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Year
2023
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Description
Only one of you will escape the Island alive. Who will that be? Apocalypso is a fast-paced dice game where players aim to be the last one standing. The game starts with the youngest player and moves clockwise from there. Each player gets to roll the dice up to three times to achieve their desired roll.
This is a fun and exciting party game that requires strategy and luck. With its easy-to-follow rules and quick gameplay, it's a great choice for game night with friends and family.
—description from the publisher
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Let's Table It Review at 0:17 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Affordable and easy to learn
- Accessible to a wide range of players
- Mix of luck and strategy with multiple viable approaches
Cons
- Not mind-blowing or revolutionary
- Heavy reliance on dice luck
- Short playtime may limit depth
Thematic elements
- Survival under overwhelming environmental disasters
- A post-apocalyptic scenario featuring volcanoes and tsunamis that affect players during play
- Procedural, dice-driven, emergent outcomes
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — On your turn you roll six disaster dice up to three times, choosing which results to keep and rerolling the rest.
- Dice rolling with up to three rolls — On your turn you roll six disaster dice up to three times, choosing which results to keep and rerolling the rest.
- End-of-turn token actions — After rolling, or at the end of your turn, you flip or gain strikes and resolve token actions from your roll.
- Hearts and palm trees mitigation — Five hearts remove a strike; five palm trees remove all disaster tokens.
- Icon-based effects and token placement — Volcano and tsunami icons allow placing disaster tokens on opponents; tokens accumulate based on dice results and their sides.
- Strike system — Collecting three strikes eliminates a player from the game.
- Token removal costs — To remove disaster tokens, you must end your turn with certain icon combinations.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a quick dice rolling game of the apocalypse
- isn't a game that will blow your mind
- the goal is to make affordable games that don't take a lot of brain power to learn
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