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From the back cover:
Man Dies Three Times in One Night!
A puzzling headline begins a front-page article found in the Times of London. Three men, all identical in identification, were found in the same room of the Chelsea Arms. All were dispatched in the same manner - stabbed through the heart.
Then the home of a valued friend burns to the ground, severely burning him in the process. An odd summons, a surreptitious meeting, and a thousand-mile journey begins on the legendary rail service carrying the investigators to the Gateway of the Orient.
Orient Express contains a massive adventure for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Beginning in 1920s London, the investigators journey to Paris and thence to the ancient city of Constantinople. With luck, they may also return home. Four books are contained within, Through the Alps, Italy and Eastern Europe, Constantinople & Return, and Strangers On The Train. In addition there are numerous player handouts: a European route map; luggage stickers; scrolls; passports; 25mm cardstock plans of the train that can be laid end-to-end; and fragments of an ancient artifact collected along the way.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Breath of fresh air due to unique setting
- Oozes atmosphere and theme
- Engaging story elements
- Innovative event bag system
- Push-your-luck mechanic is engaging
- Diverse and unique characters
- Thematic spellcasting with consequences
- Balanced cooperative gameplay
- Monsters are manageable and not always overwhelming
Cons
- Table presence is a hindrance; difficult to play with more than two people due to component layout.
- Player boards and extra components create clutter.
- Expansion character portraits don't fit boards.
- Game can become a 'play not to lose' scenario if cultists are identified early.
- The number on the locomotive dial doesn't directly affect train speed.
- The suspect information can be a nuisance to track physically.
Thematic elements
- Investigating cultists on a train before time runs out.
- A train
Comparison games
- Cthulhu: Death May Die
- Elder Tour
- Arkham Horror
- Arkham Horror: The Card Game
- Eldritch Horror
- Frostpunk
- Destinies
- Arkham Horror Living Card Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character progression — Characters can level up their actions and gain special skills.
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve the win condition.
- Deduction — Players must deduce which passengers are cultists based on various clues and conditions.
- Event Bag — An event bag is used to draw chips that trigger game events and monster activations.
- Push Your Luck — The 'talk' action involves drawing tokens in a push-your-luck style to gain information.
- Resource Management — Players manage essence and stamina throughout the game.
- Variable player powers — Each character has unique actions and abilities.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I do think that it is a breath of fresh air.
- The biggest issue that I have with this game is while the table presence is cool, it is actually kind of a hindrance in playing the game.
- This game literally should be for just one or two people.
- It feels like a game of old.
- This game, you know, seeps atmosphere and theme.
- I like the fact that there's all these different ways that you can lose, but they've done a really good job of balancing all of those.
- The characters are incredibly diverse.
- I do kind of wish that the cultists, not cultists, the suspects were app-driven.
- It's a very balanced cooperative game that is just unfortunately hindered by the way you have to play it, which is on one side of the table.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 8:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Horror
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- All right, everybody. Welcome to the most boring unboxings on the planet Earth as we take a look at stuff that comes into the Dice Tower and we see what we get.
- All right, folks. There you go. Another most boring unboxing on the planet Earth. Thanks so much as always for watching. Until the next time. I'm Tom Vasel.
- Hey folks, I'm Tom Vasel. Thanks for watching this video. Check out our channel. We have a lot of videos on our channel. We have live videos that go up each week from live Q&As to videos where we take a look at the newest stuff on Kickstarter crowd surfing to top 10 lists and more. There's lots of stuff on this channel. We encourage you to explore it. You can find out more at our website dicetower.com. I'm Tom Vasel. Thanks for watching another video on the Dice Tower.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 19:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fantastic campaign
- Easy to replace characters
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Call of Cthulhu scenario
- on a train
- The scenario takes place on a train as it travels, allowing for new characters to be introduced at stops.
