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Sunlight glaring through the windshield. Your favorite songs blasting through the speakers. Candy bar wrappers piled next to a warm drink in the cheap plastic cupholder. Your companion riding in the passenger seat, snapping pictures of landmarks as you settle into the hypnotic rhythm of the road. But be careful as this fun road trip could get dangerous as you drive through Death Valley.
Death Valley is a pocket-sized, push-your-luck, tableau-building game for 1-2 players, with each traveler striving to assemble the best mix of cards in their journey and scrapbook in order to win the game.
Each turn, players choose whether to assign a card to their journey, or move cards from their journey to their scrapbook. Cards feature stars (points), special abilities (which affect the value and position of cards), and some interesting facts about Death Valley. Each card also lists a hazard: heat, terrain, flood or animals. Having three of the same hazard visible in their tableau causes the player to bust and lose all the progress in their journey.
At the end of the game, players sum the stars in their journey and any additional points from card abilities to determine who wins.
Death Valley was a top-three finalist in Button Shy's 18-Card Challenge: Design a game about a real life location.
Year Published
2021
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Foster the Meeple general_discussion at 9:21 sentiment: positive
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positive
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- Wallet-sized design makes it ideal for Calyx cubes
- Sharp, quick tug-of-war feel
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- Two-player focus limits group variety
- Narrow scope compared to bigger card games
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- Blood Rage is my number one game of all time
- Code Names is one of my favorites I actually like playing this game at four more than any other player count
- I got cocky early with Blood Rage
- I love trick taking love it
- it's a really fun cooperative game it's worth the 15 bucks to throw at it just for the artwork
- I like paladins way more than Architects of the West Kingdom
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Foster the Meeple collection_tour at 20:44 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Stunning visuals; quick 15-minute play
Cons
- Solo experience may be limited compared to 2-player play
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- desert terrain and scoring objectives
- Death Valley landscape; scoring through landscape cards
- abstract landscape-building
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- tile/landscape drafting — place landscape cards to meet scoring objectives and create vistas
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- I'm super into button shy
- these two bags are full so I'm going to show you all of the button shy games that I currently own
- I freaking love it
- If you haven't tried button shy I highly highly recommend that you give it a go
- there's so many options for travel and storage; wallet games are perfect for on-the-go
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Unknown general_discussion at 0:25 sentiment: positive
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- really fun as usual
- this time i definitely lost
- really great game
- i can highly recommend that
- pushy luck game
- really simple for up to 8 players
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Josías top_10_list at 13:33 sentiment: positive
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- Still enjoy a lot
- Most favorite button shy games
- Love it
- Great at two-player
- Great solo
- Really really cool push your luck
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- Survival adventure
- Death Valley
- Push your luck game
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- Push Your Luck — Push luck in desert survival
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- I rank like games pretty much like how I feel right now about them right it's possible that next month I will rank the games way differently
- Stonespine Architects definitely an a rank game for me um really amazing
- I just absolutely love this one of my most favorite puzzly polyomino games
- Château Burgundy is still in my top three games has been for a few years
- I do not like auction games but I absolutely love Modern Art this is amazing
- My City is like an amazing entry level deck builder but you can also play with people who like to play games a lot
- Slay the Spire could be one of my games of the year wow this game is amazing
- Fallout is really messed up by its winning condition
- Pop-Up Pirate it's funny but is it a good game no it's not really a game right
- I like vegetable themed games it sounds very specific but that's the way it is
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Unknown Channel general_discussion at 0:29 sentiment: positive
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- i really love to death
- i've discovered bga for myself which is pretty cool
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Ace of Games top_10_list at 9:53 sentiment: positive
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- This is highly subjective in general I award this to games that I find especially entertaining designed especially well or elegantly or view as a great overall package.
- I don't rate games on this channel with a number I don't really like doing that; rating a game is more complex than slapping a number in front of it.
- The definitive rating is how much I would recommend a game, and all games that award the Ace of Games too I would definitely 100% recommend.
- these three seconds is games award if a game is exceptionally good in my opinion and that concludes today's video.
- Wingspan is my most favorite game of all time... it gets the golden Ace of Games Award.
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