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In the year 2097, the entire Earth was enveloped in a cataclysmic shift in climate, plunging the globe into another ice age. Nearly 90% of the world’s population was eliminated, driving the survivors to band together into loose communities and tribes.
In Arctic Scavengers, you are the leader of a small tribe of survivors. Resources, tools, medicine, and mercenaries are all in scarce supply. You and your tribe are pitted against up to four other tribes in a fight for survival. Build up your tribe, skirmish against other players head-to-head, or even bluff your way to victory.
The player with the largest tribe at the end of the game is declared the winner!
Year Published
2009
Transcript Analysis
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Cape Fear Games general_discussion at 27:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Survival theme
- Card-driven play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Survival and scavenging
- Post-apocalyptic arctic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat
- Deck building
- deck-building
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm intimidated to get started with it.
- You're building outposts and in order to increase your trade routes.
- the artwork here is quite lovely
- I'm not super into Political themes.
- it's a dexterity game where you are building up power towers on the island of nikima
- Arctic scavengers I picked this up because I know nothing about it
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Tabletop Turtle general_discussion at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great game
- deck building with added depth
- end-of-round combat auction mechanic
- has expansions
- cards held for round become combat strength
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- post-apocalyptic
- winter wasteland
- scavenger tribes
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 very Cutthroat here - I much rather save budget for a new game, save space for new games
- not all games are forever games - sometimes it's totally okay to buy a game with the expectation of playing it for about five years and then not wanting to play it again
- I can still respect I played a lot of Steam, but I just don't want to play it anymore
- there's so much hate on like oh you can't be like dipping your chosen to miniature games - but as adults there's so much hate on that
- when you own a lot of games there's a lot of rules up here and the tough thing is that when there's so many rules up here you need some games that you teach or play later to be a little intuitive
- the difficulty I have with it is that when I explain it to new players it's tough to explain - each player has a different ruleset
- I think that's one of the first games that if it didn't invent that concept at least popularize it
- if the game is going to warrant me having to do separate explanations for everybody, extra effort - it's got to be really damn good and Vast isn't really damn good
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Actual Oh general_discussion at 9:48 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- thematic premise of a post-apocalyptic winter survival
Cons
- theme rarely comes through in the mechanics
- feels like a standard deck-building game rather than survival-focused
- turns can feel repetitive and predictable
Thematic elements
- tribe-building and resource competition
- post-apocalyptic winter survival
- deck-building with skirmish battles and resource control
Comparison games
- Clank
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck building — your deck represents people in your tribe; you recruit and deploy them
- deck-building with workers — your deck represents people in your tribe; you recruit and deploy them
- digging from the scrap pile — you can search for items and improvements to aid survival
- skirmish endgame — final confrontations determine contested resources
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the real disappointment is that it's a horror game you need the tension of a horror film you need to feel like you could die or lose it any minute and you could but you never feel like you're in with a fighting chance
- I would recommend checking out burgle brothers
- I would never play Dixit again
- Mysterium is a game with all the wonderful artwork but it has a real game to it as far as I'm concerned
- Burgle Brothers is a brilliant cooperative game where you're doing a bank heist together
- I really love that game and that's because it does something very different that no other deck builder does
- I would still play it but certainly don't want it in my collection anymore
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