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2016
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Description
You and your fellow players are architects at Luna Mare, the architectural firm planning the first base on the moon. You will compete with your coworkers for access to building blueprints, astronauts, and construction resources- all to develop the most successful moonbase!
Lunarchitects is a medium-weight strategy game that has players moving their pawns forward in a refilling circular queue to claim building blueprints. Players use the claimed blueprints to build personal moonbase plans in front of them. But instead of turns proceeding clockwise, the player furthest behind in the queue always takes the next turn. This makes blueprint choices a matter of quality over quantity.
Blueprints from four stages are shuffled then stacked, with stages increasing in both cost and power. Each time all players complete a lap of the blueprint queue, scoring occurs- and the game ends after the fourth round of scoring. The player who has collected the most points is the winner, and their plans will guide the creation the first settlement on the moon!
Unknown tile arrangement and variable scoring schemes (determined before the start) makes the game very replayable, as there is never a single most-powerful strategy.
Inspired by the well-loved game Glen More, Lunarchitects is a family game for 1-5 players that plays in about an hour.
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kovray Monthly Recap at 21:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great experience to play with friends
- Led to plans to play Paladins
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Paladins
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The action selection in this game the complexity the symbols it just hits in the best way possible.
- It's very every step really matters and every decision you make really matters.
- it's just a game that really just drawn me in right from the start.
- Every single time i've played this game I've tried a different strategy and it just amazes me the different strategies that I've personally been able to come up with.
- This is their second game that's kind of like the heavier rolling rate and it's just wonderful and I definitely think it rivals Fleet.
- it's a gorgeous gorgeous i think even like every little detail in that game is just fascinating.
- it's such a unique game in that sense too where you can use your opponents as well and use their resources.
- I had a really hard time of like mapping through the different like ways to do things and accomplish things and it really like it chugged at my brain.
- everyone's described it to us as like a battle yahtzee and that's a very accurate description of what it is.
- I love that it's the simplicity and the sheer joy in it.
- It's such a fast game right if you think about a drafting game like that and you're like oh it'll take a while but this boom like it's just because it's like two two sets two handfuls.
- I love games like this they always bring me a lot of joy.
- this is a great introductory gamecheck game that we can definitely play with many of our fans.
- there's a campaign within this game.
- the replayability in this game is significant but it also draws you in right from the start.
- this absolutely stunningly beautiful amazing game called winter haven woods.
- it's a set collection drafting game.
- it's very like quick easy easy to teach and super adorable like it just gives a lot of good vibes.
- it's so hard to get back to it because you just have to remember so much.
- we did play architects which was great and the best part about it is now that we've played architects with our our friends we made we're making plans to play paladins.
- it's also a deck builder so i'm pretty excited about it.
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kovray Top 10 List at 3:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- It's in the middle of difficulty but it's also very approachable.
- It's a good intro to Stonemaier games for sure.
Cons
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think this game deserves much more love than it has gotten
- it's a work replacement in real time which is just brilliant
- this one is a lot of fun it's super super random it's also really it's kind of chaotic
- I really like the combos of rice
- Scout is amazing it's a game you can bring anywhere it's small it's compact
- it's like pattern laying
- it made my brain explode and I want more of that
- who doesn't love Marvel United it's very fun
- it's super well done I think it's a lot of fun
- Zap Attack it was very fun and we still haven't gone back to it and we should because it was a really good game
- Yak is fun it's very cool because you just like go around and try to collect resources build up these cubes to build up your pyramid and then score points based on how you've grouped all of your different color uh cubes and it's it's it's simple it's easy and the um Yaks alone are amazing and they go around there they're so cute and there's a little baby yak
- what is our Z game we only have one and it's called zapotec which we both really want to play yes it's gonna play this yes we have wait when did we play it about a year ago I'm thinking of um yeah yeah we played zap okay Zap Attack it was very fun and we still haven't gone back to it and we should because it was a really good game
- it's just been so long that's what happens when you have so many games
- well that's been at least recommendations 26 recommendations there are some doubles in there but you know what we'll let you do the math how many games you recommended let us know in the comments down below not like we can compare our lists or anything does Tyler's double game count we don't know we'll find out boom
- well if you've played any of these games that we've mentioned and you would also recommend them to other people in the board gaming hobby or who want who you want to play board games with let us know down in the comments below what are some of the games we missed and if you're feeling ambitious for it why you type the alphabet down the whole suggestions go from your collection because we love to hear what your recommendations are for each letter and which letter do you have the most games of true bars is s s
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kovray Top 10 List at 10:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- good introduction to worker placement
- fast-paced turns with deep strategy
- engagement with the broader trilogy
Cons
- heavier weight may deter beginners
Thematic elements
- worker placement, resource management, cathedral building, reputation
- medieval city building (West Kingdom Trilogy)
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Engine Building — Engine grows faster as you place workers and gain resources.
- engine_building — Engine grows faster as you place workers and gain resources.
- jail_and_control_of_citizens — Send workers to jail to influence resource flow and scoring.
- Worker Placement — Place workers to gather resources, build, and advance goals.
- worker_placement — Place workers to gather resources, build, and advance goals.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a blast to play
- it's easy to teach
- The storybook is incredible here
- it's a quick little draft City Builder that's a lot of fun
- there's asymmetric characters that you can play with different goals then track together in a very unique way
- I think we played a fair bit of times now
- we're gonna do a giveaway of one of them
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kovray Top List at 14:43 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
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none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- unknown (mentioned as comparison) — not explicitly described here; referenced in contrast to Paladins.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Cozy Sticker Ville. It is such a cute game.
- Yeah, it's cozy. It's fun. It reminds me of Stardew.
- The art is fantastic. It's like this old I don't know exactly what year is probably 70s vibe maybe.
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Maple University Discussion at 6:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we sold out of wingspan in about two hours
- I really like a game that you can get immersed in the feeling.
- anybody who watches this video likes me paper University and our Facebook page use the code Maple University 10 for 10% discount for the next four weeks
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