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2014
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Description
Fallen is a two-player card and dice game with fast and challenging game play, gorgeous art, and plenty of re-playability all wrapped up in an ever-changing story.
One player chooses a Hero to delve deep within a dungeon, seeking the ultimate evil that waits below. Play as Seroth the Pit Fighter and fight to win at any cost, Merace the Sorceress and cast devastating spells, or Ranek the Thief striking from the shadows.
Every Hero comes with a unique character card depicting the hero and the special abilities and proficiencies of that particular character. Each hero also comes with nine unique skills to choose from which are divided into three skill trees catering to a particular proficiency. Ten signature Power cards also come with each hero, giving them special abilities that are themed to their style of play.
The second player takes on the role of the Dungeon Lord, summoning vile creatures and ancient spells to defeat the Hero. Play as the Archivist of Souls weaving dark spells that plague the hero, the Forge Master, part wizard and part machine, filling the dungeon corridors with horribly augmented monstrosities, or as Krogarn the Ogre king sending your primal horde and spirit magic to hunt down the adventurer.
Similar to the Hero, the Dungeon Lord has a character card that depicts the chosen form as well as showing the special abilities used by that character. In addition, ten signature Power cards come with each Dungeon Lord that are specific to style of villainy.
Unique Story cards bring the dungeons of Fallen to life. These cards deliver an immersive dungeon experience for players new to gaming, yet have deeper mechanics to keep even die-hard players on their toes.
After adventuring through the dungeon, the Hero and Dungeon Lord clash in an epic battle between good and evil. The challenges are fast and furious as cards are played and custom dice are rolled.
This is the game of Fallen.
Featuring
- Play as one of three legendary Heroes OR play as one of three sinister Dungeon Lords
- Custom dice
- Story cards that drive the action
- Customizable Heroes
- A full dungeon experience in 90 minutes
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 9:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
very positive
Pros
- Really, really clever
- Constant dopamine hits
- Good level of interaction
- Not multiplayer solitaire
- Smooth, fast, satisfying
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- managing resources and building on a falling tower
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Uses resources to perform actions like moving up a tower and building.
- Area Building — Building buildings on a tower that cycles and falls.
- Resource Management — Players manage resources to move up a tower and build buildings.
- tile laying — Buildings are placed on a board that cycles, with placed buildings returning to the player's board when they fall off.
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- This is a video that we do and we just tell you all the videos we put out over the past week.
- If you're interested in that, you can check it out. And then getting to the reviews.
- This is a game that is definitely meta, where it's about making board games.
- This is my favorite trick-taking game of all time.
- This is a really, really clever Eurogame, where you are going to be managing uh resources, but mostly what you're going to be doing is using those resources to move up this tower that is constantly falling, building buildings that are going to give you you know some benefits.
- Constant dopamine hits,
- What a fantastic game. Final Titan is King of Tokyo esque where we have all these there's a hundred titans in this box and you draft them and then fight.
- This is a mix between puzzles and games. Not for everybody, but if you like competitive little puzzles trying to beat other people, you'll enjoy this.
- Dried mixed citrus. Sounds great, right?
- This is nasty. This I'm going to open one. This is nasty. This is like someone wanted to make money off of the stuff in their garbage disposal.
- Take the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten, drag it through sewage, really get it in there, right?
- That's exactly what this is.
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Meeple University Top List at 1:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Loved the demo played a couple of years ago.
- Really love the turn order pass mechanics.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Collecting resources and climbing a tower
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Drafting — A turn order pass mechanic is described where players can pass and gain resources.
- resource collection — Collecting resources is a core element of the game.
- Worker Placement — Placing your worker higher costs more but increases the chance of tiles falling away.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hi everyone, Stella here from Mele University and that's Tarant and we are doing our Gen Con anticipated games which are the games that we are anticipating and wanting to play or de buy a demo and we haven't played them yet.
- So um, again, we're going to talk about these 10 games in no particular order. And game number one is called Falling.
- So, that makes for an interesting point of decision tension.
- And it is beige. So, it's going to be a good game, right? A good Euro game.
- And if that doesn't sound like a classic Euro theme we say with nothing else
- So, this is for demo and it's recently on crowdfunding. So, I think just finished.
