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Year
2018
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Description
Time passes by quickly and industries are taking advantage of resources held in an archipelago of islands and its coral reefs. Your team of divers is fighting against time to protect the archipelago and turn it into a national park before the fishing, petrol and tourism industries get complete control of it and destroy the coral reefs.
Show the government that species diversity is wide enough to justify the coral reef transformation into a national park and you’ll win the game! If you fail, the industries will take over and exploit the islands and the coral reefs until the ecosystem is completely destroyed. Will you be able to demonstrate the extent of the coral reef diversity before it’s too late?
Discover the underwater world in this shorter, smaller and streamlined version of DiverCity! You'll only use cards and several tokens to try to accomplish your goal in Mini DiverCity.
—description from the publisher
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Board Game Coffee Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- High-fives inducing cooperative gameplay
- Quick playtime (15-20 minutes per game)
- Easy to learn rules
- Excellent for both kids and experienced players when using variants
- Portable and compact size
- Memorable and engaging hidden hand mechanic
- Great filler game for gaming collections
- Multiple difficulty levels and variant rules for replayability
Cons
- Extremely high difficulty level even on easiest setting
- Corporation deck is excessively punishing and unforgiving
- High luck/randomness factor may frustrate some players
- Box art may appeal more to parents than the target audience
- Winning is significantly less frequent than losing
Thematic elements
- Environmental conservation and stopping corporate exploitation
- Tropical archipelago with coral reefs and marine life
- Cooperative mission-based gameplay
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative hand management — Players work together with hands facing outward, managing cards to save marine life
- Hand Management — Players work together with hands facing outward, managing cards to save marine life
- Hidden Information — Players cannot see their own cards, adding significant randomness to decision-making
- Push Your Luck — High randomness in the corporation deck creates challenging win conditions
- push-your-luck — High randomness in the corporation deck creates challenging win conditions
- scaling difficulty — Players can adjust difficulty level at game start and use beginner/team variants
- Worker Placement — Players perform actions such as playing cards to save creatures, discarding to flip hotels, or using walkie-talkies to communicate
- Worker placement/Card play — Players perform actions such as playing cards to save creatures, discarding to flip hotels, or using walkie-talkies to communicate
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Quotes (from this video)
- Don't get me wrong, I think the art in Mini Diversity is great but it's got a kind of educational cool something only teachers and out-of-touch parents would think that's what their kids want
- Childlike appeal aside, don't let this box fool you. Mini Diversity is hard, I mean like silly hard
- These are not nice people (referring to the evil corporations)
- I got the sense that Mini Diversity is geared more toward the parent than the child
- I like the risk of sacrificing my turn to tell my teammate that she's holding two hammerheads and an eel
- We here at board game coffee are not a lucky people
- The corporation deck has got to be one of the most unforgiving decks of punishment I have ever encountered
- If you ever manage to beat this game on to the side in Mini Diversity's hardest difficulty level, let me know in the comments so I can call you out for lying
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Board Game Coffee Top List at 0:47 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Good for large groups (1-7 players)
- Engaging, family-friendly theme
- Cooperative experience with satisfying moments when successful
Cons
- Very challenging even on the easiest setting
- May require house rules or modifications for some groups
Thematic elements
- Environmental protection, teamwork against external threats
- Sea-life and coral reef protection theme, players cooperate to thwart evil corporations
- Cooperative puzzle with a light environmental message
Comparison games
- Citadels
- Love Letter
- Tiny Epic Galaxy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to achieve a common objective: saving sea life from corporate threats
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve a common objective: saving sea life from corporate threats
- group objective/mission-based play — A shared goal defines success; individual actions support the team's mission
- hand visibility / exposure — Players hold cards facing outward toward others, influencing decisions and bluffing dynamics
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Mini Diversity is a one to seven player game
- it's extremely hard even on its easiest setting
- it's a card bluffing game and it's drafting
- three seems to for me is the perfect number
- Tiny Epic Galaxy is there is a lot of strategy in this tiny little box
- Doxy - it's the perfect size
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