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Year
2017
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Description
Café Fatal is a lively dice game that lets players go toe-to-toe with each other as everyone is trying to complete their sets and collect big points.
The aim of the game is to collect as many high-scoring delicacies as possible. These can be found on tables, which the players try to call dibs on. When it is your turn, you place all the dice of one value on one of the tables. You can either add them to dice that you already placed or put them on a neighboring table. At the end of a round, more dice beat fewer dice and more pips beat fewer pips.
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Cute theme.
- Interesting starting position rule and adjacent placement strategy.
- Clever touches make it interesting.
- Nice artwork and theme.
- The reviewer enjoys playing it and will keep it for now.
Cons
- Less tension and fewer exciting moments than Las Vegas.
- Gameplay can feel similar each time, leading to a 'bash the leader' dynamic.
- Small and fiddly components; box size is too large.
- The reviewer is on the fence about whether it's better than Las Vegas.
Thematic elements
- Collecting cheese, pizza, and cake at restaurant tables
- A cafe
Comparison games
- Las Vegas
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Players compete for majority placement of their dice on restaurant tables to win the associated food items.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice and use the numbers to claim restaurant tables.
- Set Collection — Collecting complete sets of cheese, pizza, or cake doubles their point value.
- Tile Placement — Restaurant tables are represented by tiles where dice are placed.
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Quotes (from this video)
- if you don't know I am a sleeving addict which is something I'm not necessarily that proud of
- the cards are sleeved and I do it because I like shuffling with premium sleeves I play a lot in pubs where the tables are really sticky
- I found that they're really well made they shuffle nicely and the benefit really is that you're getting more of them so there's 55 cut sleeves in a pack rather than 50
- I think that for an abstract game it's got a surprising amount of theme a really refreshing amount of theme
- it's very mean and the more players you play with people are going to really struggle it's about blocking off other people
- I think that that works really nicely and I think that a lot of people are going to enjoy that
- I've actually found that people sit down to play this game and they see the pieces and they start stacking them and that the drafting and those extra elements they just slow down getting to the excitement
- it's a dexterity euro game it's perfect for people that like doing their own thing they're all about points and strategizing
- I think the meeple circus is a good dexterity game for me it's not a great one it comes in a box it's far too big for the components that are in it
- there's still moments of fighting it out in cafe fatale there's probably less so than in Las Vegas so I think there's less tension and there's less exciting moments
- it's a very simple rule system and yet there's just these little clever touches to cafe fatale that make it interesting
- this was our favorite one it it plays really quickly and we just went straight back into it because it was like people get so frustrated with themselves that they want to go and try again
- I do like that there's a rule where if you shout out the wrong thing you get punished the other person gets the points for that round and they get more points so you really encouraged not to make a mistake and of course you ultimately will
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