- Yes. Well- loved game and given a redo. Yeah, must be a a reason I mean people there want to be a demand for this game right like container they redo that and a few other games these days is more of a trend
- So those are our 10 anticipated games genon if you see me please say hello even even though I'm in a meeting that's okay you can just I'm happy for people to interrupt me no problems and hopefully I'll see you there soon.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 0:29
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- hey everyone welcome to watch it played
- this is going to be a very quick update and you can tell because I'm wearing my jacket as soon as I'm done here I've got to run out the door
- this is the only chance I knew I would have to create this quick little video and I wanted to give you a couple of updates
- so we just got back from the GTS distribution com and play Day event in Atlanta where we shot a bunch of content some of that's starting to go up on the channel
- but tomorrow I am leaving for hcon this is a convention in Halifax Nova Scotia my old Hometown where they have a focus on comic books movies TV shows board games video games all kinds of geeker and I've been invited to be a special guest for the on the board gaming side of things which is really nice
- so I'm looking forward to that I'm going to sit on a couple of panels I'm going to be uh demoing and teaching games while I'm there and hey if you're in the hellofax or surrounding areas and you want to come down and play some games I I'll be there and I'd love to love to see you and hang out
- but I just want to let you know about sort of GTs and hcon because it's obviously throwing a little bit of a monkey wrench in the shooting schedule
- so keep an eye out again for more of those coming Play Day videos expect a slight delay in our playthrough of mansions of Madness which is happening right now but we'll definitely get back to that as soon as I'm back here at the table and can shoot some more content
- right now though behind the scenes I am working on this this is the Robinson Cruso second edition rule book
- I played the first edition sort of so I I had the first edition I remember I sat down with it put all the pieces out I read the first three pages of the rule book and then I closed that rule book put everything back in the box and I never touched it again I don't don't critique games but that rule book uh was not very good and I feel confident saying that because I now have the second edition rule book and it is much better
- so I'm really working on trying to figure out the best way of presenting this information so I'm at the scripting stage right now so I feel confident that I can tell you guys this is a game that we'll be featuring on the Channel with an instructional video soon
- so if you picked up the game maybe at Essen or it's one you're thinking about picking up yes there will be a watch it played video for that if you're interested
- all the producers now added to the ends of the videos so thanks for waiting
- if you look in the the list of producers at the end of the videos and you don't see your name and you know you donated at the producer level or higher during last season's fundraiser or this most recent during this year the fundraiser that we held and you don't see your name there you see a misspelling or something let me know we'll get it fixed you can let me know at watchitplayedlive.com
- okay I think that's everything I have to tell you about I got to run until the next episode thanks for watching
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Meeple University Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Encourages discussion among players
- Approachable for party or family game
- Cute artwork
- Fun guessing mechanics around similarities/differences
Cons
- May be hard for players not familiar with certain characters
Thematic elements
- identifying similarities and differences between characters via clues
- fairy tale/character universe featuring classic characters
- discussion-driven deduction with a secret character
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- board_space_arrangement — A display space is used, up to a 4 by 3 layout, to organize cards.
- card_drawing_and_reveal — Players draw cards from a deck and reveal them to form clues.
- character_elimination — In rounds, players remove characters that cannot be the secret character.
- clue_giving — A designated clue giver uses cards to indicate similarity or difference to the secret character.
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to deduce the secret character.
- cooperative_play — Players work together to deduce the secret character.
- Deduction — A designated clue giver uses cards to indicate similarity or difference to the secret character.
- Hand Management — Players manage and play cards to give clues; five cards are drawn to form hands.
- hand_management — Players manage and play cards to give clues; five cards are drawn to form hands.
- Player Elimination — In rounds, players remove characters that cannot be the secret character.
