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Speeding through space, Burke's Gambit is a rugged company freighter on an extremely important mission, with its seasoned crew being tasked with finding powerful alien technology. What the crew finds instead is something they never expected: a dangerous parasitic organism has somehow made its way into the ship and inside the body of one of the crew members!
Just as the bio-organism contamination alarm goes off, one of the crew members seizes the chaotic moment and sabotages the freighter's engines. The ship, its crew, and the parasitic organism are all on a collision course with planet Earth, where further contamination of the world's population awaits.
Which of the crew are dedicated company personnel wanting the alien organism to reach Earth? Which are just crew wanting to identify the infected crew member? Most importantly, which member of the crew is infected?! Join the crew of Burke's Gambit on a wild space adventure with hidden affiliations and a hidden infected player.
In Burke's Gambit, players take on specific roles of Captain, Marine, Comms Officer and more as they take turns and roll a die. The possibilities of the die include damaging another player, healing themselves, looking at a crew affiliation card, or even scanning a player's diagnostic card. But if you roll an engine power up, you hasten the ship's arrival to Earth. When Burke's Gambit reaches Earth, a vote must be held to eject someone from the airlock (assuming anyone's left)!
- Fun, but needs more plays
- Intriguing premise
- Not enough information after one play
- Designer is no longer with us
- Alien parasite
- Space
- Hidden roles
- Aliens
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Reach into a bag, pull a die, roll it, and can reroll if desired.
- Hidden Roles — One person is infected, company people want them to make it back to Earth to extract the parasite. Others want to jettison the infected person.
- Set Collection — Looking at parasite cards to gain information.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just it's the best political themed that is not political uh game that's out there
- I still think it's amazing game it's a game that'll never leave my collection
- I still don't think it's as good as Battle Star Galactica but I don't like setting up all of battar Galactica this is kind of nice that in faal is just one box you open it up and you can play
- I'm not I'm just I'm not going ever say I don't like unfathomable I think it was fun
- and a lot of comments of like I know how how boys are aren't you worried about what boys will do if they're using a bathroom around uh a woman or whatever or a girl
- it is it is a real it's a real goddamn problem and you're worried about whether or not I just I can't even I can't even put it in words
- how dare you I mean how dare you like want to make things more difficult for children all over the world like you just just because you have just an unfounded ridiculous worry about what could possibly happen in a bath room
- I want my kids to grow up to be woke if you want to call it that I want them to be aware of how how you be a good person and how you be inclusive and you be inviting and you be understanding and you be open
References (from this video)
- Cool
- Lot of depth
- Fun for a secret role game
- One-time use abilities add depth
- Has flaws
- Hard system to pull off
- Get the person with the alien inside them back to Earth without anyone finding out
- A spaceship heading back to Earth
- Secret role game
- Panic Station
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — You reach in a bag, pull a die and roll it.
- Deduction — Players have to figure out who the person is that has the parasite and they need to jettison them from the ship.
- Player Elimination — You can attack and you can kill people in the game. If you do that they're out of the game.
- Secret Role — Each person gets a card that tells them whether they are infected or not. The bad guys want the person to make it back to Earth.
- Variable player powers — Each person has a role that has a one-time use ability.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's the simplest design and it's so freaking great
- it's freaking so much fun because it's simple
- it's easy to teach it's fun it's it's silly it's stupid
- oh that sounds ridiculous it is really oh it sounds ridiculous
- the suit of the boss eliminates that power for that round
- was overwhelmed and I I understand that that's part of the reason I want to play with cuz I was overwhelmed trying to play all five at once
- I couldn't see the overall strategy
- I like frost punk
- the Minis they have for the the the player pieces like the characters you play are awesome looking sculpts but I really don't like them because they have other characters on the thing with them
- it's parkour it's zombies with parkour
- capitalism is the worst idea ever but it's the best idea that we have now
- art is art only sounds like a product it isn't because I have discussions with artists a lot
- we are very picky and choosy when it comes to what bothers us and what doesn't
- it's like we all seem to we all want to say oh well you know it's like we need to nobody nobody complains that they're getting a t-shirt for $10 because it's being made in a sweat shop in Malaysia