Greetings, Townsfolk! Your cosy hamlet recently welcomed three new dragon hatchlings, but there’s not enough room for them in the watchtower where mother dragon has chosen to roost. Work together to manipulate the watchtower, to create safe spaces for the baby dragons and to settle the hatchlings in before mother dragon returns…
Working together, use tools to manipulate a tower of wooden pieces. Create enough space to safely balance 3 baby dragon miniatures before running out of tool actions. Finally, place the mother dragon on top of your tower to win. If any baby dragons fall, you lose (but don’t worry; we put up a net to catch them!). Test your skills over dozens of levels with new tower structures and challenge tokens.
—description from the publisher
- Cool looking game
- Beautiful meeples
- Nice player reference cards
- Feels like a lot of game in a small box
- Small box games are appealing
- Nice components
- Has unique art styles and different mechanisms
- Main image could be improved with more details about mechanisms, components, player time, and age.
- Main image is bland and underutilizes space, not showcasing components well.
- Rule booklets are present, but gameplay videos would be beneficial.
- All Play games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — The host questions if the game is cooperative.
- dexterity — One of the games is identified as a dexterity game, with components like a small hammer and tweezers that suggest dexterity challenges.
- Mining — The theme involves needing to craft a plan to mine an asteroid.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I feel like this hobby has been going way too deep and too far into these massive bloated oversized $300 every other day it feels like on Kickstarter deluxe-ified versions of games.
- And so we're going to be checking out three small box games from a company I've never heard of.
- this is a COOL-LOOKING GAME.
- I like three small box games. If one of them ends up being great, I'm happy.
- Can you do it? Yes. We're going to go Oh, and then this is the most recent one. Not out but still. Can you do it? Yes. Check mark.
- It feels like a lot of game in that box.
- The sheer fact that it's like yeah, we we shipped out this many of them and I'm sure that one of those 5,000 I'm sure that one probably did get some love that year.
- Bottom line is the main image while I still think could be way better because it doesn't spotlight the fact that these boxes have some really nice looking components in it.
- I'm going to go with a B minus overall.