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2021
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Description
Chronicles of Avel is a cooperative board game for the whole family. Take the role of brave heroes and heroines with a mission to save your magical land.
Create your character and give them a unique name. Get your equipment, upgrade it and prepare for battle. But remember to wisely choose what you carry as your backpack has limited space. Armed and ready, explore the land in search of adventure and fortune.
Answer the Queen’s call and fight together against the servants of the Black Moon. Defend the castle, banish the Beast, and save Avel!
In Chronicles of Avel players will be exploring the world of Avel, moving on a modular board created from hexagonal tiles (different every time). On their journey they will encounter dangerous monsters to fight and roll dice to determine success. Each victory leads to a prize - new weapon, armor, potions and gold - which will make heroes more powerful and unstoppable. But to earn equipment players will have to search through magical bag and choose using only their sense of touch. Victory awaits for those who will cooperate, prepare themselves and defeat the Beast and all his servants.
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Top List at 20:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Fun and satisfying character progression
- Replayable due to modular board
- Not overly complicated
- Good for families
Cons
- Doesn't do anything wildly different from other games
- Includes luck through dice rolling
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Castle Panic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character advancement — you are doing it by leveling up your character in a really fun way. You have these dual layered boards, and you can literally get items and put it on your character. You can get a helmet, you can get a weapon, you can get a you know, and you are putting these pieces and just sort of leveling up your character
- Dice rolling — There is some element of dice rolling in the game when you are fighting stuff, so that, you know, there's a little bit of luck there
- Modular board — it's also like a a board made up of different hexes, so the board is going to be different all the time
- Monster Elimination — you just want to kind of run around the board, level up, and fight monsters without getting like too complicated
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Quotes (from this video)
- These are my top 10 cooperative board games of all time.
- I promised you that I would do a top 10 of all time video each month this year and I am delivering on that promise.
- For the past year, I've been shooting a series of professional comedians playing different board games and I plan to release that series soon.
- Number five on my list is the party game So Clover.
- Number four on my list is the game Chronicles of Avel.
- Number three on my list of top 10 cooperative games is the game The Gang.
- Number two on my list is The Lord of the Rings trick taking game, The Fellowship of the Ring.
- And then my number one cooperative game of all time is a little bit of cheating, because it's mostly a cooperative game, but there is a hidden traitor in your midst, and that is the game Obscurio.
- There are a lot more that I considered for this list, you know.
- I hope you're liking them as well. Thank you so much for being here.
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Top List at 1:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great family game
- Fully cooperative
- Fun character customization
- Visually appealing art and components
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- epic quest
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- character customization — Players can customize their characters.
- cooperative play — The game is fully cooperative, allowing players to work together.
- Gear Upgrading — Players can upgrade their gear.
- Tile exploration — Players explore by placing and moving across tiles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, by this I specifically mean these are games that are not campaign games and these are games where I feel like I'm going on an adventure.
- Um, hopefully with some variability, but not a campaign game, not a game where you have persistent elements continuing from session to session.
- And really crucially, I I do want to stress the idea that I want to feel like I'm going on an adventure.
- It means that you can let players feel powerful rather quickly.
- Um, go from from zero to hero rather quickly, weak to strong in a single session in these oneshot adventure games.
- It's murky whether you're a hero or not, but it's clear as day that fun will be had on this adventure.
- I was much more interested in the story I was telling than
- At number two, we have Clank. And it's various iterations, but I still go back to the classic Clank.
- I like having the board in Clank where in this deck building adventure, you venture down into a dungeon, following different paths and collecting artifacts, collecting tokens, trying to score as many points, and trying to run back out of that dungeon before the dragon eats me.
- At number one, I am going to pick a Stommyer game. I'm going to pick Vantage here because I designed Vantage.
- I wanted players to be able to sit down, crash on the Vantage planet, go on an adventure, and then clean it up and have a completely new adventure.
- Vantage gives you essentially around 7,000 different choices that you can make throughout the game. I tried to make it a big enough world that no adventure is the same.
- Scythe, you know, I thought about putting Scythe on this list because Scythe is a little bit a style of adventure game along the lines of a Clank or The Witcher, u maybe Western Legends, but Scythe leans a lot more into the engine building and kind of the empire building elements, uh, the optimization puzzle, um, than it is about just one character going on an adventure.
- So, I I didn't think it quite fit into this category of adventure game.
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Peaky Boardgamer Rules Teach at 0:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Family-friendly and cooperative
- Kid-friendly with simplified mechanics
- Engaging story and world-building
- Accessible setup and clear visuals
- Appeals to both kids and older players
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- heroic cooperative exploration and defense of a fragile city
- City of Avel in a fantasy world with a looming Beast threat
Comparison games
- Chronicles of Apple
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to defend the city and defeat monsters.
- Dice-based combat — Unique dice with attack, defense, and spell sides used in battles.
- Equipment management — Gaining, equipping, and managing equipment in a backpack with a timed draw.
- monster and beast tokens — Monsters placed on map; Beast movement and traps create hazards.
- rest and heal — Players can rest to recover toughness, with restrictions during battles.
- round-based progression with Astrolabe — Astrolabe marker tracks rounds; endgame triggers Beast summoning.
- tile actions and map exploration — Hidden map tiles; tiles provide actions; exploration reveals monsters.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a family cooperative game for up to four players that plays in under an hour.
- It has many great aspects to draw the kid's attention into the game.
- The Healing Jewel, which is kept within the city of Avel, is in danger.
- Older players will feel the excitement and the great experience this game gets to offer.
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