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Year
2019
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Vibe profile
Waiting on more creator content
Description
Moonshiners of the Apocalypse is a morally questionable, not so cooperative mashup of town-building, 4x game for 2-4 players, with a tad of dice combat. In other words, Moonshiners is the one game you need to stay away from if you worry about dark humor, morally questionable choices and drinking with your enemies until they pass out.
Set in an alternative post-apocalyptic 1920's, players compete over exploring and re-building the deserted "Shanty Town". Explore and discover, scavenge for resources and build houses for the poor survivors. All of this while fighting off the hordes of disgruntled crowds that roam the town with the sole purpose of messing with your precious achievements.
Did I say fight? I meant drink them under the table. Arm yourself with a crate of the strongest booze, some hangover aid and start drinking, because any unchallenged enemy will hunt you down and wreck your buildings.
Explore, expand, exploit and exterminate, scavenge for resources, raise distilleries, produce moonshine and sell it into your Saloons to maximize the profits, because when time is up, only one Hero will be able to pay for the ride out of "Shanty Town" and win the game.
—description from the publisher
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 1:09:01 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Very Negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Extremely fiddly and messy resource management
- Cheap components and misleading marketing
- Lack of explanation for event deck
- Poor component quality (standees vs. miniatures)
- Dumb and nonsensical mechanics (e.g., rolling for placement, drinking to fight)
Thematic elements
- Resource Gathering for Survival
- Post-apocalyptic Junkertown
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — if you control that area to be able to get more resources
- Dice Rolling — how you put them on the board was you rolled a d20 right
- Resource Management — it was a resource gathering where you were trying to find things within the apocalypse to survive
- Tile Placement — as more tiles got flipped more people showed up
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Quotes (from this video)
- um the criteria and brad and i never talk about like criteria uh for uh our list prior um we usually just i we hey here's an idea let's just run with that
- i mean i the theme is like you're supposed to be kind of like these low life uh kind of scoundrels okay space pirates and stuff but then there's these bad things coming so then you are all aboard this ship and you're trying to save the galaxy so your deck willing to make your ship stronger and give more weapons and do all this crap and it was probably one of the worst deck builders i've ever played
- kdm kingdom death monster is my number one
- the base pledge for this game is 400
- the game feels like it was done in the early 2000s the issues that they have with this game are things that they've carried over into what games have evolved from to this day so it doesn't fit their lore
- now it's quality or it's uh uh uh quantity over quality that it just keeps just bloating and bloating and bloating this is the exam best example of what a kickstarter shouldn't be because it's not streamlined and refined
- people who love this game they love this game they're on reddit they're on facebook they're just jacking it to these you know they have those pin up things they have pinups and it's like people like just it's like look dude do you need to talk to someone
- it's the emperor's new clothes
- the the everything's blank that was a troll game
- the gameplay was horrible obviously because it's not a game really
- everyone's gonna hate me that i put kdm as number one
- that game is the perfect example of how busted kickstarter can be um because you get shitholes like this they get funded and for no real reason then you get stuff like that where it's like yeah i mean they did nothing even though it was a kind it was almost kind of a gag project
- people who love this game i don't think it's denial i think they've spent so much money that they force themselves to like it
- because i guarantee you all the problems that this game had if it was a 70 100 game people would just [ __ ] on it and throw it away nope now when you spend 400 you have to trick yourself into liking it
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 10:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique and interesting theme (post-apocalyptic 1920s moonshining).
- Cooperative town building and 4X elements are appealing.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Cooperative town building with dark humor and morally questionable choices.
- Post-apocalyptic 1920s shanty town.
- Players explore, scavenge, build, and fight off disgruntled crowds while dealing with the consequences of their actions.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X elements — The game is described as a 4X game, suggesting elements of eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.
- Cooperative Town Building — Players work together to build and manage a town.
- Dice combat — The game involves dice-based combat against in-game threats.
- Resource Management — Players scavenge for resources needed for building and survival.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- humanity is dying that's it are only a few hours from a before human existence wanes forever
- this seems like it's going to be a very very depressing game
- this is like that alternate oh wow you made some some creatures like you you got some a resource that actually makes fighting these things completely completely different than just killing a regular person
- players left to choose how to how long to remain quiet because time will be of the essence inevitably however the Nazis will discover the presence of the heroes and once the alarm is raised players need to be prepared for all hell to break loose
- it's a fully cooperative realtime tabletop game while you're on a world war ii submarine or of world war ii submarine warfare
- the idea behind the cabana apps to deliver a real-time realistic gameplay experience
- it seems like it's going to be a more gamer like Wiz war
- however this game is phenomenal
- nemesis is pretty much alien the board game kind of like I like war the Rings lower the Rings in the Box this kind of feels like that
- it's a cooperation game so with bluffing backstabbing and other elements of sci fi so it's a semi cooperative game
- this game once it was announced skyrocketed to number one
- the map is the cards so this is what the the map is going to look like
- there's instances where you can run to people who have been you know who have been raped or who want to commit suicide all these grim themes that aren't gonna resonate with a lot of people but I mean like I've said before it's a game you're not condoning the actions it's just part of the world
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 25:44 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Decent theme
- Company listened to fans about a variant
Cons
- Deluxe edition was a downgrade
- Poor component quality
- Unclear rules
- Boring gameplay
- Pointless resource management
- Bad writing
- Broken mechanics
- Company stated they don't have money for deluxe components
Thematic elements
- Moonshiners trying to escape in a hot air balloon
- Backwater shanty town
- Attempted Alabama backwater writing
Comparison games
- Trouble in Temple Town
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — Players are ostensibly working towards an escape.
- Dice Rolling — Used for combat resolution and determining tile placement.
- Resource Management — Players collect resources to trade.
- tile laying — Tiles are laid out to determine available spots.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- viewer discretion is advised
- I was like yeah like worst game those are worth talking about one that's fun to [expletive] about in bad game so I'm always I'm almost slightly more excited to talk about bad games and [expletive] lame to talk about the best games
- I think the delineation we mentioned cuz we've done they're just disappointing is that I would play disappointing if someone's like hey do you want to play and I'll be like sure if someone offered like I'd be like no like no and you're a bad human for even offering this to someone like why do you want to make someone so unhappy
- it's it's the same company that did this game that did the oh the Bob Ross the classy with my yeah yeah yeah deal I mean it's alright yeah whatever
- I'm gonna go on record I think that this is an unfair Pig because he that's like that's like if I want to go back to other end of the year but it's like oh yeah you know commits the worst game that year well I already know I don't like it so no
- if at least those are fun you know story driven games this one oh and the story was [expletive] weird
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