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Smart and quick Halloween game. Send kids to right houses to collect the best candies. But don't get scared by the ghosts!
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Candy Hunters:
- tactical abstract strategy game
- create patterns on the board, score points for the pattern cards
- use ghosts to optimally position your markers and to mess with opponents
Your main goal is to place tiles of houses to build specific pattern and get points. Having your kids on the tile included in the pattern gets you candies and removes that tiles from the neighborhood.
There are also ghost that can scare kids and move them to adjacent tiles. It can ruin your plan or... help you! Try to manipulate ghosts at your advantage.
- Lovely little spatial game
- Appeals to solo gamers who enjoy spatial puzzles or pattern building
- Charming
- Interesting for those who like pattern lovers
- The reviewer personally likes Ether more than Candy Hunters.
- Collecting candy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players can place their player marks on empty tiles to claim locations and potentially steal candy.
- Movement — Players move ghosts around the tableau and can move their own player mark.
- pattern matching — Players try to match a sequence of patterns based on cards in their hand.
- scoring — Scoring is based on matching patterns, collecting candies, and avoiding negative points from ghosts.
- Set Collection — Players grab various types of candy, with points awarded for unique candies and additional candies.
- solo mode — Features 'Candy Hunter Puzzlers' for solo players involving spatial recognition and escalating challenges.
- Tile Placement — Players add tiles to a little tableau.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is not a sponsored video.
- Smart Flamingo Games, and they are exactly what the publishers's name implies. very interesting, very approachable, smart, thinky puzzle style games.
- I will leave a link in the top of the video description to swing over to GameFound to support this publisher.
- This is a small indie publisher who's putting out good work, self-designed products and uh doing their darnest.
- If you've got the extra time, the games look interesting, and you want to support the uh people who crowdfunding platforms were invented for, made for, designed for, swim over there and support Smart Flamingo.
- Connect for tic-tac-toe, but with minions, a little bit of area control, and some ruthless powers. It's just that much better.
- Should really title this video like Blood Rage meets Tic Tac. Something like that. I'm not going to do that, but I should. I really should.