Game Info
Year
2018
Players
1-7
Age
12+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
3.5/5
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Description
A mini-expansion for Caverna that replaces the basic dwarves with unique playable races each granting special rules and abilities
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Nights Around a Table Unboxing at 1:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting new resources like gem fruits and mushrooms.
- New characters/races with unique rules and abilities add variety.
- Expansion introduces specific buildings that enable diverse strategies.
- The component quality is noted as high, despite the lack of box art.
- Thematic elements like dwarf characters and fantasy races are explored.
Cons
- Lack of pictures on the back of the box makes it hard to understand the game.
- Setup can be time-consuming, a common trait in Uwe Rosenberg games.
- Some buildings rely on gold, which is difficult to acquire in the base game.
Thematic elements
- Dwarves and fantasy elements
Comparison games
- Agricola
- Caverna
- A Feast for Odin
- Electronic Super Joy 1
- Electronic Super Joy 2
- Celeste
- Super Meatboy
- Le Havre
- Root
- Catan
- Trickerion
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- building — Players can furnish their caverns with various buildings, some of which are new in the expansion and offer specific strategic advantages or scoring opportunities.
- Resource Management — Players must manage various resources such as food, wood, stone, gold, ore, rubies, gem fruits, and mushrooms to progress in the game.
- Set Collection — The game includes scoring tiles and buildings that award points or benefits based on specific sets of acquired resources or placed tiles.
- Tile Placement — The game involves placing single and double tiles onto a grid, with different shapes and sizes influencing building placement and area utilization.
- Variable player powers — Players can choose different races or characters, each with unique rules, traits, advantages, and disadvantages.
- Worker Placement — Players have workers that they use to gather resources, gain power, and acquire items, similar to games like Feast for Odin and Agricola.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And i wasn't, because we've got a game that we're going to unbox today.
- If you're big - these are video games - so if you're on Steam and you're big into hardcore twitch fast-paced platformers, like Celeste or Super Meatboy, that's what ESG 2 is all about.
- Mostly. Yeah. But I've played a lot of his other stuff, specifically, his puzzle gardening stuff, and Caverna and A Feast for Odin.
- It's a whole thing.
- So to find out about this game, why don't we consult the back of the box?
- This one, i have no idea, because these games... Lookout Games is the publisher, and they kind of Well, he's really pushing the fantasy.
- It's a pain in the ass as a... as a consumer. I don't know what I'm buying.
- Box Fart-O -Meter: That's a zero. A big goose egg. Nothing.
- Like, that's ridiculous.
- Twelve pages. Not bad. Not a lot of pictures though, eh?
- Yeah, this must have cost a mint to print!
- So the game... we should just mention briefly what the... what the game... what the heck the game is. Caverna: you're... you're a dwarf. Maybe not any more?
- What the heck is a gemfruit?
- Emo miners! "The pa..." Oh, they ARE called "the Pale Ones."
- So you could have two rules, again.
- So does the elf have a disadvantage as well?
- Root, which I know you don't like, but I've been playing a lot of, has this same thing.
- Say the R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E-S word. This is gonna come back to Agricola, isn't it?
- We say "REEzorss!" Americans don't say REEzorss.
- Okay, uh... (laughing) That's fine.
- So gem fruits can be turned into food, but they can also be turned into what looks like a ruby?
- So if I was going to design something that can be turned into both food or a gemfruit, I would call it a "gem fruit."
- Yeah, no. You've got all the meeples that you need.
- Humans ARE claustrophobic.
- Clumsy, incompetent, and... numerous.
- It's funny that not all of the the races... they don't all seem like ones you'd WANT to play...?
- Everyone's deeply flawed, and then, so are the game characters! It's honest. It's honest.
- He loves those Tetris... tetrominoes!
- Oh, they're not Goblins. Yeah, i get it. It starts with "Goblin."
- That Dark Elf is feeling no pain. I've got some dank dark weed!
- So there's just extra tunnels, extra ruby mines, and extra fields.
- As i mentioned in the A Feast for Odin video, Uwe Rosenberg games are not vegan friendly. They REALLY are not.
- So you want to slap it down the middle of your mines, taking up space.
- It's my birthday1 Usually my birthday game, by the way, is Trickerion, but i'm going to be playing Trickerion on Friday.
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Nights Around a Table Rules Teach at 13:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Offers diverse fantasy races with unique mechanics.
- The troll race's ability to eat forbidden items like dogs adds a novel twist.
Cons
- May not appeal to players who prefer the strictness of Agricola.
- Requires physical reconfiguration of the board for different player counts.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Race-Specific Abilities — The expansion introduces different fantasy races with unique abilities and eating requirements.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- when you get to harvest you have to feed all the members of your family and if you don't feed all the members of your family you have to take a begging card
- and that i think is where all the pressure is because like you think man everything's gonna go okay as long as i can just get that read space as long as i can put my family member on there i just get all i need is one read and then it's fine i'll be able to feed my family because of this and that and the other and then some dinkus at the table takes read and it's just like it you just you want to flip the table at that point
- the reason i mentioned uve rosenberg month was i was i said i was going to try to stick some stuff on the calendar what you can count on i'll let you know just verbally what you can look forward to
- i have eyesight problems today i have to confess to you haven't put up my glasses because i wear them so seldom that whenever in the rare cases where i do need to wear them i get headaches from them so i thought i'll just i'll just try to survive but now i'm reading that you have to put put the new family member in your butt
- the problem with agricola is that family member is costing you food right that they're eating food and you have to keep them thriving and surviving they are worth points though at the end of the game
- the campaign in agricola holy crap but beats poppy 17. i'm just gonna say i'm not i'm not saying i'm a better player than bobby but i'm just saying to get 29 points at a gracola
- the trough sounded awesome when it looked like you were going to manage livestock and not cook them all well sure i still want to see a justification for that grocer
- i paid five food for this guy when it should have only been four food for this guy
- and I need to get up to a stone house so that I can do that on these two rounds plow plow you see what I'm saying so so that solves it I need to it's stone house time and I don't have the stone Oh shoot but I'm going to be one stone short if I take it now
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The Broken Meeple Top 50 List at 11:53 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- adds variety and asymmetry to a well-loved base game
- complements the base game's sandbox feel
Cons
- not strictly necessary; could overextend players
Thematic elements
- asymmetric ownership and play styles
- Additional races in the Caverna world
- expansion-driven sandbox growth
Comparison games
- Caverna: Cave Farmers
- Agricola
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric Player Powers — different starting abilities/shapes for players
- Asymmetric powers — different starting abilities/shapes for players
- Compound Scoring — new tracks and scoring paths
- Expanded scoring and integration — new tracks and scoring paths
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's easier to deck build for Marvel and get to the table
- the starter deck gives you a decent amount of chance
- this is my favorite Garfield Games release in the Tigris trilogy
- Whistle Mountain is a really solid worker placement game with a changing board
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