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Year
2018
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Description
Ganymede is a development and tableau-building game in which players are corporations specialized in sending settlers to colonize the universe. To do so, you will recruit settlers on Earth, use shuttles to transport them to Mars, then to Ganymede where the settlers' ships launch base is located.
The game ends when a player has launched four settlers' ships into space. Players score VP from their launched ships and from their reputation track.
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Allies or Enemies Top 100 List at 5:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- tight, bite-sized decisions
- engaging engine-building feel
Cons
- can feel tight on turn timing for beginners
Thematic elements
- engine-building with card interactions
- space exploration to moons and planets
Comparison games
- Isle of Cats
- Tillotum
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card play with chaining bonuses — play cards to move astronauts and resources across bodies and unlock bonuses
- color/resource matching and color-switching — resources by color drive actions; color matching enables advanced moves
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's such an interesting mix of card Drafting and tile placement
- the asymmetry is fascinating
- it's a really clever game
- this is a racing betting game
- the cluster of eight cards can be incredibly powerful
- it's a cozy, cooperative puzzle
- the engines really click when you chain the bonuses
- it's a game of inches
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Chairman of the Board Top List at 7:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed-to-positive
Pros
- accessible engine-building progression
- balance between short-term gains and long-term power
Cons
- not as mass-market as Splendor
- could have broader appeal
Thematic elements
- move meeples from planet to planet and to spaceships for scoring
- space-age planetary exploration
Comparison games
- Splendor
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — cards determine actions and meeple movement
- engine-building — progressively strengthen actions as you tuck cards under the board
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love the scoring mechanism in this game
- it's a great progression from a game like Carcassonne
- this game had a tendency to go too long
- one-trick pony ... not really a game we're ever going to go back to
- this for me should have been a 45 minute game sadly sometimes it did end up 90 minutes
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