Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
13+
Playtime
165 min
Complexity
3.2/5
Collection
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Zilla Blitz Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
video_pk 86072 · mention_pk 221953
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Playable solo with a fleshed-out bot system.
- Modern feel compared to Twilight Struggle.
- Good educational potential as a conversation starter for world history.
- Visually easy to parse map design.
- Deep gameplay with regional and sub-regional scoring.
- No need to apply stickers to tokens as they are burned in.
Cons
- No shorter game scenarios (e.g., one or two decades) available, only the full three-decade experience.
Thematic elements
- geopolitical control
- 1989 to 2019
Comparison games
- Twilight Struggle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players are vying for geopolitical control over countries and regions and their sub-regions.
- Bot Play — There's a full solo bot and it's playable by as many as four players. Bots represent unrepresented human players when fewer than four players are involved.
- Card Driven — Very much a card-driven game with 135 cards representing over 100 events.
- Event Driven — The gameplay is all event-driven, with players vying for geopolitical control over countries and regions.
- influence — There are orbit countries within the influence of powers around them.
- Objective Cards — There are 24 objective cards, and fulfilling two of your eight objective cards results in an automatic win.
- Stability — Stability is modeled within the game and can fluctuate, allowing players to destabilize or build up the stability of a country.
- UN Security Council Vetoes — UN Security Council vetoes are a mechanic in the game.
- Wars and Coups — Wars and coups are present in the game, contributing to the fight for geopolitical control.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- In many ways it reminds me of Twilight Struggle on steroids.
- The solo rating on the back of the box is an 8 out of 10, not quite sure why it would be an 8 out of 10 because to me it seems like the solo bots that are in the game here are quite fleshed out so I would give this I mean depends on how we play it out here too but it seems to me it would get a 10 out of 10 and that it's a fully functional soliter player experience here.
- I really like the design on this, once you understand what all the elements mean and how they stand for it's immediately apparent very visually easy to parse a region and to figure out what each thing is worth and how it's all working together.
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Zilla Blitz Other at 9:51 sentiment: positive
video_pk 86095 · mention_pk 222013
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Covers modern events
- Fleshed out solo mode
- Features four superpowers
- Different mechanics
- Incredible design aesthetic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Geopolitical control
- 1989-2019
Comparison games
- Twilight Struggle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Goal is 'geopolitical control of the planet'.
- Card Driven Play — Described as 'card driven play as would be similar to a Twilight Struggle'.
- Solitaire — The host has been looking at the solo bot rules and finds them 'very fleshed out'.
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Quotes (from this video)
- a game that covers the the Battle of alera in the peninsula War down in Iberia Napoleonic ERA this is a a compl reimagining of their first version
- this is kind of a Euro war game hybrid with a very interesting historical theme set in the uh in 5554 BC you play as one of the three client kingdoms either the regnes the brigantes or the ieni who are fighting control fighting for control of Britain
- if you're not familiar with old school tactical it feels like every time I show a video of any kind of tactical combat system on the channel there's always at least three or four comments about people that say hey have you tried old school tactical what do you think about old school tactical
- steel wolves and German Fleet boats so this is Silent War their award-winning game about sub about the entire submarine campaign in World War II in the Pacific takes that system to the Atlantic and you play as ubot commander
- another game that's instant excitement combat volume 4 Eastern Front
- three days of Gettysburg deluxe edition taking us all the way back to GMT games
- this is really going to be the definitive edition of this classic game which has been around first published in 1995
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Zilla Blitz Other at 12:21 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84879 · mention_pk 216511
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting design
- Curious about gameplay
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Geopolitical
- 1989 to 2015
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Geopolitical — A geopolitical game.
- solo system — The host is exploring the solo system.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Got it. Off the line. Another man-to-man combat game. Each counter is a single man, just like in combat 3, but uh combat is a solo game. This is uh it's got solo guidance for it, but it's designed as a two-player game, although it's I think it's going to be very solo friendly.
- I feel like that sort of it's easy for me to sit down when I've got 20 minutes and just cruise through my phone and look at social media, but instead I can play a whole game. And so I think these games offer me an opportunity to do something more interesting than Doomcroll
- when talk about companies that have high production values with their stuff, I mean, of course, we've got the big ones, you know, GMT, Compass Games, and things. Worthington Publishing is right up there with Bua Sims in terms of the quality of their content. The boxes are good, the counters are good, materials are good, the cards are all vinyl. I mean, just really they don't they they make good stuff, too, which is always really nice to see some durability.
- It's going to be something different, right? I mean, it's always good to throw different things in the channel. Something a little bit different, but I think there's enough overlap with it with Wargaming that and and I know there's a lot of football fans on the channel as well.
- 49% no, 51% yes. So roughly 50% half of the people watching this video play miniatures wargaming as well as tabletop board gaming or or play and don't play anything else which was I thought it's more than I thought.
- Miniatures games for me represent the extension of a childhood hobby of mine, which was building and painting model airplane kits. Totally can see that. So you're building the miniatures, painting the miniatures, playing the games. These can all go together into one big hobby.
- The other thing would be PC Hex Encounters kind of like we did with the Panzer Core 2. The nice thing about that is that it's very easy to play in a live stream format because the rules are all managed for you in the background.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:15:38 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80850 · mention_pk 198279
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Weird alternate Cold War spy story with Lovecraftian underpinnings
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Global conflict with Lovecraftian underpinnings, involving the CIA, Saddam Hussein opening a gate for Yogoth, and Russians releasing Cthulhu.
- Alternate reality Cold War spy story
- Spy story with cosmic horror elements.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Battle Station's Lightseed, that would be great. I could use another pair of eyes on it.
- Don't all volunteer at once, y'all.
- I feel like that that that needs to be a a card that you can get in the uh Empire's End expansion or after the Empire expansion. Politically motivated and grouchy.
- So that's homework for next week. Bring bring those three and and we'll uh we'll discuss.
- I would say my favorite game designer is Ryan Mock basically because he somehow managed to make a really good game lugging that anchor Evan behind him.
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The Discriminating Gamer Top List at 4:48 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80492 · mention_pk 195919
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great game
- Handles recent history well
- Good possibilities for nations to get ahead
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- International influence and prestige
- Fairly recent history
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — We have a lot of like little kind of area control battles around the world, around the periphery of the board, uh that you're trying to score these different regions.
- Card Play — And then you play the cards, but you're competing, of course, you know, for international influence.
- Simultaneous action selection — Players play their cards down simultaneously, but how you orient them kind of matters.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Does the International House of Pancakes answer to the United Nations or is it the other way around?
- This is the great granddaddy of all diplomatic games.
- This Many people have said this is the meanest game ever made. It's certainly up there.
- I've never played a game that forces players to so consistently make the best of bad choices.
- It's the game that keeps on giving.
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