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Button Kingdoms is a bribery based deck building game, with simultaneous actions where players take on the role of child commanders of their own fantasy stuffed animal armies.
The goal of the game is to build up your kingdom of fluffy fighters by collecting currency in the form of buttons, and to seize the thrones of other players… while staying true to your character's own secret motivations.
During the Button Bazaar phase, players place bribe offers in the hopes of adding fluffy fighters to their deck, and accept the bribes of their opponents to acquire those precious buttons which become victory points at the end of the game. After this market phase is resolved, players turn their newly acquired cards against their opponents in the goal of seizing another throne to add to their dominion.
Victory will rest on three separate pillars: total BUTTONS, THRONES in your possession, and how well your deck of cards measures up to your champion’s IDEALS. Even if you fall behind in the combat aspect of the game, with skillful deck building and solid deal-making, you could still net the win.
Do you have what it takes to conquer the Button Kingdoms?
- Very fun and engaging gameplay
- Unique bidding mechanic
- Successful crowdfunding campaign on second attempt
- Recommended for demo at Gen Con
- Did not fund on its first campaign
- Attacking bases, earning buttons
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players attack each other's bases.
- bidding — Players engage in blind secret bids.
- Deck Building — It is a deck builder.
Video topics + discussion points
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- it's being sort of talked about like the Splendor killer.
- This is really gorgeous art. It looks really thoughtful, really um really beautifully crafted um with a similar sort of Splender style gameplay.
- you can't talk to each other about the cards you have.
- Specific player count games, are always very interesting to me because it's a big swing for a publisher to publish a threeplayeron game is a risk.
- Phantom Inc., full disclosure, is a game that I did work on. Uh, it is my favorite of the team-based party word games. I think it is a phenomenal game.
- So, it's a really neat push your luck game. What the really cool twist is if you have an odd number of fruit in your hand up to five, you can you must sell all of them.
- It's got dinos, so I think it's going to be a really good seller uh for um I think it's three three WS games.
- I have I have everything wingspan and it's too much. It's objectively too much.
- Hard. Not interested. Three boxes to play one game. No.
- Michelle and I have played Ma Jong every night for the last two weeks. It's been incredible.
- it's a meaningful game beyond just a surface level, right? So, it's very cool to see younger generations getting back into it to keep that tradition alive.