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Year
2012
Players
1-4
Age
13+
Playtime
120 min
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Description
Darkest Night, by designer Jeremy Lennert, is a fully-cooperative board game for one to four players (up to six with variants), set in a kingdom broken under a necromancer’s shadow. Each player takes on the role of one of the kingdom’s last heroes (nine playable characters), each with a unique set of special abilities, just as they hatch a plan to save the realm.
Searching the kingdom provides new powers and equipment to strengthen you and your party, as well as the keys that can unlock the holy relics and defeat the necromancer. You can acquire many powerful abilities—unique to each hero—that can help to fight the undead, elude the necromancer’s forces, accelerate your searches for items and artifacts, and more. The knight is a brave and powerful warrior; the prince can rally and inspire the people; the scholar excels at locating and restoring the treasures of the past.
But ravenous undead roam the realm, and as the necromancer continues to build his power base, he blights the land and his army steadily grows. As the game wears on, the necromancer becomes more and more powerful, creating blights more quickly and effectively. If an area becomes too blighted, it gets overrun—and the monastery receives the spillover. And if the monastery is ever overrun, the necromancer wins and the kingdom is swallowed in darkness!
Before the monastery falls, it's up to you and your party to defeat the necromancer in one of two ways: If you can gather three holy relics and bring them all back to the monastery, you can perform a powerful ritual to break the necromancer’s power and scour the land of the undead. Alternatively, you can try to defeat the necromancer in direct combat—but be warned, he will readily sacrifice his minions to save himself.
Can you save the kingdom from darkness? Do you have the courage, the cunning and the will to withstand the necromancer and his forces? Strategize, plan and bring out the best of your abilities to end our Darkest Night!
Game Data:
Complexity: 4.5 on a 9 scale
Solitaire Suitability: 9 on a 9 scale
Scale: Each unit represents a Hero, the Necromancer or blights in a guerilla war over a small kingdom. Each round represents approximately several days to a week.
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The Dungeon Dive Top 50 List at 12:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- lots of characters and unique powers
- variety in enemy design and encounters
Cons
- rules can be weighty to learn
- thematic intensity may not appeal to all
Thematic elements
- dark fantasy outbreak-style crisis management
- cooperative fantasy threat-management with adventuring elements
- team-based planning with evolving perils
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- character decks — each character has a unique powers deck
- Combat: Deck/Hand — each character has a unique powers deck
- Cooperative Actions — team-building to balance strengths and weaknesses
- multi-character synergy — team-building to balance strengths and weaknesses
- Risk Management — players manage crises and global threats
- threat management — players manage crises and global threats
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a really really simple game you basically do the same thing every turn you move your character into a new room you draw an encounter card you face that encounter rinse and repeat
- if you are into pulp fiction if you are into adventure fiction this is the game for you
- Dungeon Crusade has the best dungeon tile art and i've ever seen i absolutely love the way that various dungeons look
- there are a ton of expansions from the small box expansions which just kind of add a whole bunch of cards
- it's absolutely dripping with theme this game feels like you are playing an old hammer house of horror movie in a board game
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 28:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- looks beautiful on the table
- gorgeous board
- love that about Darkest Knight Second Edition
- characters are so different
- feel different
- really fast brisk at game
- lot of different options where you can tailor the difficulty
- Darkest Knight Second Edition is great
Cons
- it's out of print right now
- prices on it have been going up
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Arkham Horror
- Eldritch Horror
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character Power Decks — all of the characters are so different I think there's something like 27 different characters and they all have a deck of cards of powers that you can unlock
- Single Action — In Darkest Night you only get one action you can move or you can do a thing in your space that's it
- threat management — it is a threat management style game
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- Fallout with the expansions with the California expansion and the atomic bonds um Atomic bonds expansion the small expansion that basically fixes the game uh yeah out of the box wasn't a great game I liked it more than most people did but those expansions greatly Elevate the game it is a great great post-apocalyptic game that does have that unique Fallout feel
- The combat is a little fiddly and just never really feels natural I always forget uh how to solve combat in that game but uh everything else I really like the questing is super cool and just it's a neat world to be in and I think they did a really good job of capturing the uniqueness of Fallout
- But once you start adding in all of the incredible expansions for Defenders of the realm then the game really does feel like this Grand epic adventure game
- It's a cliffhanger game fortune and Glory the Cliffhanger game it has that old Cliffhanger serialized feel to it where you jump for a cliff and you fail that roll and you miss and then on your next turn you have to pick up on that Cliffhanger and you're hanging on by a thread
- This is probably the most unique game on this list and that is B in one aard game all about Brighton and that is the 2022 it's the uh 10th anniversary edition I believe it's the newest edition that he just put out and this is a game all about having a adventurous day in the city of Brighton and it's a modernday urban Adventure game and it is so Charming
- It really is it's impossible to keep up it's impossible to play all the games it's impossible to play the games I want to play enough to to satisfy me because there's just so many things coming out and so many things competing for for our hobby intention
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Rob's Tabletop World Analysis at 5:29
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Click to watch at 5:29 · YouTube ↗
Pros
- unopened
- sealed
Cons
none
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Quotes (from this video)
- The hard thing is I can't do it. I've got to rely on my wife to do it. So that's why we're kind of juggling things and it's kind of hard to get everything together.
