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Durian Dash

Game ID: GID0107943
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Year
2021
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Description

Durian Dash is a strategy card-based game where players will need to visit different plantations to collect their favourite durians to become the King of the King of Fruits. But beware — you will need to watch out for the other players’ spikes!

Select your plantation and use your Action Cards to gather durians and discard rotten ones! Will you go for durians that you prefer, or will you drop rotten durians into your opponent's stock? No matter what you choose, you'll have to be quick enough to become the King of Kings!

A players wins the game by having the most Thumbs Up (points), and the game ends when the Durian deck runs out.

—"description from the publisher"

Description

Durian Dash is a strategy card-based game where players will need to visit different plantations to collect their favourite durians to become the King of the King of Fruits. But beware — you will need to watch out for the other players’ spikes!

Select your plantation and use your Action Cards to gather durians and discard rotten ones! Will you go for durians that you prefer, or will you drop rotten durians into your opponent's stock? No matter what you choose, you'll have to be quick enough to become the King of Kings!

A players wins the game by having the most Thumbs Up (points), and the game ends when the Durian deck runs out.

—"description from the publisher"

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Clever little filler party game
  • Fits its niche well
  • Simplicity and elegance in a quick party game
Cons
  • All the cards look pretty similar, making it hard to distinguish at a glance.
Thematic elements
  • Durian fruit markets
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Drafting — simultaneously everyone will choose which Market they're going from which card they wish to play.
  • Drafting — it's a simultaneous action selection drafting type of game.
  • hidden objectives — you also have a bit of a hidden objective what durian you're trying to collect which story and you don't want.
  • Set Collection — everyone is trying to get their favorite durians and so there will be two markets pahang and Johor and everyone will have one of these cards this will tell them what type of durian they love secretly secretly and what type they hate and then it's all about getting the durians that you love.
  • Simultaneous action selection — it's a simultaneous action selection drafting type of game.
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  • you can't have a great restaurant without a wok pun in the title right or a food pun in the title.
  • it's a clever little clever little uh filler party game I think it fits that Niche really well.
  • you know who you can almost taste it and it's amazing.
  • Food food and fun.
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