- secret_character — A secret character is identified during play through clues.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- fables plays are working together to try to find out a secret character
- the game has cute artwork
- it encourages discussions
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3:08:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- loved the mechanics
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- played the game once on camera and then gave his review of the tutorial and it at least he's being honest about it
- all he kept doing was comparing it to another game the entire time
- the cooldown system what they call it yeah so basically if you use it if you use this action you gotta way to turn you put it on your Tableau and then at the end of you turn it slides over and once it slides off then you can take it into your hand and use it again right
- I don't like this it's the best way to do it because everyone forgets when they can take it back like you put it and you slide it and you get slides off it comes back to your hand it's it's really simple it makes it very easy to know when something when you get something back too and he's like I don't need that
- he literally watches the guy play the game wrong make mistakes and then complain about the things he did wrong
- publishing zombies
- there was like a line I couldn't believe like they haven't roped off in the back it's changed a lot since the last time I've been there and they had it roped off and people were like around the block and [__] waiting to take the picture it was weird
- it's just like a popup Rocky store they s like Rocky M bilion [__] those people that come take a picture with the Statue yeah
- you can say hi to two of us what a deal two alab Boomers two the Boomers two Boomers the original Boomers Boomer OG y
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 10:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- immersive, meaningful personal journey
- low setup, highly creative
Cons
- not a traditional board game; some players may prefer structured rules
Thematic elements
- ghosts, personal journey, self-reflection
- inherited old house, overnight hauntings
- autobiographical, journaling-like gameplay
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- creative interaction — drawings and notes left in the book or on scraps
- pass-along play (optional) — copy can be handed to others to continue journeys
- solo RPG with notebook interaction — open a book, read prompts, and interact by writing/drawing
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- one of my favorite pieces of content that I get to share with y'all all year which is of course my top 10 solo board games from this year
- it plays in just about an hour so it's really easy to get to the table
- this is just such an immersive fun experience
- The Last Lighthouse is definitely one that has held my attention in terms of its overall presentation
- Sweet Lands is my number one solo game of 2024
- I love the multi-use cards, being able to destroy nightmares and turn them into traps
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Board Game Sanctuary Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Aesthetically pleasing theme and components
- Engaging bidding and drafting interplay
- Variety in painting types encourages strategic diversity
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Art collection, curation, aesthetics, frame-matching decor
- Art gallery environment with curatorial bidding and display planning
- Competitive drafting and placement with scoring via decor tiles
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — Players bid to win first pick of paintings for their wall
- Drafting — Selected paintings affect future values and scoring opportunities
- Scoring Grid / Set Completion — Values of paintings change based on left-behind selections; scoring via decor tiles and type matching
- Tile/ Pattern Matching — Matching frames and decor tiles to increase scores while avoiding same-type adjacency
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a beautiful gorgeous game
- Posh and part of the art Society
- variety in our Gallery life
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The Dungeon Dive Top List at 24:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fantastic setting and atmosphere
- Great skill system
- Packs a lot of game into a small book
- Useful solo oracle sheet
- Good advancement system for powers
- Interesting bestiary with cool, creepy creatures
- Amazing art enhances the theme and spookiness
- Supplements add significant content
Cons
- Potential need to wait for a second edition or reprint
- Perplexing Ruins is working on a second edition with a potential crowdfund in late 2025 or early 2026.
Thematic elements
- Investigating hauntings and monsters in fog-shrouded streets.
- Faux Victorian, Bloodborne meets plague of zombies or Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Comparison games
- A Touch of Evil
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 2d6 Roll System — Uses a system where players roll 2d6 and add modifiers. Results determine success (10+), success with complication (7-9), or miss (6 or lower).
- Generators — Has generators for creating anything on the fly, including creatures.
- Point Crawl — Uses a point crawl system for exploration in different environments.
- Skill Moves — Skills function like moves, containing narrative outcomes for different dice results.
- Solo Oracle — Includes a 'very, very useful solo sheet, this solo oracle for everything that you would need.'
- Supplements — Features official supplements like 'The Tattered Leaves' (forest crawl) and 'Hillgr' (urban adventures).
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's Fun to Go Alone. This is the top 10 solo RPGs.
- As a matter of fact, I've done an episode on uh solo analog dungeon crawl.
- And boy howdy did I fall in love with this game.
- This is a game that that treats the kind of spirituality and folklore and mythology of the Japan in a very very respectful nature.
- Holy crap, what a game. I love this game. It is so much fun.
- This game is super super simple.
- The simplicity can be a little confusing because as you're reading the rules, you're kind of like, 'Oh, wait. That's it. I don't get it.'
- Morgborg, man, what a game. I love this game so much.
- The solo rules that made me understand solo role playing.
- The generosity liberal thirdparty licensing.
- Scarlet Heroes really is the game that made solo role playing click with me.
- This is an all inone solution with some of the best, most useful solo oracles and rules I have ever played.
- The urban adventure rules in Scarlet Heroes handle that really well, better than just about any other game I've played.
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 18:31
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I've been trying to walk with the boot. Well, I not walk, but I I I have a boot that I put on, but I keep it off most of the time because I'll be honest with you, it is bigger and bulkier than the cast.
- The lots that we do have, okay, everybody's waiting to find out what what's been bid on and and you know, it's been not that bad, but
- This may be probably the best baseball game I've ever played and I can't believe I didn't know about it.
- It is the most realistic, fast-paced, easy to learn baseball game I've I've ever played.
- This is a game that has everything except cold beer and hot dogs.
- I'm really on the fence with keeping Chronicles of Drungore.
- I think I'm going to more talk about the expansion than show it because the quality of the prototype isn't good.
