Game Info
Year
2015
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
2.3/5
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Description
A space colonization card game where players terraform planets recruit soldiers and manipulate both their own and rival cards to gather resources
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PlayingBoardGames Analysis at 0:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great testing environment for investigators and decks.
Cons
none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This kind of just like gets the job done and like really exactly get that gets that fantasy of Andre Patel where you just don't fail tests when you want to do this.
- And I think that Miguel has the foundation to be the strongest of the five.
- Survivor is in a exceptionally good place in the current state of the game and uh it's literally only going up from here in like the legacy format.
- This card is nuts. This card is nuts.
- Out the door paired with an evasion action. I get a clue, maybe draw a card and gain a resource off my pick pocketing. And I'm also just getting four resources on top of that while doing all these other things. The card just represents an insane amount of value.
- It's a staple, if you have this in your class, you kind of have to be like uh you kind of have to be um find a reason not to play it.
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PlayingBoardGames Analysis at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The new campaign offers a different experience.
- The adjusted deck building rules allow for more creative freedom.
Cons
- Slightly easier than the previous campaign, requiring rule bending to compensate.
- One player died in Dark Matter due to being sleepy.
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign play — This is the new campaign the players are transitioning into from Carcosa.
- Custom Deck Building Rules — The XP and card choices for this run do not need to follow standard deck building rules.
- difficulty adjustment — Noted as being a little bit easier than Carcosa, leading to the decision to play on hard.
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Quotes (from this video)
- We are doing a little special we call break the rules run where we are going to uh play through the path of Carcosa and then we're going to go directly into dark matter.
- the XP that um that we put into our decks and the cards we put into decks do not need to follow deck building rules for those characters.
- It's perfect. A flawless design.
- I'm sleepy. That's how I died in Dark Matter.
- Now, sorcerers get all the cool flashy stuff.
- I said I will choose to not die to horror.
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 26:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive anticipation
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- And in this video, I'll be discussing the best games that I played in 2025.
- And the golden torch award I am giving out to games that uh are just shining examples in the hobby. They are the golden torches and I think the game that I am awarding that to this year really really does deserve it.
- But my most disappointing was the uh the expansion for Talisman fifth edition, the co-op expansion. Man, what a disappointment.
- Those house rules created by Dragon Phoenix Games, which are the designers and publisher for Gathering Gloom, are great. they make the game how it should have been from the beginning.
- Wandering Galaxy was going to be my game of the year. It's a fantastic game.
- Conversely, my game of the year and the winner of the very very first Dungeon Dive Golden Torch award is shockingly just shocked me to like I couldn't believe that I am giving my game of the year to a Stonemer Games game uh from from uh from Jamie Stagmire and that is Vantage.
- It is so effortlessly easy to set up, to learn, to play. I mean, it literally takes about 5 minutes to set the game up and start playing.
- What I care about is having an experience of having a fun experience of exploration of discovery of mystery of of that kind of illusion of infinite possibility.
- And I can't think of another game that gives me that illusion better than Vantage does. It is absolutely truly the modern adventure game perfected.
- So, all right. Well, hey, let me know some of the best games you played.
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PlayingBoardGames Analysis at 59:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Going to the memory room.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I think this police dog is a is a goated card.
- I think this is a very powerful card.
- Um in two to three years for a cycle to stay current and supported, I think that also means two to three years in print.
- I don't think this game is big enough to be scalpable.
- All I can say is that I personally intensely dislike the trend of scalping scalping games or anything for that matter.
- And Snakebird Priestess, that is a very funny message.
- Which is certainly there are many non-obvious signs that someone is chat GPT.
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PlayingBoardGames Analysis at 0:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- It is a notably easier campaign.
- The host enjoys playing it.
- It's XP rich and easy, which makes it fun.
- It's a great testing ground for investigators.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Arkham Horror
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — The host is building decks for this specific campaign.
- legacy — The decks being built are legacy decks for this campaign.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- If you are a gameplay viewer, where you like the Arkham gameplay, for example, the gameplay that this um Dark Matter deck building is for, you will want to go to subscribe to our new channel More Playing Board Games, which is going to be the home for all of our gameplay content going forward.
- I need to start grinding out with the official investigators and all that. Just to see these guys in action and try to like, you know, if I if I'm going to when we're going to do our tier lists at the end of the year, I would like to actually have some sort of basis to talk about for these investigators.
- This is one of the best Arkham cards like ever made. It This card is nuts. It's It's It's disgustingly good.
- This is why our can build is the is is the goat.
- So, we're going to be bringing through Dark Matter.
- Dark Matter is a great campaign. It's XP rich and easy, which does help it be really fun.
- But, it's also a great testing ground. I love to bring investigators through it because it can kind of show like their peak potential.
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