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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
- Decent theme
- Company listened to fans about a variant
- 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
- Moonshiners trying to escape in a hot air balloon
- Backwater shanty town
- Attempted Alabama backwater writing
- 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
Quotes (from this video)
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- 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