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Consumption

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After the death of a local historian, adventurers discover that no one is safe within the walls of Hillsfar. Will you they able to stop the culprits before the city is consumed from within?

A Four-Hour Adventure for Tier 2 Characters. Optimized for APL 8.

Description

Publisher's blurb:

After the death of a local historian, adventurers discover that no one is safe within the walls of Hillsfar. Will you they able to stop the culprits before the city is consumed from within?

A Four-Hour Adventure for Tier 2 Characters. Optimized for APL 8.

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Video kzBvVLmBGOg Hungry Gamer Analysis at 20:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Extremely positive, highlighting its unique and satisfying puzzle nature.
Pros
  • Exceptional gameplay
  • Plays very fast when players know the rules
  • Clever and fascinating
  • Satisfying puzzle
  • Wonderful and unique
Cons
  • Theme of balancing diet might not sound fun initially
  • Large number of resources can be daunting
Thematic elements
  • Balancing diet
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — Players make choices that impact their diet balance.
  • Resource Management — Involves managing a large number of different resources related to food and diet.
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  • if you took Sudoku and made it a board game with a little bit of adventure in it.
  • This is an intensely clever game.
  • It's super clever.
  • Small game, quick filler, It's right up there with Mouse, Cheesecat, Cucumber for me.
  • This is a bidding game where each of your different skyscrapers on this flying island has a different number on the bottom
  • And the thing with this game is it's easy to teach. It's quick to play. And it is beautiful. Just beautiful.
  • But it is exceptional.
  • this is a crisis management game that has a little bit of RPG leveling up, a whole bunch of worker placement, and as I said, crisis management, and you're chucking some dice to do some fighting and all those kinds of things.
  • This is to me my handsdown favorite deck builder out there. Period. I adore it.
  • It's a dice placement game and I I loved it.
  • It's just super asymmetric, which has that moment of, you know, some people don't know what you're doing, so maybe they don't know if you're cheating or breaking the rules or whatever it is.
  • This is based on Dante's Inferno. The game's called Inferno, which is a very cool theme to me.
  • And just it's a heavy game.
  • In fact, I think this is the absolute top limit of how heavy a Euro game can be and I still would be interested in playing it regularly.
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