- This game feels like you're playing Sidmer Pirate and nothing better than finding treasure, going through life, taking people down, you know, sinking ships, taking them.
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Stonemaier Games Top List at 4:43 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Elegantly designed.
- Incredibly simple to administer.
- Solo mode is enjoyable.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- A mad dash race for resources from within a sinking tower
- A mysterious vortex where an ancient tower is sinking
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Beat your own score solo mode — The solo mode is a beat your own score type.
- Resource gathering — Build devices to gather resources from within the tower.
- Sky machines — Fly your sky machines up to the various floors.
- Worker placement (solo AI) — The solo mode works similarly to other worker placement games where the AI will block places you can go and build.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm literally filming this at the midway mark of 2026. It's June 30th, 2026 right now, and I'm going to talk about my favorite games...
- These are the games that I played for the first time in the first half of this year, and these are my favorites.
- At number six, spoiled it in advance a little bit. This is Flip Tunes.
- This is such a clever clever concept. It's what drew me to the game.
- And so you're kind of you have this built-in timer for the game of will the game spell priorities before the players do.
- I love that you're scoring based on what other cards are played are played by other players and you're scoring based on what you actually drafted. Such a clever system.
- This is my number one game of 2026 so far.
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 17:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cool anime style art
- Fairly straightforward gameplay
- Satisfying euro gameplay
- Unique passing mechanic
- Asymmetric player abilities are fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Rebuilding and managing resources in a collapsing city
- A city that is slowly falling
Comparison games
- Lost Ruins of Arnack
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players take actions until they can no longer afford to do so and choose to pass.
- Asymmetric Player Powers — Each player has a unique ability that guides their strategy.
- Resource Management — Players spend resources to perform actions and gain more resources.
- Tableau Building — Players build buildings onto layers of a falling city.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey friends, it is Jenna. What is up?
- And welcome back to the board game garden.
- June ended up being a very board game-filled month.
- I still can't get over the fact that we're still playing trick- taking games that are completely different than all other trick- taking games, but I feel like overall the base game of trick taking works really well with being changed and manipulated in different ways.
- Oh my goodness, this thing broke me.
- Remember, you are somebody's reason to smile.
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Brains On Games Discussion at 4:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Social, accessible entry point for new players
- Quick rounds suit a convention setting
Cons
- Luck can dominate under some circumstances
Thematic elements
- poker-style bluffing and social interaction
- Ludicon 2025 convention floor, Montreal, Canada
- casual demo-and-playthrough
Comparison games
- Sky Team
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Betting — poker-style betting mechanic driving decisions
- Betting and Bluffing — poker-style betting mechanic driving decisions
- bluffing — players attempt to mislead opponents about intent or strength
- Hand Management — managing a hand of cards or equivalents to optimize outcomes
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Ludicon is an event where people get to gather and play games all weekend.
- This is a great convention and I think a convention that was a great size.
- There are 109 tables.
- Crokinol is the perfect game. It's a classic game. It's been around for years. It was invented in Canada, which I really like.
- Sky Team last year, which was huge everywhere or really an award-winning game.
- Tag Team has nothing to do though with Sky Team. It's an auto battler with deck building elements.
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Meeple Mountain Discussion at 0:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Appeal to families with familiar characters
- Broad thematic variety implied by the description
Cons
- Transcript provides limited direct critique
- Specific gameplay depth is not confirmed in the clip
Thematic elements
- Fairy tales, storybook characters, historical figures
- Fairy tale and historical figures collide in a shared world
- Story-driven, modular narratives
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — influence regions through character placement
- area_control — influence regions through character placement
- Set Collection — collect character cards to score points
- set_collection — collect character cards to score points
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Colors of Paris is the latest from Super Meeple, a French publisher that typically brings back classic heroes like Attica, Telegraph or Mississippi Queen.
- Saurus is a fast and furious just quick playing well drafting game.
- little dragon egg needs to become a baby dragon.
- Incubation is the debut game from its publisher Connelly Synapse James.
- Colors of Paris this is the latest from super meeple, a French publisher that typically brings back classic heroes like Attica.
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Board Games for One Discussion at 5:56 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I wanted this one actually because I wanted a big place to put a topper.
- I wanted the empty space underneath. I wanted space for games.
- overall, I'm quite happy with it.
- I do not get any affiliate bonuses. This is not sponsored, but they did provide the desk for review.
- Next video you're going to see is a review of Uprising specifically for the true solo mode coming soon.
- I've still got plenty more space here for plenty more games.
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