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2023
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Description
Cursed!? is a quick, solo, push your luck, fantasy themed game.
You have been cursed by a witch and the only way to get it lifted is to take on nearby monsters in the dark forest and gather some souls for the witch so she can complete her ritual and lift the curse on you.
The curse causes everything you touch to turn to ash so you have to use weapon and items you find on long dead adventurers. This means every weapon and item you get is random and you have to make the best of what you draw. Due to the push your luck nature of the game the items you can find are extremely powerful when used at opportune times and help mitigate a bad weapon draw or a monster with a nasty trait.
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Sir Thecos Rules Teach at 0:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really cool quick solo push your luck game.
- Works really well.
- Can be played in 3-5 minutes.
- Doesn't take a lot of table space.
- Good for travel.
Cons
- Initially seemed a bit weird and too luck-driven.
Thematic elements
- capturing the souls of eight monsters to lift a curse
- forest
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players manage their hand of cards to find weapons and items to defeat monsters, and can shuffle discard piles back into their draw pile using items.
- Multi-Use Cards — Cards can be used as monsters (with strength and abilities) or as weapons/items when flipped.
- Push Your Luck — Players draw cards to defeat monsters, aiming to get as close to the monster's strength as possible without going over, with the risk of losing life if they exceed it or discard too many cards.
- Set Collection — The objective is to defeat a set number of eight monsters.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is actually a solo push your luck game that has like a little bit of like this gambling blackjack kind of vibe to it.
- It is like a lot of push your luck, but it's push your luck that works really well.
- If I can turn this into an inhand card game, this could become one of my go-to travel games.
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Sir Thecos Top List at 1:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- really really good game
Cons
- very basic
- very simple in terms of strategy
- very luck based
Thematic elements
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Quotes (from this video)
- Count of the Nine Estates. Um, a game people keep suggesting to me and I've played it over the years off and on and I think it's not bad.
- Distilled clear Srank. It's such an amazing game. I absolutely love this.
- Draftosarus, also the game I very much enjoy. I will give this an A. S would be too much, but it's such a cute and nice uh drafting game.
- Cluster. Uh you have um a circle made of like a rope like a ropes circle rope circle so to speak and everybody gets like the same number of magnets and you put the magnets in the middle and when you put down your last magnet you win.
- Exobase also a game that I will bring a video to you at some point.
- Magic Keys in English. I think um this is like a children game actually. It's a children's game, but we play like with like I think we were like four adults playing that.
- Malus Hotos. I just released a preview video for that for the Kickstarter campaign and I enjoyed this game a lot.
- Micro City is a pretty decent game in a small box. Um, but it's also nothing all too amazing, right?
- Reforest clear as this is an absolutely amazing game.
- Sally Face Strange Nightmares uh for the video game uh Sally Face and I found this game quite decent actually.
- Stone Spine Architects uh in the roleplayer universe. And I like this a lot. I will give this an A.
- Switch and signal. I'm a little conflicted on that one.
- Yatsi. Yeah, this is like a guilty pleasure, right? We all know it's not an amazing game, but Yatsi is the basis for like a lot of other games with this mechanism of rolling your like rolling your dice and then being able to reroll some of them twice.
- Buds and Blooms from Mark Tuck. Also a game that I enjoyed playing.
- And actually, you know what? I'm actually missing one game. I also played Wingspan.
- Wingspan would also be an S of course and would be up here.
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Tabletop Tokki Playthrough at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Compact, travel-friendly tin with minimal components, ideal for on-the-go gaming
- Tight solo puzzle with meaningful, snap decisions rather than rote luck
- Accessible entry point for beginners and a compelling intro to solo gaming
- Thematic art style and old-fashioned fantasy vibe strongly complement the gameplay
Cons
- Luck-based elements can still dominate certain runs, depending on draw order
- Small deck size may lead to repetitive cycles or reduced variance over long sessions
- Component count is intentionally sparse, which may feel limiting for players seeking more depth or expansion potential
Thematic elements
- Curse, monster combat, soul harvesting, magical artifacts, witchcraft, and a fairy-tale fantasy atmosphere
- A fantasy dungeon-crawl where the player is trapped in a cursed scenario devised by an evil witch. The narrative centers on battling monsters, extracting their souls, and collecting treasures as a means to lift the curse.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-driven combat — Players flip and resolve attack cards drawn from their deck, using weapon values to reduce a monster's Health. The outcome hinges on the interaction of weapon values, monster Health, and any item modifiers.
- Deck/hand management — Damage is applied by playing cards from your hand; when damage would exceed a monster's Health, the excess cards are discarded. After defeating a monster, the top cards from the deck are discarded to align with the remaining Health deficit, affecting future options.
- Push Your Luck — Key moments require deciding whether to push luck with weapons and items to maximize damage while risking greater self-damage or card depletion.
- Push-your-luck decisions — Key moments require deciding whether to push luck with weapons and items to maximize damage while risking greater self-damage or card depletion.
- Resource Management — Health and deck resources are constrained, forcing players to balance healing, card usage, and the timing of item activation.
- Treasure and Soul collection — Defeated monsters may yield treasures and Souls. Souls and Soul Crystals influence subsequent encounters and can alter attack dynamics or defensive options.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is a solo playthrough of cursed
- we're going to be collecting monster souls in order to lift the curse that's been placed on us by the evil witch
- I think this would be a great introduction into solo gaming
- this would be a perfect travel game
- the aesthetic is really charming and illustrative
- old fantasy story book vibe fits great with the theme
- you could even probably more or less play this one kind of in hand if you get creative with how you lay down cards
- there aren't a lot of components to keep track of or anything like that
- this is just a really really fun one with some exciting turns at every step
- I really love this game
- the fact that it comes in an actual tin is just fantastic you can play it on the go
- I would recommend for solo Gamers for people who enjoy board games and maybe just want a little solo puzzle on the side
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