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Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.5/5
Collection
Your Tier
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Grant Lyon Upcoming Games Preview at 8:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging soft-weight mechanism
- Pleasant twist on the split-you-choose mechanic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- fortune/choice-driven card division
- horror-themed card play with drafting
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- I Cut, You Choose — You divide cards and others choose, creating tension and strategic selection.
- Set Collection — Collect cards to gain scoring opportunities.
- Split-you-choose — You divide cards and others choose, creating tension and strategic selection.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love bag building because it always has that fun, exciting tension of like, I hope I get what I need.
- it's a lighter weight, you know, quicker playing game.
- Temple Twist has a table presents for days.
- thematically you are putting together like a table at the lunch cafeteria.
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Grant Lyon Other at 54:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Favorite 'I split, you choose' mechanism
- Tough decision-making
- Interesting sacrifice mechanic for favor
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Inheriting Count Dracula's possessions after his death.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- I split, you choose — Players split cards into groups, and another player chooses which group they want, forcing strategic division of desirable cards.
- resource sacrifice — Players can sacrifice cards to gain 'Dracula's favor,' which is an important aspect of winning.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards to form sets as part of the game's objective.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a deck-building game.
- one of the interesting aspects of this is there's 13 ways to win the game.
- Essentially, 13 dark pacts in the game and each of those dark pacts is a unique win condition that feels, you know, it feels like crazy to get.
- You can also play two times and three times multipliers on those cards to double every aspect of the card.
- that just feels like a very satisfying aspect of the game.
- the main mechanism of the game is I split, you choose and that's always one of my favorite mechanisms because it's it's not a difficult game to teach, but it's a difficult game to make decisions.
- So, what do you sacrifice and what do you keep is also an interesting aspect of that one.
- This is a great family game if you want to.
- And so, there's a lot of lying and promising of other people where you're like, "Do you want to go there with me? Nobody else go there.
- I swear to god, don't go there."
- And so, there's a lot of sort of lying and intrigue and where you're going and promises that you're making and stuff like that.
- please, you know, check out my new series. It's all funny and games when it drops in May.
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The Dice Tower Review at 0:11 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Modern take on 'I split you choose' mechanism
- Tongue-in-cheek theme helps it get to the table
- Good cadence with six rounds
- Solid game
- Nice novelty
- Good October/Halloween game
Cons
- Box size and shape is not ideal
- Demands a lot of table space
- Slightly rough around the edges, could have been streamlined
- Might be too many special abilities
- Mixed reception, will appeal to some and turn others off
- May not be ideal for larger groups due to table space
- The process of sorting and getting ready for the next phase feels a bit clutchy
Thematic elements
- Dracula and splitting his stuff after he died
Comparison games
- Sushi Go!
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Scoring involves comparing symbols across cards to determine who has the most, earning victory points and sacrifices.
- Drafting — The game is compared to Sushi Go! and involves drafting cards.
- End game scoring — Victory points are awarded at the end of the game based on collected sets, curio cards, and specific scoring opportunities.
- sacrifice — Players can choose to sacrifice a card for favor scoring or to get rid of negative points, which triggers certain card effects like blood vials.
- Set Collection — Players try to collect sets of cards to gain victory points.
- split you choose — A core mechanism where players split cards into offers, and others choose from them, with unchosen cards returning. It involves splitting and choosing phases.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It fits their other games in this box and no one else's games, which isn't great.
- This is a game about Dracula and he's dead. He did not leave a will, so you're splitting his stuff. Right.
- Thematically, this is a sillier take of sorts on Dracula. Not super silly, but like he has vials of health things blood. He has vials of blood from famous characters. And authors. And authors, and like just sort of historical figures, which is funny. The whole thing is very light uh in in it's tongue-in-cheek, which is good, because it could be dark, but I like that the the the way they're going here is that it's silly.
- It does demand a lot of table space.
- It really is a game that's pretty simple, but the I split you choose is simplest part of it.
- It's a slight step up from that. And part of the reason I say that is because it's a hard time keeping track of all the different things going on.
- I think the tongue-in-cheek theme is going to help you get this game back to the table.
- There might be just a little too much. There might be too many special abilities. Those could have been dialed back a little.
- It's going to be tough to get this one to stand out in the crowd to per se.
- It's not like a strong seven, but it is there.
- But it is a solid game that uses that I split you choose mechanism, which frankly isn't used in nothing games. And so, I enjoy this one. It's a nice novelty.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 0:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- neat abilities built into the splitting itself
- nice back and forth play
Cons
- table hog
- cadence of the game to be a little iffy
Thematic elements
- divvying up Dracula's goodies from his castle after he is deceased
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Powers — Some of the cards are going to have powers that go off once when you sort of tuck them away under a you know, a tile that you have.
- split you choose — a nice split you choose game
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And that is what I reviewed this week.
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vasel and welcome to week in review.
- Here's what I reviewed last week.
- This one loses the charm of the original one being in an incredibly tiny box and there being a very interesting game in there.
- The game is peak Zombicide with a lot of streamlined rules, a lot of interesting captivating choices for the players.
- And if you like DC and I don't think you should play this if you actively dislike DC, then I think you're going to have a fantastic time with this one.
- It is extremely thematic to that experience without I don't with I don't think being like bothersome thematically, but that's up to you.
- there are a lot of uncomfortable topics in there, but it's it is amazing how just immersive it is because of that discomfort.
- If you don't want to feel that, don't get the game.
- This week was deceased uh Gotham City outbreak.
- This is a small retail version of the larger deceased that's coming out with little standees.
- So first up we have Overparked from designer Daryl Chow.
- This is a really cool game with a very wacky theme of an alternate reality South Korea where you are a presidential candidate.
- We played Star Wars Queen's Gambit.
- we reviewed Queen's Dilemma.
- Man, I wanted to like this game so much.
- it's way way way way way way way way too long and way way way way way too fiddly for the amount of fun it gives.
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