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2022
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Description
Conflict spreads across the Imperium in Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix, the first expansion to the award-winning board game.
Enter the fray as one of three new Great Houses with unique leader abilities.
Acquire technological innovations from the planet Ix for a lasting strategic advantage.
Deploy fearsome dreadnoughts to rule the skies above Arrakis.
Dispatch subtle infiltrators to outmaneuver your opponents.
Dominate the Imperium in the new Epic game mode for a more intense, high-stakes challenge.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:17 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Adds more complexity and content.
- The 'techs' are a cool and varied addition.
- The expansion makes the game better overall, according to most reviewers.
- Dreadnoughts add an interesting strategic element to combat.
- The expansion encourages more combat participation and makes it tighter.
Cons
- The game still relies heavily on luck and randomness.
- The deck can become too 'fluffed out' with new cards.
- Some mechanics, like solari, can become less useful.
- The expansion doesn't fix the core problems some players have with the base game.
- It can be difficult to get desired engines to work due to randomness.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
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- Mantis Falls
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card drafting/market — The expansion introduces new cards to purchase from a market, adding complexity but also increasing reliance on luck.
- Combat — The expansion introduces dreadnoughts and more combat-focused cards, making combat a more viable and tighter aspect of the game.
- Deck Building — The expansion adds more cards to the deck, but some reviewers feel the deck becomes too 'fluffed out' without enough ways to thin it.
- Technology/Upgrades — The expansion adds 'techs' which provide a variety of bonuses, including resources, abilities, and victory points.
- Worker Placement — New board spaces and mechanics are introduced, offering more options but sometimes leading to tight competition for spots.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The techs are by far the best part of the whole game.
- This is a good expansion for Dune Imperium.
- I feel like this game is like you're playing against a water mage magic magic deck a control deck everyone else is getting to play except or he's getting to play but no one else is.
- It's definitely a better game.
- For me, Dune Imperium is a six, which everyone thinks is like the worst rating ever.
- I always love special power like tech trees.
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Getting Games Top 25 List at 6:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- new board and features add variety
- Dune universe (expansion)
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- new board and sideboard — replaces the base board with a new board and adds a supplementary/sideboard
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Quotes (from this video)
- the quickest meanest knife fight for veteran and 18xx style players
- it's supposed to be a 90 to 120 minute game
- adorable
- i'm going to be playing this game tonight
- i actually purchased a copy of this about 30 minutes ago
- this expansion adds in a few new things which seemed like they would slot in quite well
- this just sounds so cool
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BigPasti Review at 7:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- adds leadership variety
- increases play diversity
- new card types and mechanics offer fresh strategies
Cons
- increases complexity and potential meta-shifts
Thematic elements
- expansion to deepen intrigue, add new factions and technologies
- Ix expansion adds new leaders and a battlefield on Ix; ship-in overlay on Lancrad/Chome area
- enhanced strategic depth with more anti-blocking mechanics
Comparison games
- Dune Imperium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- infiltration — new infiltration mechanic
- New Leaders — five new leaders with unique abilities
- overlay track/shipin — overlay adds new strategic track and ship implications
- Time Track — overlay adds new strategic track and ship implications
- unload — unload mechanic adding more card/resolution choices
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Here are your abilities to reach certain places.
- It's chaos in the best ways.
- It's a puzzle to be solved and someone's going to solve it.
- The final points are tallied up and it's so close.
- I'm legitimately excited, but legitimately saddened to see a game I love go away.
- Dune Imperium isn't gone forever.
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Quackalope Analysis at 1:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds depth and complexity.
- Makes choices more important.
- Adds interesting worker placement locations.
- Enhances deck building.
- Strategic market.
- Noticeable improvement to combat.
- Provides varied objectives.
Cons
- Doesn't mesh well with Uprising.
Thematic elements
- Adds more depth and complexity to the base game, making choices more important.
Comparison games
- Dune: Imperium (base game)
- Uprising
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card enhancements — Cards with 'unload' mechanic give benefits from discarding or trashing, and some cards interact directly with other board spots.
- Dreadnoughts — Permanent units on the board that provide three power in combat.
