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2019
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Description
Your ship has sustained massive damage, is falling apart around you, and is drifting toward the ultimate catastrophe, a black hole. You are alone.
Your challenge in Lux Aeterna is to draw and play all of the cards in the main deck, one turn after another, without the spaceship collapsing completely or falling into the black hole. Cards have multiple functions; you will assign drawn cards to one each of these functions each turn:
As damage to a system (with six systems available to you);
As an action to help stay alive/fix the ship; or,
As movement toward the black hole.
If a ship's system collapses, the game will get harder for you; if you should repair a system, then you just might avoid the ultimate doom.
Events (called "glitches") can be seeded into the main deck to make things even more difficult, as will reducing the real time that you have to play: 12 minutes -> 10 minutes -> 8 minutes, etc.
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Tabletop Tokki Playthrough at 0:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging solo puzzle with strong space exploration flavor
- Rich dice and card interaction
- Clear path to scoring through repairs and proximity mechanics
Cons
- RNG elements from glitches can feel unpredictable
- Rulebook can be dense for new players
- Timed-play may not suit everyone
Thematic elements
- Survival, space exploration, time pressure
- Deep space near a black hole; ship repair journey to return home
- Solo, first-person playthrough with reflective commentary
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Manipulation — adjust die values via actions and card effects; can flip to opposite faces
- deck-draw and card-cycling — draw four cards per turn, convert cards to online/offline states, discard glitches
- dice-manipulation — adjust die values via actions and card effects; can flip to opposite faces
- glitch mechanics — random negative events that can damage systems unless mitigated
- Hand Management — allocate card values to events, actions, speed, and store for future rounds
- hand-management — allocate card values to events, actions, speed, and store for future rounds
- Resource Management — manage energy, life, power, speed, and system online/offline status
- resource- and system-management — manage energy, life, power, speed, and system online/offline status
- timed progression and scoring — proximity to the black hole affects scoring; win condition can occur via deck depletion or sufficient repairs
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Quotes (from this video)
- the rulebook suggests that you try to play the game within 10 minutes i believe
- i'm a huge fan of timed games
- it's definitely not for everyone for sure
- i really enjoy having a timer
- the closer you start to the black hole the more you can add to your score at the end of the game
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Video HO2OKUVEVBA
Board Games for One Top 15 List at 10:37 sentiment: positive
video_pk 89216 · mention_pk 236654
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- tight pacing and tension
- adjustable difficulty via timed vs untimed play
Cons
- time pressure may be stressful for some players
Thematic elements
- time-pressure engineering puzzle
- space station/ship environment with engines and a console
- cooperative, time-bound decision making
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Location-based effects — different locations impose different effects and decisions
- time-constrained action selection — ten-minute real-time or extended modes to repair engines
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Quotes (from this video)
- 15 wallet-sized games that can fit in just one hand
- tiny games that can fit in just one hand
- the first game is actually wallet size and it's from button shy games
- it's great for writing prompts and things like that or just if you need some relaxation maybe even a little therapy
- this is the best solo hidden movement game that I've played
- an awesome one to two player game super crunchy decisions where you are playing Bonnie and Clyde on a road trip
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Heavy Cardboard Discussion at 1:02:48 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really really great
- Stressful and great
Cons
- Name not fully visible in the picture
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Quotes (from this video)
- the colonist and I feel so bad for whoever had to sort that afterwards
- Yakob this is how you should store your games you're never going to play them more than once
- ah World War II war game number 567
- this is Atlantic Chase
- we're going to be getting started late just so you know it's probably going to be 7:30 but um this is this is what I'm streaming here in about an hour and a half realistically cuz uh uh stress btic Odyssey is still set up on the table
- stress btic Odyssey is still set up on the table
- it's going to take me a solid 40 minutes to put up stress spct Odyssey
- this feels like a a worthy game for a giveaway
- this is Weather Machine from VTO lerta
- what's your best piece of corrective criticism what what's something that we could do better here on heavy cardboard
- I'd like to hear that as well that's that's actually a really great idea
- the community is really amazing uh inclusive welcoming Comm Community
- if you are watching this and not a patreon I'll see you tomorrow night for laav otherwise if you're a patreon I'll see you in about 90 minutes
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Video 33ZRSDG6xog
The Dice Tower Discussion at 1:44 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81387 · mention_pk 201716
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting ideas
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Race against time to repair your spaceship before you're sucked into a black hole
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Secrets. This is a Bruno Faidutti Eric Lang game. It's kind of like a social deduction game where each It has some of these nice poker chips. You're on different things, taking things. It works well. It's not great, but I think it was a solid little game.
- Tapple's one of these games that I'm always I'm It's just It still sold very well. It's mass market, but it works incredibly well.
- I just really didn't like it at all. And I like Isle of Cats. I think it's fun. I didn't I this was a great follow up.
- Wow, I love the look of this game. So many neat things you're going through and as the the the character here and just rolling dice up, it's just very lucky. It's a big choose your own adventure game that's very lucky. I wish I liked it more.
- FunkoVerse Strategy Game. Eight out of 10 for me. I really like the FunkoVerse Strategy Game.
- This is basically just giant sandworms coming and you're jumping cars and shooting them. It has all the silliness of the series of movies and I think it's it's one of those movies that could have been an IP, but but isn't.
- Manhattan Project 2. No, I thought the newest one was okay. But this one I actively disliked.
- Curse Court's a great game. I've played Curse Court I think two or three times this year already, which is a lot considering I have to I play lots of new games.
- Well, it's kind of weird. I I mean, on one hand, my favorite is Curse Court, the one I just mentioned. But, also Kids Chronicles: Quest for the Moonstones is a pretty fantastic kids game. So, I have a lot of respect for that.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top 100 List at 8:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- short, tense solo experience
- tight, thematic gameplay
Cons
- real-time may be stressful for some players
Thematic elements
- survival under catastrophic pressure
- spacefaring crew on a dying spaceship
- solo storytelling through real-time card play
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Use cards to record damage and repairs
- hand_management — Use cards to record damage and repairs
- real_time_play — Real-time card play to manage ship systems
- Real-Time — Real-time card play to manage ship systems
- timed_challenge — Glitch event cards add challenges
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's like the matrix the only way to understand it is to experience it for yourself
- what does that mean
- stay alive period get harder
- the social train is a new type of social network, and it's also an actual locomotive
- dragons who live inside of an active volcano what do they eat unsuspecting samurai
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