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2025
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Description
New Aquatica in a duel format: deeper, meaner and more intense.
Choose a Turtle King or a Squid Queen and improve your underwater realm by playing action cards and assembling locations on three-layered boards. After decades of turbulent times, it is time to unite the underwater world under the fin or tentacle of a single ruler!
New layer of depth is brought to the game by the dynamic market on a vortex board.
Be careful! The game can end not only when all players achieve their goals but also based on who is the fastest to collect the crowns. Tension is added by the tug of war mechanic.
Also, mantas will finally have the company of equally charming squids and turtles.
—description from the publisher
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Getting Games Discussion at 5:45 sentiment: other
video_pk 87496 · mention_pk 336485
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Overall sentiment (raw)
curious
Pros
- compact two-player format with satisfying combos
- return to Aquatica with a new two-player variant
Cons
- not sure how it will compare to Concordia (the host preferred Concordia previously)
Thematic elements
- aquatic ecosystems with card-driven combos
- Underwater realm
- two-player standalone, based on Aquatica
Comparison games
- Concordia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card_based_actions — players play a card to perform actions; combos are chained on personal boards.
- engine_building — building up a sequence of card interactions to maximize scoring.
- two_player — duo-focused design with some solo possibility.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- 24 games that I'm going to be talking about I'm going to go through them in alphabetical order
- my heart skipped a beat when I saw this on the list
- time will have to tell on that one
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Watch It Played Discussion at 9:37 sentiment: positive
video_pk 83945 · mention_pk 336058
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- two-player format
- nice minis (turtles, squids, manta rays)
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — collect crowns and manage resources to improve underwater realms.
- token/resource management — collect crowns and manage resources to improve underwater realms.
- Tug of War — a dynamic win condition with a strategic tug-of-war in the middle.
- tug-of-war / endgame strategy — a dynamic win condition with a strategic tug-of-war in the middle.
- two-player action cards — duel format with action cards and locations to assemble.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- What drew me to Legions is more Abyss.
- Abyss is a fantastic game.
- Gloom Haven second edition, which is a revised and elevated version of the award-winning core game Gloom Haven.
- I like Aquatica.
- I have a huge heart for this game. I love Rivals for Katan.
- The Druids of Adora is a brand new Stefenfeld game that is just seems to have gone wildly unnoticed.
- I'm super excited about the druids of Adora.
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Grant Lyon Top List at 18:30 sentiment: positive
video_pk 83331 · mention_pk 341701
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- unique game mechanics with card sliding
- epic turns with combo potential
- adds tension and strategic blocking in two-player version
- dynamic market offers new ways to get cards and combo
- two-player versions often have interesting paths to victory
- easier to get to the table than 3-4 player games
Cons
- calls the two-player version 'meaner'
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Aquatica
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card sliding — you're going to be getting these cards and sort of sliding them up into your board notch by notch. And as you slide them up, you're going to get benefits.
- Engine Building — The thematic elements involved in Aquatica are the cards that you slide up to gain benefits, coins, and abilities.
- market — but now there's this new market here uh that uh it's a dynamic market on the vortex board. So it's going to be a new way to get cards, a new way to combo things together.
- player interaction — So, that adds this tension because every time you play it, you have to respond to what your opponent is going for and sort of block them off.
- Set Collection — You are playing mind games where you're trying to get the cards you need to build sets in front of you.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Aquatica is one of the most unique games I've ever played because you're going to be getting these cards and sort of sliding them up into your board notch by notch.
- And so you have these epic turns where you're like I'm going to slide this up that's going to help me get this card that's going to get me this and that's going to get me and ba ba ba
- So, that adds this tension because every time you play it, you have to respond to what your opponent is going for and sort of block them off.
- I love the mechanism I split you choose.
- And I don't feel like it's used in enough games.
- And so you are playing mind games the whole time where you're like, "Ooh, how do I how do I put something decently enticing on the top but not enticing enough that they want to keep that?"
- Maybe they think, "Ooh, there's probably something better underneath that." And then I screw them and then I put something there that they don't want.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 1:42 sentiment: positive
video_pk 36036 · mention_pk 107898
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- distinct two-player feel with meaningful choices
- varied routes to victory
- different from other Aquatica variants
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Underwater competition and card-driven tension
- Two-player Aquatica-style conflict with sea-based tug-of-war
- Two-player abstracted strategy with thematic wrapping
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-based action selection — Cards influence both players’ options and outcomes
- Card/Chit Market — Card wheel in the middle to refill at key moments
- Tug of War — Multiple win paths with opposing forces influencing a shared board
- two-player tug-of-war — Multiple win paths with opposing forces influencing a shared board
- wheel of cards in the middle — Card wheel in the middle to refill at key moments
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I really like this.
- It's just a fantastic game.
- The artwork from Vincent Drey does not hurt the matters at all. It's a nice small package.
- This is a cooperative, hilarious, fun adventure that's unlike most games that are out there.
- It's almost a role playing game.
- This is not a silly little game. It looks kind of silly on the front of it, but I found it to be very fun.
- There's a wheel of cards in the middle. Trying to refill those cards at a critical point is a pretty big deal.
- Recall definitely feels like a cousin of Revive.
- it's a back and forth nailbiter.
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