- New Leaders — Adds new leaders with different powers that add more complexity and different strategies.
- Shipping track — Adds a new track that allows for accumulating bonuses, potentially leading to discounts on tech tiles.
- tech track — Introduces tech tiles that provide benefits or boosts, influencing endgame scoring or tableau building.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I like turkeys, I think they should be the national bird.
- This is the best expansion of all time.
- The choices become so much more important I feel EV with every move you make in Rise of X
- Immortality is the one expansion that I think adds about equally to both
- It's not just adding to the base game it's actually changing the way you play your path towards Victory can be different with immortality in
- I felt so many times with playing with the tech tiles here in Bloodlines that it seemed similar to a tile in Rise of X, but I would rather have had the Rise of X tile
- I like that they've opened the floor for people
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Quackalope Playthrough at 4:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Improved deck building compared to Uprising.
- Added more interesting options to the marketplace.
Cons
- The tech tiles in Bloodlines were not as impactful as those in Rise of X.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Helps to adjust or correct the deck building experience.
- Tech Tiles — Introduced tech tiles that provide new abilities and options.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
- Spice must flow.
- Bless the maker and his water. Bless the coming and going of him. May his passage cleanse the world. May he keep the world for his people.
- I feel like I'm in the running to win this game, not for any of the battles I want to be in.
- My dad jokes are terrible. My dad jokes are terrible.
- My worms last round certainly helped. Like that was, you know, a three-point a three-point jump.
- I don't think I've ever seen you in combat. Yeah, it's it's there's too much of a sway, I feel.
- I don't think I over overlapped. I didn't have many discard, but I mostly used them to dig into my deck.
- I am now on my game. Okay. Okay.
- It's a lot of sand. It's a lot of worms. Two bodies. Refinery and two people.
- I feel like the combat did slow down a little bit, but um but yeah, it did I I did enjoy this. It didn't feel that much different if I'm being honest.
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Board Game Critique Review at 10:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds meaningful strategic depth and variety
- Increases interactivity and decision points across tracks
- Broadly improves the core Dune: Imperium experience
Cons
- Introduction of new spaces slightly increases board tightness
- Requires adaptation of general play rhythms
Thematic elements
- multi-path progression; layered tech and ship-track advancement
- Dune universe; interstellar shipping and spice economy
- tech-tree-inspired depth with configurable goals
Comparison games
- Dune: Imperium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- EXIN technology tiles — 18 tech tiles accessed via spice; grants ongoing or one-time powers
- Multiple viable paths — No single dominant path; players can pursue Solari, Spice-based tech, or influence tracks
- New strategic elements — Additional strategic options and card types deepen the experience
- Play space recall and progression — Recall your ship to collect rewards or advance for greater riches
- Rise of IX redesigns CHO track — CHO space becomes the interstellar shipping track; tiered rewards
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is the expansion that solves the biggest pacing problem I've ever encountered in a board game.
- Prelude eliminates Terraforming Mars' sluggish opening.
- Valhalla transforms warrior death from punishing setback to strategic opportunity.
- There’s no single dominant path. Invest heavily in dreadnots purchased with Solari, IXIN tech purchased with Spice, or traditional influence track pursuit.
- The Globe Trotters bonus card awards 15 points to whoever completes the most destination tickets, incentivizing midgame risks rather than playing it safe.
- Intrigue is pure deck building. It adds 26 kingdom cards.
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Tabletop Tolson Game Expansion Review at 2:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adds depth and new strategic avenues
- Dreadnots introduce additional combat nuance
Cons
- Increases complexity and setup time
Thematic elements
- advancement, strategic expansion, and new power tiers
- Expanded Chome space and new Landsraad council mechanics
- layered, modular expansion
Comparison games
- Dune Imperium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dreadnots in conflict — dreadnots are valued higher and interact with combat in new ways
- Modular Board — Chome board overlay increases space and options
- overlay board and modular spaces — Chome board overlay increases space and options
- tech tiles with discounts — choose tech tiles with costs reduced and potential endgame benefits
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a deck building game.
- It's also a worker placement game.
- Immortality is probably my favorite expansion of all.
- The graft is a way to pair the card that says graft with another card.
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