the Ring (card game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — The goal is to have two tokens meet in the middle by winning control of three areas (forest, mountain, water) each round based on card strength.
- Asymmetric powers — Players start with a hero and companion card that provides asymmetric powers during the game.
- Card Scanning (QR Code) — Physical cards have QR codes that can be scanned to track the collection digitally, linking physical and digital ownership.
- Deck construction — Players build a 30-card deck of a single color, choosing a hero card that grants an asymmetric power.
- Mana system — Players start with three Mana and draw two cards each turn, choosing one to add to their Mana pool to increase it by one, influencing decisions on card play versus Mana investment.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I think it's a really interesting approach to collection and making sure that you one have the ability to reprint cards that you don't have to hunt for someone else who has the card or a store that has the card there's a central location that can reprint all the cards that you need.
- I enjoyed my plays of altered I think this is a fun TCG that does feel unique and implements a lot of mechanisms that are found in other tcgs as well as board games.
- for me it's it's difficult financially to think about investing into another TCG at the moment but I think if you are a fan maybe you know you're not a fan of lur cona for the IP or for the gaml but also I think to card game players who enjoy an experience where it's more similar to key Forge or maybe even Marvel snap where the deck construction portion is not as difficult.
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Video ADWh1YYN7NE
kovray Playthrough
video_pk 60342 · mention_pk 165075
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this game is absolutely beautiful
- you can scan and register your cards
- into your collection online
- wow I found them
- yeah let's go surprise him here you go
- local London drugs and pick it up today
- altered the TCG
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BoardGameCo Top N List at 2:45 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Visually appealing presentation
- Engaging fantasy vibe
Cons
- Reviewer isn't the target audience for RPG/TCG hybrids
Thematic elements
- fantasy/sci-fi crossover
- Trading card game / board game hybrid
- story-driven
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Blend of card play and board mechanics for actions
- Deck-building with board/game hybrid — Blend of card play and board mechanics for actions
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a gamefound's press event where every quarter we put out a press event of here are a bunch of the campaigns that you can expect to see.
- The top three alone, Zomicide, Dead Montales, Onward Twisted, Twisted, and Seven Wonders.
- Semi co-op has always at best I've had fun with semi-opp, I haven't loved semi-op, so we'll see.
- The vibes are incredible. I love this kind of universe and setting and art.
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- First experience with a TCG-like format
- Art and gameplay appealed strongly
Cons
- Requires more play to form a final judgment
Thematic elements
- fantasy/arcane battles in a TCG-like structure
- Thematic dueling card game framework
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat: Deck/Hand — Two players duel in a card-driven confrontation; some track-based interaction
- dueling/one-on-one — Two players duel in a card-driven confrontation; some track-based interaction
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Canada plays was a amazing experience it was absolutely fantastic
- Altered was one that we learned at Canada plays and I freaking loved altered
- I freaking loved it and I can definitely see myself falling down the altered black hole
- Contra banter is definitely a game that stressed me out but it was very fun
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Board Game Coffee Discussion at 27:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Demoed with a four-person group; interest shown in a future play
Cons
- Limited details available in the talk; exact rules and scope unclear
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Stock Holding — Build and develop assets (buildings) and manage stocks to grow value.
- stock/asset development — Build and develop assets (buildings) and manage stocks to grow value.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love the artwork on the box; it's comic-book-y.
- The ghost can speak now; they have powers.
- It's got a very mysterium vibe; just paint it all over.
- Chartered looked cool; I sat there and played a four-person demo.
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