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2020
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Description
In Meeple Towers, you are a master builder! Strategically build your tower to provide the best amenities for your residents. Recruit new workers, raise up sturdy support beams, and stack tiles to create a multi-level 3D structure. Score points based on your contributions, your supporting structures, and how good you make life for your meeples. The builder with the most points wins!
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Meeple University Playthrough at 5:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Tactile, chunky components and 3D tower elements create engaging physical gameplay.
- Highly interactive and cutthroat two-player experiences.
- Concordia-style action selection adds strategic depth.
Cons
- High interaction can be brutal and may not suit casual players.
- Two-player mode can feel punishing; some may find the system complex.
Thematic elements
- construction and stacking of towers with meeples
- three-dimensional tile-laying game with towers and urban-like structures
Comparison games
- Concordia
- Azul
- Carcassonne
- Valley of the Kings
- Star Trek Conflicts
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Coffee shop tokens — Certain placements yield coffee shop meeples and related tokens.
- Concordia-style action pool — Players hold seven identical cards, each offering two actions (place supports, place meeples on terrain, or build tiles).
- End Game Bonuses — Points come from tile placement and under-tile supports; end-of-game bonus tokens influence final scoring.
- end-of-round and end-of-game scoring — Points come from tile placement and under-tile supports; end-of-game bonus tokens influence final scoring.
- First-player selection by hammer — First player is determined by spinning a hammer and following the indicated direction.
- Meeple placement on terrain — Meeples can be placed on specific terrain types (e.g., coffee shop) to score or gain benefits.
- Tiered tile elevation and scoring — Tiles go up the towers as you add levels; meeples may be covered by higher tiles for scoring.
- Tile Placement — Tiles are placed onto the board with structural supports underneath; some tiles require specific under-support via column icons.
- Tile placement with supports — Tiles are placed onto the board with structural supports underneath; some tiles require specific under-support via column icons.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is maple towers it is a three-dimensional tile laying game
- you score points by being the ones to lay the tiles as well
- it's a Concordia style mechanic
- you can't stack more than two up without putting a tile on top of it
- the concordia style card play goes into effect
- this is really handy having lazy susan
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Heavy Cardboard Discussion at 44:12 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
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Comparison games
- Sim City 200000
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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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