After a devastating nuclear war, six human factions are seeking shelter in the Centauri system. On the verge of extinction, the humans are saved by a superior civilization, allegedly the Centaurians, and each faction is given a fresh start on a new planet. Thus the exodus of humanity seems to have ended on the planets orbiting the star called Proxima Centauri. When the Centaurians announce their departure, the struggle for power commences once again.
In Exodus: Proxima Centauri, the six factions fight for dominance in an epic empire-building game, striving to build a new human empire on the ashes of the Centaurian civilization. Each player will build his own space fleet of customized ships and conquer new planets, fight the Centaurian Resistance and the other players, negotiate and vote for political decisions, research Centaurian technologies, and much more.
Exodus is a 4X game featuring a tech tree, blind bidding on political laws and resolutions, hidden movement, resource management, logistics, and engine building. Exodus is a game that greatly encourages and rewards combat with NPCs and other players--both through ships and weapons of mass destruction.
Interactive Setup for Exodus (nskn.net)
- Allows for a TI4-like experience in a shorter playtime
- Worthwhile distraction for TI4 fans
- Not a dice game despite dice on tiles
- Still longer than 2 hours
- Interstellar colonization and expansion
- Deep space
- Twilight Imperium
- TI4
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X — Another 4X game. you'll be building your ships, you'll be sending them out into the universe, you'll be trying to take over planets.
- Resource Management — you'll be using the resources on the planets to enhance your Technologies.
- Technology tree — enhance your Technologies.
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- I hope you [__] are interally grateful to me for causing myself this much pain and suffering
- Panic on Wall Street is way out of print so I'm not like dangling carrots or anything but if you can find it and you can afford to buy the vacant Epstein Island then Panic on Wall Street is a fantastic investment
- Shadows over Camelot is the original hidden traitor game maybe it laid the groundwork for other games like Battle Star Galactica and smaller games like the resistance and all that [__]
- the combat system does leave the other players just sitting there toling their thumbs quite a bit there's a little bit of downtime on this and it is a really long game
- Picture Perfect is a Zen like experience for me and it allows me that sort of breathing space to go back to kicking all you [__] heads in when I lose or rag
- it's huge it's vast it's confusing and we love it
References (from this video)
- my favorite
- 4X
- Space
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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- Clash of Cultures I like I like the the new the Revis Edition or whatever I thought that was good
- Last Light is the 4X face game that plays in an hour
- You heard me right it plays in an hour
- You know what band there's a band that I I love it's in my it me it maybe every once a while it would fall out of my top five bands but it's it it'll always remain like top six or seven
- When you were that good you're just that good
- I want to see the Chiefs win the next six Super Bowls I do
- I don't think it's a big deal why are you googling Board Game Geek stuff when you could just go to the website
- your guy doesn't do any attacks it's just all of his little minions do do his attacks for him
- Bone Razer is ready five bucks
- all the reviews Say it'll hit your dopamine pretty well
- the AI of it starts crumbling a bit so it gets really frustrating
- The revised edition is good
- Rules are tightened up
- Includes the old expansion
- It is a huge game
- Has a thousand things going on
- Plays in an hour
- Has over 2000 backers on Gamefound
- Did better than the first time
- One of the worst Productions I've seen the cards fall apart
- It's pretty good
- It's a Monty Python game
- The python game doesn't look good I just ped it because it's python
- Very much your standard Vampire Survivors
- Five bucks
- Definitely get five bucks with the fun
- Keeps unlocking new characters
- Has a lot of gameplay
- Hits dopamine well
- Leveling is really good
- Massive hit
- Early access
- AI of the game starts crumbling when automated elements are introduced.
- Gets really frustrating.
- Still has bugs.
- Feels like it has stolen Pokemon IP without actually stealing it.
- It was fine
- Puzzly
- Really simple
References (from this video)
- Fantastic game
- Takes the Twilight Imperium theme and condenses it
- Practically got everything you need
- Expansion adds specific player abilities
- Host missed a final expansion
- Planets are worth nothing once stripped of value
- Space themed 4X game
- Space
- Twilight Imperium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X — Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate in a space setting.
- Dice Placement — Dice are used for resources.
- fleet building — Players build up their fleet with weapons.
- politics — There is a political aspect to the game.
- Technology trees — Players can chase technologies.
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- don't get your knickers in a Twist if your favorite ball game of all time eight on this list and if it's not on this list then that's because a we haven't played it or B we think it is complete and a dog
- if you don't have 12 or 18 hours to play to appear in fourth edition Exodus proximus andor will definitely slide easily into your lubed up nostril
- if you don't like getting stitched up then the Bonk ain't going to be for you
- you know that when a game hangs around like a bad smell for 25 years then it's going to be fucking awesome
- we stopped with our original version added the Creatures Great and Small expansion I think it's called and that's it we're going to keep that and we're going to play it forever and ever and ever amen
References (from this video)
- Fantastic technology system
- Asymmetrical factions from the first expansion are a massive bonus
- Good egg when it comes to 4X intergalactic gameplay
- Cannot be played in two hours
- Disappeared off the face of the earth (not widely discussed anymore)
- 4X space game involving expansion, exploration, extermination.
- Intergalactic
- Twilight Imperium
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X — Expanding, exploring, exterminating.
- Technology Investment — Investing resources in building up ships, with all resources applied to every ship.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So, this is number 80 down to 71. So, this is still in the dog [ __ ] ended part of the sticker territory.
- Remember, if your top 100 games aren't on this list, then that's because A, we haven't played them or B, we think they're complete and utter dog [ __ ].
- It is long. It's 4 hours plus. Yeah, I know there's going to be people out there saying it's not that long, but I don't care what you [ __ ] think. [ __ ] off.
- It's almost as if Peter Hall has uncovered the simplest equation to how the brain interprets fun. Yeah. Albeit by using some stuffy old cubes that have been pulled out from under someone's foreskin. Yeah. Not literally.
- If you've got Zo Legends of the Drift system and you ain't own that expansion, then you're a [ __ ] fuckard.
- Sometimes you roll a D20 in this game and it's going to put a cucumber up your bum bum, which isn't always welcome depending on what day it is and what time it is actually.
- No [ __ ] [ __ ] Right. Newer trains that you build are going to cover greater distances cuz they're obviously more efficient technologically, right?
- This is one of them games that's like a hybrid game. It borrows a lot of mechanics from other games. You see elements of katan in here, a lot of Stephen Feld [ __ ] going on. And it's almost as if it just blends it all into one big massive [ __ ] dough pile and then lets you gorge on all of your favorite mechanics at once.
- It's one of them rare occasions where the hype is real.
- If you are struggling for a free player game and you don't mind trolling through a relatively heavy rule book, then Maria is possibly greatest free player war game ever made. I know some people are going to say that Churchill or one of them games is better, but I ain't played it so you can kiss my ass.