- I added more stuff to the mystery lots. So, we're going to go over it here and make sure that you understand what's going on here.
- When you make a bid, it is for lots two and three. Okay.
- I can't show you the games because I just can't move on this thing.
- It is what it is. Um
- It's been like a machine but with this ankle completely torn up. It is really really hard. Okay.
- The rules don't take that much. They really don't take that much.
- I think it's a really really special game. And I can't believe I missed it for this long.
- We're going to end it this Thursday. So um this Thursday 12 noon it's the last time you can get your bids in.
- And lot 11, don't forget that Neuroscape game. That thing that that game is hot and expensive and, uh, good luck because it'
- Big time hockey. Big time boxing. I'll take a look at it. I'll write him if he'll bring he'll send it to us. I'm a big- time hockey guy. You know that. Very painful. Very painful.
- If you want to bid, email me novarapime860@hotmail.com.
- Galaxy Defender. Okay, at 250. We combined the two lots, two and three. Okay, they are going to be one lot now.
- Uh, Lot number four has no bids on it. That's the Memoir 44, Ace Armor, Flames of War starter set, uh, coin game, um, uh, D, uh, D-Day, uh, solo game from Decision Games. A great, great, great lot. Expensive lot, too.
- Lot number 11, Last Night on Earth, Darkest Night, the miniature expansion for it, Naroscape, and Risk. I threw that in there. Brand new copy. Nobody can ever have enough uh Risk.
- That thing that that game is hot and expensive and, uh, good luck because it's a low print run, so the cards are worth cash, but we need the cash.
- See, I got to talk more about that Dynasty baseball game. this there's certain games that just get get me a certain way and I go, "Yeah, that's that's gonna be a classic."
- Schnickel Fritz is if you just want to donate money. Snickler Fritz64@yahoo uh.com. If you don't want to bid on anything, you just want to send five bucks to help us out. Uh, we would appreciate that. You can do that, too.
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Rob's Tabletop World Analysis at 30:59
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Click to watch at 30:59 · YouTube ↗
Pros
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Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The hard thing is I can't do it. I've got to rely on my wife to do it. So that's why we're kind of juggling things and it's kind of hard to get everything together.
- I added more stuff to the mystery lots. So, we're going to go over it here and make sure that you understand what's going on here.
- When you make a bid, it is for lots two and three. Okay.
- I can't show you the games because I just can't move on this thing.
- It is what it is. Um
- It's been like a machine but with this ankle completely torn up. It is really really hard. Okay.
- The rules don't take that much. They really don't take that much.
- I think it's a really really special game. And I can't believe I missed it for this long.
- We're going to end it this Thursday. So um this Thursday 12 noon it's the last time you can get your bids in.
- And lot 11, don't forget that Neuroscape game. That thing that that game is hot and expensive and, uh, good luck because it'
- Big time hockey. Big time boxing. I'll take a look at it. I'll write him if he'll bring he'll send it to us. I'm a big- time hockey guy. You know that. Very painful. Very painful.
- If you want to bid, email me novarapime860@hotmail.com.
- Galaxy Defender. Okay, at 250. We combined the two lots, two and three. Okay, they are going to be one lot now.
- Uh, Lot number four has no bids on it. That's the Memoir 44, Ace Armor, Flames of War starter set, uh, coin game, um, uh, D, uh, D-Day, uh, solo game from Decision Games. A great, great, great lot. Expensive lot, too.
- Lot number 11, Last Night on Earth, Darkest Night, the miniature expansion for it, Naroscape, and Risk. I threw that in there. Brand new copy. Nobody can ever have enough uh Risk.
- That thing that that game is hot and expensive and, uh, good luck because it's a low print run, so the cards are worth cash, but we need the cash.
- See, I got to talk more about that Dynasty baseball game. this there's certain games that just get get me a certain way and I go, "Yeah, that's that's gonna be a classic."
- Schnickel Fritz is if you just want to donate money. Snickler Fritz64@yahoo uh.com. If you don't want to bid on anything, you just want to send five bucks to help us out. Uh, we would appreciate that. You can do that, too.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 6:13 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- necromancy
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a pile of mid games as I take a look at board games on boardgamegeek.com, a repository of all things about board games.
- These are games that don't get talked about as much.
- it really is a very simple game from Prospero Hall.
- This is kind of one of those games I wish I had played back in the day.
- This is one of the best fillers out there where you have a bunch of swimmers out there.
- I think A Fell is a fine game. I just think it's sort of broken.
- It's a classic for a reason.
- what a fantastic party game.
- Phoenicia Tom Lehmann killed his own game. He eventually came out with Race for the Galaxy, which was a much, much better Phoenicia, which is why this game has kind of disappeared.
- one of the longest rule books in history.
- It is so complex.
- Of all the games I talked about today, I actually I think Lynx City I like Asking for Trouble's a lot, but Lynx City is my favorite.
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