Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
Publisher
Pandasaurus Games
Complexity
1.5/5
Collection
Ratings
Creator Score
Mechanic profile
Waiting on more creator content
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Waiting on more creator content
Description
In 街コロライフ / Machi Koro: Life, the newest title in the Machi Koro series, instead of building up cities, players will use engine-building cards to collect "hearts", which represent different aspects of life such as hobbies or jobs, in an effort to ultimately exchange these hearts for "dream" points depicted on another kind of cards on display.
The core mechanisms of rolling one or two dice and activating blue/red/purple cards remain essentially the same, and one can either buy another engine-building card or a card with "dream" points after rolling the dice and obtaining the corresponding amount of hearts.
The first player to obtain 8 dream points will have attained their ideal life and wins the game.
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Board Gaymes James Review at 0:04 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Simple to set up
- Engine building foundation
- Synergistic card combinations are satisfying
- Can be strategic in card acquisition and timing
Cons
- Confusing iconography
- Some card rows are useless or underpowered
- Requires a higher player count to shine
- Some cards are too expensive for their effect
Thematic elements
- Building out a life instead of a city
Comparison games
- Machioro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — You're going to draw out five unique cards. If you got a duplicate, you're just going to stack them.
- Dice Rolling — Then we're going to roll one or two dice. If you choose to roll two dice, you're going to evaluate them together.
- Engine Building — Takes the engine building card driven system of Machioro.
- Hand Management — You're going to collect any hearts that you've got. With all those hearts that you've collected, you may buy one card.
- Set Collection — Gain one collector's items if there are any in the lineup.
- Tableau Building — Whatever the number is, you're going to activate that card that's in your tableau.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The entire game is based off of these cards.
- So you basically you're going to do a lot of reading to start.
- Red cards will activate on other players turns. So you do have to watch what the other players roll. Blue cards will activate on anyone's turn. Once again, watch what you roll. Green cards will activate only on your turn.
- This entire row of cards makes zero sense.
- Every blue card in this should be at least two or three hearts.
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BoardGameCo Review at 16:20
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Machi Koro
- Machi Koro Legacy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Implied by the name 'Machi Koro Light' and the base game's mechanics.
- Set Collection — Implied by the nature of Machi Koro games.
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Quotes (from this video)
- 10 Penny Parks is already much better just with the Innovation expansion alone.
- I'm curious whether playing full through the full arc and I have both the base game and animal doctor rising and expansions. I'm curious if playing through the full arc is going to be like yeah, this is an amazing game and I need to play it all the time or if it'll be like no, that was good.
- My gut instinct is that I think it's going to be a game that I play and then move on I think I'll clear up a full campaign once I'm done with it.
- Cascadia Alpine Lakes is a good example there.
- My son's like, 'Can we Can we finish it?' But he actually wants to start it again. So now we started again to go through it and I've been enjoying that.
- And overall, uh I'm enjoying diving back into it.
- I've always had a soft spot for Machi Koro.
- Machi Koro Legacy, if you if you have an unopened or unplayed, I should say. I don't care if it's opened. If you have an unplayed copy of Machi Koro Legacy, I would like to buy from you.
- speaking of Legacy games. I hope to play Red Cathedral Legacy.
- This is one that I was always excited when I saw it on crowdfunding. It's been on my list to pick up.
- There'll also be a spirit train preview going up on the channel. That campaign has like, you know, a few days left to go.
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BoardGameGeek Rules Teach at 0:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Possible card combos offer strategic depth.
- The theme of building a fulfilling life is central.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Building a life of dreams and fulfillment
Comparison games
- Machi Koro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card activation — Cards are activated based on dice rolls, player's turn status, and card color.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice to activate cards that match the roll.
- Hand Management — Players manage heart tokens (currency) to purchase cards.
- Portfolio Building — Players build a face-up set of cards in front of them, which forms their portfolio.
- Set Collection — Players acquire cards (life cards and dream cards) to build their portfolio and gain abilities or victory points.
- Victory Points — The goal is to reach eight victory points primarily through dream cards.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- They say money can't buy you happiness, but they also said putting your life savings into cryptocurrency was a bad idea. So, what do they know?
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Bower's Game Corner Top List at 12:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Based on the beloved Machi Koro.
- Players use engine building cards.
Cons
- Host realized it's a spin-off, not a definitive version, lowering excitement.
- Description is not very exciting.
- Host did not do much research beforehand.
Thematic elements
- Enjoying hobbies and doing jobs
- Engine building
Comparison games
- Machi Koro
- Catan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Similar to Machi Koro, involves rolling dice and hoping for good outcomes.
- Engine Building — Players use engine building cards representing different aspects.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- There's a mystery to solve with Scooby and the gang in the social deduction game.
- One of those games you can pick up for 20 bucks and you bring it back and people are like, "Oh my gosh, you pick up the greatest games when you go to Gen Con."
- It's so fun.
- I know next to nothing about this game, but I am excited.
- That looks awesome.
- I'm only excited about this for one reason, it's in the tiny box.
- It's a game where you are going to rip, crumble, fold, and twist a small piece of paper.
- It's really cool. You have this 3D puzzle in front of you that you are looking at, and you are going to be you holding it kind of like a steering wheel, and then picking it up and rotating it 90 degrees.
- If you're one of those people who's like, "Yeah, I love trick-taking games. I like trick-taking games and I just have a whole big collection of trick-taking games because all of as long as it does something slightly different."
- And you have me at universal expansion.
- This side game has the unique ability to impact the other game point-wise and stuff like that.
- I love Vampire Survivors.
- It's Emerson Matsuuchi, who is quickly moving up the ranks as one of my favorite game designers of all time.
- The bottom line is it's two-player Werewolf. I'm just intrigued at that, quite frankly.
- We tried it in the press room. We're like, "Wow, this game is super sticky great."
- Now there's a version which you don't have to feel gross when a card comes up about.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Review at 2:29 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- new theme for the Machi Koro series
- maintains core mechanisms
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- building aspects of your life (hobbies, job)
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Engine Building — Players build a card engine to represent aspects of their life and activate various abilities.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice to activate cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
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- Now, Entropy is a big old rondel-powered universe-building Eurogame where scientists bend creation to their will as they create a brand new solar system, coax stars to life, and fuel new biomes all towards the ultimate goal of seeding planets with life.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 7:55:08
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hello everybody. Welcome to the Dice Tower most boring unboxings in the world
- This is a box made by AEG.
- Well, that looks interesting.
- I reviewed Pirate King before. This is a nicer box for it for sure.
- The embargo is as of the moment that I opened it.
- Rocket Ranchers, herding cats in space.
- Sushi Go Party! is a fun little game. It's quick.
- This is a fun little game, it's quick.
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