On orders from the king, you have come to an island with a treasure-filled dungeon to seek its riches. Unfortunately, as far as adventurers go, you’re exceedingly cowardly and can’t seem to muster up the courage to enter the dungeon yourself. While drinking in a tavern nearby, you come up with a brilliant idea: “What if I hire other adventurers to go into the dungeon in my place?”
In Dinky Dungeon, players attempt to collect treasures from the dungeon by playing one of the two adventurer cards from their hand and activating its ability. Adventurer abilities have a wide variety of effects, from drawing treasure cards from the dungeon (worth points at the end of the game), to discarding other players’ treasure cards, to utilizing a discarded adventurer card’s ability, and more. Because players are able to draft an adventurer card to add to their hand from a selection of 4 every turn, the game offers a solid amount of hand flexibility while remaining simple and straightforward for beginners. Players will always have something they can do to try and get a leg up on their opponents!
The game ends when one of two conditions is met:
- A player ends their turn with a point total passing a designated threshold (varies by player count).
- The dungeon deck runs out of cards.
- Description from the publisher
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- 64 days straight of dungeon crawls.
- What dungeon crawls do you want to see?
- Put into the comments what you want to see.
- I'll start work Hey, I'm retired. What else do I got to do, right?
References (from this video)
- varied abilities
- compact and quick to play
- some cards feel underutilized
- can be luck-influenced
- Drop Halter
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — cards have varied abilities; players use them to influence play and scoring
- Hand Management — optimal use of limited cards to maximize score
- Multi-Use Cards — cards have varied abilities; players use them to influence play and scoring
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is so good this might be one of the best oink games there is
- this is one of the best oink games there is and it's just silly fun
- it's a one-handed dexterity game
- this is a review copy
- it's not a stayer for us
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