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Bot Hunters

Game ID: GID0051832
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Year
2021
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Description

Each bot is precious to a young Bot Hunter, who wants to get a good name among peers and to prove to be the best. Wild bots can be found everywhere and to catch them a hunter needs to fight them. To catch bots also means to gain their trust and their valuable help in completing your mission. Unfortunately, you will frequently meet other mysterious masked hunters, who won’t mind getting in the way and you will have to fight.

To catch bots, to use their powers to catch other bots, to defeat all masked hunters, and to create winning combinations to gather Victory Points. The game takes from 7 to 9 rounds. At the end of the game, players count their Victory Points: Victory points obtained from their bots ($), from combinations of bots, and from other bonuses received during the game. The player with the highest number of Victory Points is the winner.

Description

Each bot is precious to a young Bot Hunter, who wants to get a good name among peers and to prove to be the best. Wild bots can be found everywhere and to catch them a hunter needs to fight them. To catch bots also means to gain their trust and their valuable help in completing your mission. Unfortunately, you will frequently meet other mysterious masked hunters, who won’t mind getting in the way and you will have to fight.

To catch bots, to use their powers to catch other bots, to defeat all masked hunters, and to create winning combinations to gather Victory Points. The game takes from 7 to 9 rounds. At the end of the game, players count their Victory Points: Victory points obtained from their bots ($), from combinations of bots, and from other bonuses received during the game. The player with the highest number of Victory Points is the winner.

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • unique scoring using a continuous drafting process
  • Star Wars flavor
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • bounty-hunting drafting/ tableau building
  • Star Wars universe
Comparison games
  • Sushi Go
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Drafting — cards are drafted to build a personal tableau.
  • tableau-building — constructed tableau to maximize points.
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  • your voices mean a ton in those spaces
  • it's a Gateway game that will just feel a lot of fun to play again
  • it's kind of a brain burner actually
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