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2015
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Description
Circle of Life, Winner of the Mind Sports Olympiad's Game of the Year award, and winner of the Best Combinatorial Game Award, is a strategy game where players evolve species to eat each other in a growing ecosystem.
Despite 1-minute rules, the game recreates key aspects of real ecosystems:
It starts with simple species, which evolve to become more diverse and complex.
Species get more complex as you go up the food chain.
Simple species reproduce, die, and evolve at higher rates than more complex ones.
When a species' population is high, another species often evolves to eat it.
When a critter at the top of the food chain dies, it feeds back into the bottom, to complete the Circle of Life.
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Sir Thecos Top List at 16:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- worked pretty well
- quite thinky
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- abstract
- abstract
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- rock paper scissors — you have like specific shapes and these shapes like overpower other shapes right there's always always one shape that beats another shape
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Quotes (from this video)
- this one is an abstract game that actually worked pretty well
- oh boy oh boy this is a game I don't have to think about it I I I could even think about giving it lower than a d but I will give it a d now
- the design doesn't work at all it's so specific there's like so much text on the cards it's i' I've I've never seen cards like that
- this is we have the suspicion that this is AI generated or at least some of it uh like what the regarding the rules in the design because wow this is really cumbersome
- it's a solid game this is like a game that is has a cool premise it works very well but it's nothing special but still I keep coming back to it because the Bame Marina implementation is so great
- Kaber of course uh this needs to be an S tier because it's my top three game in both my list solo and general
- Secret identity I will also give an a yeah it works really well
- it's very very tough but I like it it's always fun
- very good Abra game I can just I just recomend can recommend that to pretty much everyone
- Not turn I just reviewed on my channel uh I like this game I will give this a B I think B is fine uh it's a good game it has a very interesting Bing mechanism and a it has a few mechanisms that are very unique
- Missana uh I'm still really torn now that I played the cave of Gins which is really good um I might rank this higher I would also give this a B I don't know this game I think this game like will become even better like when you have more expansions right the base game is okay it's fine probably just a b Toc
- just one srank one of the best party games out there definitely srank uh I always like to pull it out it's one of my most favorite party games
- K grip also clear srank let me just put it up here clear srank game is one of my most most favorite portable solo games ever
- Kites Kites I will give a H A or B uh it's a very good game but I think I will give it a b it's also like a fun time you play like one two three four games and then you're over it and then you don't want to play it for a few weeks right at least that's how I feel but every time I pull it out it's very very fun I like it
- fun facts also clear S rank I like this a little bit more than just one uh but they're both incredible party games so definitely also S rank
- belati um a game that is not very well known I think internationally but a very cool deduction party game I also have to give this an S it's always a fun time like really really fun party games
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Sir Thecos Top List at 16:50 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- fun time because it was really funny
Cons
- didn't work at all
- too much text on cards
- cumbersome
- took ages to play
Thematic elements
- animals
- Savannah
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — you have cards and you you have a hand of cards and you're putting them like uh on the like in the middle of the table you have like a line of animals and then you put your card on the right and then this car tells you like uh which kinds of animals it eats and which ones it just uh just scares away
- Set Collection — so it's like a set collection game with a Twist
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Quotes (from this video)
- this one is an abstract game that actually worked pretty well
- oh boy oh boy this is a game I don't have to think about it I I I could even think about giving it lower than a d but I will give it a d now
- the design doesn't work at all it's so specific there's like so much text on the cards it's i' I've I've never seen cards like that
- this is we have the suspicion that this is AI generated or at least some of it uh like what the regarding the rules in the design because wow this is really cumbersome
- it's a solid game this is like a game that is has a cool premise it works very well but it's nothing special but still I keep coming back to it because the Bame Marina implementation is so great
- Kaber of course uh this needs to be an S tier because it's my top three game in both my list solo and general
- Secret identity I will also give an a yeah it works really well
- it's very very tough but I like it it's always fun
- very good Abra game I can just I just recomend can recommend that to pretty much everyone
- Not turn I just reviewed on my channel uh I like this game I will give this a B I think B is fine uh it's a good game it has a very interesting Bing mechanism and a it has a few mechanisms that are very unique
- Missana uh I'm still really torn now that I played the cave of Gins which is really good um I might rank this higher I would also give this a B I don't know this game I think this game like will become even better like when you have more expansions right the base game is okay it's fine probably just a b Toc
- just one srank one of the best party games out there definitely srank uh I always like to pull it out it's one of my most favorite party games
- K grip also clear srank let me just put it up here clear srank game is one of my most most favorite portable solo games ever
- Kites Kites I will give a H A or B uh it's a very good game but I think I will give it a b it's also like a fun time you play like one two three four games and then you're over it and then you don't want to play it for a few weeks right at least that's how I feel but every time I pull it out it's very very fun I like it
- fun facts also clear S rank I like this a little bit more than just one uh but they're both incredible party games so definitely also S rank
- belati um a game that is not very well known I think internationally but a very cool deduction party game I also have to give this an S it's always a fun time like really really fun party games
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