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Year
2019
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Description
A mysterious criminal element has taken root in Brook City. Known only as "The Syndicate," this collection of ruthless murderers, clever thieves, corrupt politicians, and dirty cops has given rise to a new era of crime. The Brook City Police Department needs the best of the best to clean up the streets of this once peaceful metropolis. So here's your gun and badge...get to work, officer.
Brook City is a co-operative miniatures board game of blockbuster action for 1–4 cops. Taking on the roles of heroic cops inspired by classic action movie stars, players take their cop decks up against sinister criminal decks and cryptic case decks.
Gameplay focuses on a sprawling game board depicting the mean streets of Brook City. Players must use their chosen cop's unique deck to race across the city—both on foot and behind the wheel—busting up their chosen criminal's machinations while simultaneously piecing together the clues to the chosen case.
Brook City thrusts players into a world of big budget Hollywood action, where they can take down dangerous criminals, bust crimes with custom dice, commandeer a variety of vehicles, and solve complex cases inspired by classic cop stories.
Brook City utilizes Adam and Brady Sadler's "Modular Deck System (MDS)," which they introduced in Street Masters. The MDS focuses on quick setup and elegant, card-driven gameplay, while allowing players to customize their game experience by mixing and matching fixed decks to create truly unique match-ups.
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Board Games UnLocked Playthrough at 0:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Thematic integration of Guy Fieri and movie references enhances the game's flavor.
- Engaging case progression with surprising narrative twists.
- Hunches are a versatile and important resource.
- Character abilities and card play offer strategic depth.
- The game mechanics work well together, creating a cohesive experience.
Cons
- Mechanically dense with a significant amount of reading required.
- Dice rolls and luck can be a major factor.
Thematic elements
- Solving a murder case
- Brook City
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Tactic cards and other special cards are used to modify gameplay, providing bonuses, unique actions, or ways to mitigate negative effects.
- Case progression — The game involves solving cases by encountering suspects and gathering clues, with specific win conditions tied to completing case objectives.
- character abilities — Each character has unique abilities that impact gameplay, such as Gus Ferguson's movement rules and resistances, and the players' characters' abilities to gain hunches or reduce resistances.
- Hunch system — Hunches are a resource that can be spent to gain advantages, such as treating dice rolls as critical successes or gaining additional actions.
- Impounding vehicles — A specific mechanic allows players to impound Gus's vehicle, hindering his movement and potentially affecting his abilities.
- Influence Tokens — Influence tokens are placed on cards and collected by characters, with certain thresholds leading to negative consequences for the players.
- Suspect actions — Suspects like Gus Ferguson have specific actions they perform each turn, influencing the game state by moving, gaining influence, or causing stress to the cops.
- Vehicle movement — Players can use vehicles to move around the board, with specific rules for entering, exiting, and commandeering them.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Welcome to flavor town
- holy moly stromboli
- peace love and taco grease
- My masterpiece is complete I call it the Vitruvian Woman isn't she beautiful pig
- We won
- Maximum flavor methamphetamine
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Versatility and variety are great.
- The deck system (character, boss, case) is effective.
- The 'Prepared' keyword makes duplicate cards useful.
- Synergy between players is cool.
- The game accommodates more players well.
- The car mechanics lead to hilarious moments.
- The stress mechanic is thematically appropriate for a cop game.
- Exploding dice system is fun.
- Hunches can be spent to make dice results into successes.
- The ability to draw a card as an action is a nice addition.
- The ability to rest if you don't move is helpful.
- A lot of replayability due to different cases and characters.
Cons
- The card system is incredibly similar to other games by the same designers.
- The game can be confusing and wordy, especially regarding influence and progress.
- The rules for vehicles (movement, getting in/out) are awkward and fiddly.
- The distinction between move steps and action steps can be confusing.
- Playing a card is not the same as using an action unless it specifically says 'action'.
Thematic elements
- Buddy cop procedural
- Contemporary urban environment
Comparison games
- Street Masters
- Heroes in Need
- Ultra Quest
- Sentinels of the Multiverse
- Smash Up
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action: Draw Card — One of the available actions allows a player to draw a card, which is a feature not present in Street Masters.
- Action: Heal/Rest — Players can take an action to rest if they do not move, providing a way to recover.
- Card Play — Playing cards from hand is a core action, with specific rules around 'action' cards versus other card plays.
- Case/Scenario System — The game is structured around specific cases with unique objectives and boss characters.
