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Miskatonic Tales

Game ID: GID0211677
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Year
2022
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Description

Originally on the 9-card nanogame contest of 2022, this is a Solo game where the player need to solve investigations, allocating dice in the Investigation Slots and manipulating them using Items, to get Clues and closing the portals.
It's a free PnP game, that can be played using only 9 cards a few other components. After the content, 3 more cards were added to give more replayability to the game.

—description from the designer

Description

Originally on the 9-card nanogame contest of 2022, this is a Solo game where the player need to solve investigations, allocating dice in the Investigation Slots and manipulating them using Items, to get Clues and closing the portals.
It's a free PnP game, that can be played using only 9 cards a few other components. After the content, 3 more cards were added to give more replayability to the game.

—description from the designer

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Total mentions: 3
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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video JS-4Ijo5mww Gaming Rules! Other at 28:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Loved the Cthulhu mythos as a theme
  • Story was really good
  • Narrative was really well written
Cons
  • A lot of reading
  • Some questions about rules required seeking clarification
Thematic elements
  • Narrative-heavy, Cthulhu Mythos
  • Cthulhu Mythos
  • Story-driven with chapters
Comparison games
  • Horror on the Orient Express
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • quest resolution — Missions involve being in certain places at certain times, carrying items, and interacting with the environment and characters.
  • Storytelling — The game is heavily driven by story and narrative, with a save game system to play through multiple chapters.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • So yes, if you think my voice is a little bit deeper and a little bit croakier than normal, that's because of it.
  • So, please don't think that my channel is now 100% sponsored playthroughs. It's not.
  • I wanted to support the game because it was really good game and I didn't want people to have uh to, you know, to get caught out uh in the same position as I was in.
  • Yep, that's right. For the second year running, I didn't play a single game at Essen Spiel.
  • So, yes, that's just what I wanted to say quickly before we move on to the next game I want to talk about, which is Severton, which is a sponsored playthrough video.
  • Um, so yes, that's just what I wanted to say quickly before we move on to the next game I want to talk about, which is Severton, which is a sponsored playthrough video.
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Video FKFTI29Oj6c The Broken Meeple Discussion at 38:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • interesting
  • good narrative storytelling
  • can be played in scenarios
  • immersive audio speech available
  • sandbox adventures
Cons
  • 15-hour campaign might be long
Thematic elements
  • Cthulhu horror mystery, narrative storytelling
  • Arkham Horror Universe
  • Choose your own adventure style, paragraph reveals story
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Campaign play — A game played over multiple sessions, with a total playtime of 15 hours.
  • cooperative play — Can be played with a group or solo.
  • scenario play — Can be played in multiple standalone scenarios.
  • Storytelling — Emphasizes narrative and solving cases together.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • March of the Ants is uh from Tim Eisner. So, same guy who did uh Canopy and some guy who did Leaf. Um, and I have talked highly about both of those games. Uh, this one is a reimplementation of an older game, March of the Ants. This is an area control game, quite an aggressive area control game.
  • Now, when you put those two things together along with Board of Dice, you usually expect a very complicated, heavy, oh my god, there's so many rules type game.
  • The demo did a good job of teasing me, thinking, 'Wow, this game didn't feel that complicated.' It was It was very in-depth.
  • This could be one of the better David Turczi games I've played in recent uh you know tried out in recent um years.
  • They didn't want to just make it White Castle with two players because to be honest, White Castle worked best as a two-player game.
  • This is a two-player area control game um where basically you have followers, dudes on the map.
  • But it's beautifully produced. You got these translucent dice, these lovely artwork cards, these wooden followers.
  • Yes. Sorry, there is a spider on one of these pictures. I didn't see that coming, but uh I've seen scarier spiders, but still
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Video zxbW8uEpUJ8 The Broken Meeple Analysis at 10:55 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
  • Potential for immersive audio narration.
Cons
  • Companion app with audio immersion is not yet released.
  • Playing without the app would be a 'shame' and a 'knock on the game'.
  • Bad planning by the company if the app isn't ready at release.
Thematic elements
  • Story-based narrative
  • Immersive audio
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Audio immersion — The game's cover states 'immersive audio included', and the host expects to play with it. The app for this feature has not yet been released.
  • Narrative Game — The host refers to it as a 'story-based narrative game'.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Spike did ages ago. God, that was an old review.
  • I don't take Christmas that seriously really.
  • Call me a Grinch if you like.
  • It's like I don't get that hyped about Christmas.
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