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Hot rain falls down upon a cold, rotting city. Here the Yugai, a species of militant humanoids, leave the survivors of the worlds they have ransacked and destroyed. It is a prison and a work camp, a place for those who lived through Yugai invasion to live out their remaining years as slaves. This is Gatorum, the City of Remnants.
In City of Remnants, players take on the roles of gang leaders, each one with unique qualities and motivations. Players will struggle to control the city, but only the winner can decide the city's future. Many paths to victory lie before you. Bid for gang members who provide a variety of shady skills. Get an edge with weapons and other sundries from the black market. Build districts that can provide you with advantages, production and income, but beware because a greedy opponent might sweep in and take over the work of your own hands.
City of Remnants combines strong resource management, auction, and conversion mechanisms with spatial tactics, assymetric player powers, area control and direct conflict. A variety of tools, different every game, are at your disposal to build up your gang and claim the city for yourself. But watch out for the Yugai police force, who will meddle with everyone's plans!
- Instructional video partnership helps support the show and introduce the game.
- Components include miniatures, tiles, tokens, dice, and cards.
- Board has different sides for different player counts.
- Development tiles have matching cards with special abilities.
- Black market cards add unique abilities to decks.
- Yu Guy control units add another layer of challenge beyond rival gangs.
- Miniatures are detailed for their size.
- Gangs fighting for resources in captivity
- Harsh refugee worlds
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players develop parts of the game board by placing tiles, and when they control these tiles, they yield renown.
- bidding — Players recruit new gang members by trying to outbid and vie for control of them from other players.
- Combat — Gang members are used to do battle with other rival gangs.
- Deck building — Players add new gang member cards to their deck during gameplay, giving them further unique abilities.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Now, normally in our series we take a game, we show you how to play it, and then over the following episodes, we'll actually play the game, and then between episodes invite you to play along with us, help us make gameplay decisions.
- Now, this video is going to be a little bit different because we're going to be partnering with Plaid Hat Games once again to produce an instructional video for one of their upcoming games.
- Now, the game in question is City of Remnants.
- And so, you'll win the game if you can become a gang leader to lead your gang to the highest level of prominence and renown.
- The spaces on the fringe of the board represent the slums or least desirable locations.
- And as you move to the center, the spaces become more valuable and riskier.
- Over the course of the game, you'll be able to develop parts of the game board, placing tiles on them.
- And when you control these tiles, they will yield you renown, which you need to win the game.
- There are also black market cards, which players will be able to buy to add to their deck during gameplay, giving that player further unique things that they can do on their turns.
- Will this be a game for you? Well, that's something you're going to have to decide.
- Until the next episode, everyone. Thanks for watching.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- game has a nice mix of mechanics from deck building to area control and city building allinone
- we really enjoyed this one at four players
- it's getting eight City districts out of 10
- has a nice art and good production quality
- City of remnants but once you play a few rounds you get the hang of it
- lots of player interactions from battles in the streets to bidding wars