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2025
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Description
The city is crawling with monsters and criminals. Recruit the best into your gang to complete the biggest heists and get away clean.
Dark Heists is a game of deck building and heists with crooked cops, horrific monsters and other criminals.
Your deck is your gang, and you recruit more scoundrels from the streets, and do larceny for coin. you are preparing your crew to do the big jobs, the heists.
Heists challenge your entire crew, requiring you to draw multiple hands and meeting thematic challenges by amassing more crime or sway in your hand, than the challenge threshold. Want zombie minions to terrify the people? generate 7 Sway. Want to kill the vampire? Generate 9 Crime.
The game ends when one player completes three heists.
The player with the most notoriety, gained from heists, coins and recruits, wins.
—description from THE designer
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Stonemaier Games Review at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever mechanism where 'bad' cards can be conditionally good.
- Thematic and story-driven steps for heists.
- Multiple tipping points/payoffs instead of a single one.
- Making progress on heists even if not fully completed.
- Game scratches the heist itch well.
Cons
- Receiving 'heat' cards upon failing a heist step.
Thematic elements
- Heist, with a spooky, slightly fantasy theme involving monsters and ghosts.
Comparison games
- Dominion
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- deck-building — Players put their crew together through a deck-building mechanism, adding different cards that might hurt you by default but can get better based on other cards played.
- Heist execution — Players can choose to use a turn to go on a heist instead of building their deck, which involves a sequence of steps using card icons and resources.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I would say this game mostly scratches that itch pretty darn well.
- the standout feature of the game even though there are a few other things including what I just mentioned that bad cards can be conditionally good for you in this game if you like.
- It's not about the points, it's about uh these heists that you're trying to accomplish, which are worth points, but uh it does this three times throughout the game.
- I think that is really clever. This idea that you are having these you're building up to these three different payoffs throughout the game.
- Really clever system here in Dark Heist.
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Stonemaier Games Discussion at 8:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Delightful time playing with the designer
- The designer was kind enough to teach the game
- Played with the designer
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think Scythe is the the cover for Scythe I think really captured people's imaginations in a way that is rare for game in general.
- And honestly, I think I think if Tapestry had been had had released a little earlier in Stonemaier's uh existence, I think it would be of magnitudes a best-selling game.
- It was my gateway game to games beyond Telestrations and Codenames, and I've never looked back.
- Can we know more about the Scythe versus Expeditions dueling game?
- I am planning to do a blog post about moderation policies online.
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Neon Gorilla Analysis at 3:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging theme with heists like 'the vampire hit', 'resurrecting your client', 'poisoning a chalice', and 'making a deal with a demon'.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Spooky deck builder where you recruit monsters and criminals to do haunted heists.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Using deck building to build your gang for haunted heists.
- Set Collection — Recruiting monsters, criminals, pirates, animals.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am so impressed by the stories and passion of the indie publishers in this hobby.
- The night before last as I sit there trying to go to sleep, I'm just overwhelmed with I don't know, I guess happiness and getting us to see so many of these incredible people that are essentially in charge of the future of this hobby and this overwhelming need to see them succeed.
- By you watching this video to the very end, you are supporting indie publishing as a whole.
- Supporting independent publishers is a huge deal, and I realize that more than ever after visiting Origins for the first time.
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