Game Info
Year
2000
Players
1-6
Age
11+
Playtime
45 min
Collection
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Description
In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art (at the moment just before history records their destruction), coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. How would the timeline be different if Lincoln and JFK had not been assassinated? And is that the version of reality that you came from originally...the one you must return to in order to win? It's all packed into a fast and easy Fluxx-style card game that will take you to the beginning of time and back again.
Chrononauts Family
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Video 5GhhZ1_XBMw
JestaThaRogue Top List at 7:05 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81371 · mention_pk 201623
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- playful alternate history
- seeing how strange history can get
- flux fun factor
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- playful alternate history
- the 20th century timeline
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card game — It's a card game about altering historical events.
- paradox management — When an event changes, it can affect several other points in history, creating paradoxes that must be repaired before the timeline collapses.
- secret goals — Each player also has a secret goal, representing the alternate reality they're trying to create.
- Timeline Manipulation — Players are time travelers jumping through the timeline of the 20th century, deliberately changing historical events to reshape reality.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Let me know what you think of these five time travel board games in the comments below.
- Necessity is the mother of invention, but invention is also the mother of invention.
- It's the heaviest game on the list, and it's also the most timey-wimey brain-burning.
- So you create a paradox.
- It's rated as the top 100 games of all time.
- Get it? Future.
- It sounds like a head-scratcher, like that tri-dimensional chess on Star Trek.
- It's chaotic, silly, and all about seeing how strange history can get when everyone is meddling with it.
- Everyone hates Bob.
- It's essentially a cop investigation where every reset makes you a little smarter about what you're going to do next time.
- I haven't played Temporum. Never heard of it. Stick a look on BGG.
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Video IsbEJRRntQc
The Dice Tower Analysis at 7:06 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 80528 · mention_pk 196151
Click to watch at 7:06 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- really love the idea of this one
- like that concept a lot
- concept's really cool
Cons
- don't have Chrono Nots rated very highly
- plays like Flux
Thematic elements
- Time travel
- Changing things in time affects history
Comparison games
- Flux
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Time travel — for time travel games, I really love the idea of this one where changing things in time.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we have a game here called Sequoia. This is from 2022.
- It's It's fine. I'm giving it a six. Uh Beasty Bars is is is a fun style game where you're playing these different type of animals, and I think each additional expansion made it more complex and less fun.
- Trias is an old dinosaur game that originally came with cubes, and eventually they had little dinosaurs in it instead. And it's kind of grow out to different things. This is a very I have this ranked as a seven. Probably now, the next time I go through my rankings, I'll probably rank it as a six because it's fine, but it's showing its age.
- All righty, of all the games we talked about today, my favorite here is clearly David Goliath, although Hooky is a very close second.
- Either way, it's always good to talk to you all.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 0:49 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 80049 · mention_pk 194202
Click to watch at 0:49 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Has a lot of fun with time travel
- Interesting concept with lynchpin cards that alter history
- Concept is a lot of fun
Cons
- Don't particularly love it as a game
- Simple win condition (collect three things)
- Original version is the most interesting
Thematic elements
- Time travel
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card flipping — Cards can be flipped over to change historical outcomes, impacting other events in the game.
- Set Collection — The win condition involves collecting three specific items.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Time travel is pretty much impossible to do properly.
- You just have to kind of ignore those flaws and just go with it.
- And the same thing is with board game. How do you make a time travel board game?
- Time travel is just debt time travel.
- It's really interesting how much time you're spending.
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