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve case objectives.
- Deck Building — Players have unique decks that contribute to their abilities and actions.
- Dice Rolling — Uses exploding dice for actions, with successes that can be spent or converted using 'hunches'.
- Hunch Tokens — Tokens used to convert dice results into successes or to mitigate stress.
- Keyword 'Prepared' — A keyword that allows for enhanced card plays and movement, making duplicate cards more useful.
- Stress Mechanic — Instead of physical damage, players accumulate stress, which impacts gameplay.
- Vehicle mechanics — Players can utilize various vehicles, including cars and motorcycles, which affect movement and have specific rules for entry and exit.
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Quotes (from this video)
- These games are so much fun.
- The card system is incredibly similar, but if it works, it works.
- I love the versatility, the variety is just so great.
- This one had like a lot of extra stuff, yeah, it was kind of confusing, very wordy.
- It is very initially very awkward.
- It's always really cool because to see the synergy between players.
- This one has a kind of a more hilarious tone to it, very action-packed.
- It is this game, this is so much fun, you gotta get past and the initial reason for an eight was you have to get over kind of the fiddliness of definitely cops, it is very fiddly, another cops of the car and the wording.
- I think a nine is a solid solid score.
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 1:03:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive, but not played recently
Pros
- Definitely gives off blockbuster action.
- Buddy cop the game.
- A blast from what I remember.
- Want to play this more.
Cons
- Haven't played it since doing it for the channel, which was a while ago.
- Blacklist Games doesn't exist anymore.
Thematic elements
- Buddy Cop Action
- Urban
- Thematic
Comparison games
- Street Masters
- UltraQuest
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to solve a case and take down criminals.
- Dice Rolling — Uses custom dice to bust crimes.
- Modular deck system — Players combine components (case, character, etc.) to create their gameplay setup.
- Movement — Players move to different locations to handle thugs and solve cases.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And then you have to balance the Defcon track and then balance your military while also uh balancing the victory points
- The fact that every player has a very busted player power, but because they're all bro because they're all broken, none of them are.
- This was the first game that I played that had that element. And I've always liked that ever since.
- It it's the battle of Helms's Deep H just with a different theme.
- So it wasn't the most highly narrative game, but it was something that I feel like this game needed right off rip.
- Just buddy cop buddy cop the game.
- The problem with modular expansions for games like this. And the reason why it's on this list is because I don't play this all the time.
- I would go out of my way to probably say this is the best pirate game.
- this one's gameplay just really does it for me.
- It hit number one because I'm I'd be more inclined to play BattleCon than I would any of these other games, but it also has been games that I haven't touched in a long time.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Top List at 28:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- ultimate worker placement game
- amazing
- in my top 20 of all time
- maybe in my top 10 of all time
- really good
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- superheroes
Comparison games
- Federation
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Players aim for majorities in rows, columns, or board areas for scoring.
- Variable player powers — Implied by the choice between Brook City and Federation, and the discussion of 'same thing' they represent.
- Worker Placement — Players place workers on action spaces, considering both the action and potential blocking.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's one of those games where I could just play it forever.
- This is a game that really quickly rose up to be one of my favorite uh games in general and I think it's wonderful.
- Jaws of the lion has this fantastic way of learning a Gloom Haven basically.
- It's no means a Gateway game it still has the meat and potatoes which is the intricate card play that you have to manage.
- You can play it in like 20 minutes with six players.
- It has a very tactical map game where you place pieces, you move them around.
- so hard to get is like the perfect game in that genre for me and so I think every everybody should play it.
- it's just pure fun.
- they are like the ultimate work placement games because you have so many reasons for where you want to place.
- it's the best game it's not the best but it's almost the best game.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 5:52 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- full rights back under creator control enables sequels and expanded worlds
Cons
- ongoing risk of brand fragmentation without external voices
Thematic elements
- brand ownership and publishing control
- Brook City and Hour of Need IPs
- brand development and world-building
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- IP rights management — not a game mechanic in itself, but part of the publishing strategy
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pegasus is releasing Dwarf Romantic light luggage, which is a new compact version of this spiel's winner.
- This is coming to the US in November.
- Lords of Water Deep is finding a new home with Renegade.
- You don't remember Battlecopter? He was a copter.
- Unstoppable has come out before, but now they're coming out with a new Unstoppable that crosses over with Dungeon Crawler Carl.
- The Saddler brothers are very good designers.
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