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Year
2019
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Description
Control monsters to steal candies!
In Kingdom's Candy: Monsters, you are a villain eager to accumulate candies. You use monsters as servants to help you in your mission, but if you don't feed your monsters, they will eat your candies and run away! Use sugar cubes to cast spells and activate monster abilities.
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Light, chaotic, social interaction that appeals to party crowds
- Accessible and quick to teach with goofy flavor
Cons
- Light in weight; may not satisfy heavier gamers
- Theme is very campy, not for all tastes
Thematic elements
- Take-that, mischief, and candy-based power struggles
- Fantasy kingdom where candy is the resource and monsters are the workforce
- cartoonish, humorous, competitive party game atmosphere
Comparison games
- Other light take-that party games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- monster-as-servant paradigm — Monsters execute abilities and require feeding to prevent failure
- press-your-luck — Shaping the outcome by risking dice or tokens to gain more candy
- Push Your Luck — Shaping the outcome by risking dice or tokens to gain more candy
- Take That — Players actively hinder opponents to gain advantage
- Take-that mechanics — Players actively hinder opponents to gain advantage
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Quotes (from this video)
- "as you play, you are forces of nature molding the planet with competing visions"
- "an economic commodity speculation game set in the Renaissance"
- "in aqua mirabilis you in this game take on the role of a perfumer whose goal is to produce novel and exquisite perfumes to the king and his court"
- "cat cafe is a dice rolling press your luck party game"
- "Inquisitor is a cooperative murder-mystery game based on a novel with a historical religious setting"
- "La Stanza is a fast-paced board game in which players take the role of patrons of the arts"
- "Kingdoms Candy Monsters a take that, press your luck party game"
- "you are a villain eager to accumulate candies to accomplish this"
- "if you don't feed your monsters they'll eat all your candy and run away"
- "you aim to collect loot tiles with your Robin and then sell collections all of the same colour"
- "the game is a cooperative modular tile placement city building game"
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