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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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kovray Analysis at 54:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Visually appealing
Cons
none
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you whisper banana split into Tyler's ear, you'll get a pin.
- I think the game takes too long.
- my criticism of fishing is that you can play any card and you'll probably get the same score.
- We just love their games. Like, it's an easy buy for us.
- Cat games are a hit.
- Look at the cover. Um trick taking and the cuteness of the cover. I'm I'm pretty excited about it.
- And I don't know the trick- elements of this game, but what I do know is it is gorgeous.
- Stickum is brilliant and I feel like it's a very underrated kind of flew under the radar game and now Piccant is back with Stickham.
- It plays really quick. It's so silly and it's a ton of fun.
- We've had a blast playing through this game.
- You just feel really cool in this game.
- I really like the colors of this game and the shapes of this game.
- Now here it's a strategy game but it involves flicking.
- basically looks like a box of chocolates.
- but it's also like it's exquisite expensive chocolates.
- And the theme looks really cool. Everything about it is just calling to me and it makes me feel unique.
- it's basically a racing game except you don't know what racer you are.
- Fragments was my favorite game of September.
- I've have not felt this incredible playing a board game in a very long time.
- but it is so so so so clever.
- I am excited for Carpet Racers because I think that is really, really unique.
- And obviously fragments the big box.
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Modular tiles that organically grow
- No GM
- Scenario cards and something's happening cards change up the gameplay
- High replayability
- Tower defense style gameplay
- Successfully kickstarted in 2012 with enhancements
- Z Master expansion allows a player to play zombies
Cons
- Mortality rate in Z Master is pretty high
Thematic elements
- surviving zombies
- post-apocalyptic wasteland
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat System — Rolling everything together. So instead of taking individual attacks with each of your survivors, we have it set up so that you can roll all of them at once to do a quick play type type of just
- fortifications — You are basically trying to build fortifications to survive against the zombies.
- modular tiles — We have modular tiles that basically organically grow. The players place the tiles down.
- no GM — There is no GM for the game.
- Resource Management — You need to go out, find food to feed your survivors. You need to go out and find additional survivors.
- Scenario cards — We have uh scenario cards and something's happening cards which change up the gameplay.
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- Hi, my name is Zachary Parks, one of the co-creators for Greenbire Games
- Zpocalypse is a modular zombie defense game and such where you are playing as survivors, a squad of survivors that is basically trying to survive in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- The replayability of Zpocalypse is pretty fantastic in our opinion.
- The world has basically been nuked for all intents and purposes and these zombies are all over the place trying to get you and your whole purpose is basically just trying to survive.
- Though I do have to say that the mortality rate in team master is pretty high.
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Let's Table It Review at 0:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
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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