Comparison games
- Call of Cthulhu
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character replacement — New characters can be introduced easily as if they just got on the train, allowing for quick replacement of eliminated characters.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we would play Warhammer I think I said it last time we would start Warhammer at like 9 A.M on a Saturday and like not until 9 p.m one combat we would play one massive three on three four on four yeah three to five thousand points each which is oh dude I wish I had photos oh my God and everybody's stuff was painted it was so great that was so great gaming yeah it was a great game
- that's when I remember the stupid toads plan the slam the salon of course you know since it was the newest army at the time was so massively overpowered because that sells armies yeah powerful Army so minis yeah and we were all like dwarfs were screwed
- I remember playing one time and I'm like I don't really know how this works but let's just see and I put it out there and this guy runs across with his General on a dragon and he got warped and destroyed in a second and it was like turn one and I'm like oh no what are you gonna do for the because that was like half his points right
- we were playing a blood Bowl league and I had like a chaos team for my blood Bowl team and so my my star player was a Minotaur and and then you have lineman and then like and that's basically your proper League of that the blood bowl like so the blood Bowl chaos team your whole thing is is that you're not fast but everybody is super strong and so you just you just March you just slowly March down and you injure every single one of them can't play around yeah yeah you just you just Smash and you basically you score a touchdown as fat like you knock somebody down you score a touchdown you spend the rest of the game not even worried about the ball you just sit there and just pound people that's what they do
- it was like the second turn of the game and like his star like Blitzer guy on like his elf team and at least like he he was just within range I could do my double Blitz with my with my Minotaur zip zip roll it was like and I got it all higher no it was like it was like boom injured roll again 12. dead
- Games Workshop all the time for their prices and this to anything but you know man there they have some solid solid games and blood bowl is an extremely solid game however it it desperately needs an updated computer game of it because the computer game the blood Bowl has is like it's from like seven eight years ago but it's it's fun to play and you can play it online with people me and Rob Oren used to play it a lot
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Watch It Played Top 10 List at 1:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Feels like the RPG in a board game form
- Dangerous and creepy
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Investigating dark secrets on the Orient Express
- The 1920s
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Board game version of Call of Cthulhu — The game is a board game adaptation of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG system.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Horror on the Orient Express the board game which is in development and lures players into the luxurious yet dangerous interiors of the most famous train of the 1920s from hideous monsters crawling out of breeches to cultists hiding among the decadent passengers everything is against you including time race against the clock as you investigate the dark secrets of the Orient Express
- Oh man nothing is more truly on my radar right now than this game I literally gasped when I saw it announced Call of Cthulhu is my favorite tabletop RPG system and now there's going to be a board game version of it
- Everything ever is the party game that you've already been preparing for your entire life
- bunny kingdom in which resourceful rabbits spread their presence across a grid of 100 locations building new cities to increase their influence providing resources to their colonies and secretly rallying rabbit Lords and recruiting skillful Masters as they plan their strategy to score big at the end of the game
- I just recently tried this game for the first time on board game arena and I think I love it
- dog's fine rule the skies in 20 minutes
- what we both picked this tactical World War One war game in which two Fearless Flyboys duel each other across the sky the one where to gain the upper hand a pilot must maneuver themselves behind their Airborne adversary and shoot at exactly the right moment
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Watch It Played News Update at 8:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- cooperative mystery in a luxurious yet dangerous train
- 1920s Orient Express with dreamlike/occult elements
Comparison games
- Horror on the Orient Express (Call of Cthulhu integration)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — co-op adventure on a train setting.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Follow the link in this video's description to find it and fight as your favorite star such as Chris Jericho Chris statlander Sting mjf Jade Cargill or more
- be aware though each action in battle triggers a reaction
- this looks cool to me
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Meeple University Discussion at 25:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever mechanics
- Smart mechanics
- Fun to play
Cons
- Prototype
Thematic elements
- Horror
- Orient Express
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to deduce who the bad characters are.
- Deduction — Players need to deduce who the bad characters are.
- Dice — Dice represent passengers with different emotional states that affect the game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pantera that was Prototype so I'm able to be bought just taken or whatever a peaceful garden obviously the one that I showed and here is the um the wind farms in Argentina correct correct well not volcano I'd like to probably sorry if I was in Uruguay yes so for on a volcano we just feel like a Harding's game I like to try it still
- nucleum this is also a prototype that I saw this is coming David Torchy's next one yes yes by um by ball and dice so this is one that the same day is actually nuclear but they make it in the alternative world because otherwise you'll probably too controversial for nuclear
- and then the um Star Trek Discovery black alert team assistant yeah that'll be the first Star Trek game in the in the new discovery Universe yep I'll just be um Spore driving all over the place
- and then there's a game called armelo now this there is a video game called amelo and they're making the board game so it'll be exciting I don't know if you play have you played our Melo I haven't actually played I'm a lawyer yet myself have you okay it seems like a good like artwork as well it wasn't on Sega Mega Drive I probably haven't played it
- it seems like a good like artwork as well
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Gaming Rules! Discussion at 30:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- exceptional experience when engaged
- highly thematic and immersive
Cons
- potentially excessive complexity for some players
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- multi-layered mechanisms with theme integration — described as highly complex with many moving parts and a strong thematic experience
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I love Voidfall. I think it's a great game.
- The Gang works brilliantly.
- The digital version of Talisman fifth edition actually has more content than the physical version.
- This is not any kind of criticism on the game itself. It's just my expectations going into it based on the artwork.
- Horror on the Orient Express has a lot going on, but the experience is special.
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Meeple University Discussion at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cooperative gameplay
- Investigative/mystery elements
- Thematic train horror setting
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Lovecraftian horror investigation
- Orient Express train setting
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — Described as a cooperative game (players work together to face horrors).
- cooperative play — Described as a cooperative game (players work together to face horrors).
- Deduction — Investigators aim to identify the cultist.
- investigation/deduction — Investigators aim to identify the cultist.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- horror on the Orient Express is Gen Con
- this is prototype Fox Place I investigators
- this doom doom doom train this looks so good check it out folks
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Before You Play Playthrough
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a prototype so all of these components are prototype components which will probably look different in the final copy
- the train needs to get to Constantinople
- there are many ways to lose in this game
- we are going to be resolving events and bad things will happen
- the vampire will attack in a passenger in the same car
- no way to win unless we identify all cultists
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