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Year
2019
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
60 min
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Description
The journey out west was daunting and fraught with peril, but you made it! And now you've been granted land to take responsibility for new settlers.
In Old West Empresario, you take on the role of an empresario, building a prosperous town in newly settled western territories. Attract settlers through clever dice drafting and tile placement. Build the most valuable town with the most population to become the state capital!
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Getting Games Discussion at 12:56 sentiment: positive
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positive
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- this is puffin she's a six-month-old Minnie burna doodle and she is just the best
- it's just been wonderful having her around
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Getting Games Discussion at 9:46 sentiment: neutral
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- I finally decided that it's something that I should try to see how much money I'll actually make
- it's something I've been putting off for years like literally since I very first started this channel
- 80% is still well and good enough for me to go ahead with this
- sound is a bit magical in my old career that I've been doing for like 12 years
- I am planning on leaving them on as they are right now for the foreseeable future
- I don't want to flood people's timelines with all these little five to ten minute videos
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Getting Games Discussion at 22:40 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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- the algorithm for youtube is a black box
- you miss all the shots you don't take
- this is my full-time job
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Meeple University Review
video_pk 70177 · mention_pk 167079
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Quotes (from this video)
- build a prosperous town in the Old West
- many ways to score points
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The Broken Meeple Top List at 19:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Solid game with good mechanics
- Underrated title
- Good follow-up to Pioneer Days
- Relatively simple gameplay
- Hope to climb back onto top 100
Cons
- Hard to teach due to heavy iconography
- Difficult to get to table
- Complex building interactions
- Fiddly scoring
- Not as polished as Pioneer Days
Thematic elements
- Western town building
- Old West
Comparison games
- Pioneer Days
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Building activation — Buildings activate based on rolled dice values
- Dice Drafting — Draft dice from a board
- Iconography-heavy — Many building types with different abilities
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's just like falling off it's just literally there are 100 better games in it
- Small Islands uh this is the one that i've been saying is a replacement for carcassonne
- way too complicated for its own good
- it is one of the most beautiful games in existence
- i still think five tribes is better than yamatai
- nations is still my preference to fruity ages in terms of playing a physical game
- really good negotiation game
- great teamwork cooperative very cool
- this is a really good solo
- the deductions are really hard it's a really tough one to do
- it's oh it's a mind bender gorgeous looking
- reef is still a really cool game
- azul is only that good at two player
- near and far still really good
- there's no reason to play that one if you have near and far
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Getting Games Discussion at 21:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Tightly tuned action-multipliers that reward early and strategic placement
- Fast-paced for a Euro with slot-based builds and high player interaction
- Good comparison to Kali Mala with a different thematic focus
Cons
- Can feel mechanically dense for newer players
- Some players may prefer more variance or larger engine depth
Thematic elements
- dice drafting and building a western town
- Wild West city-building
- engine-building with tile-drafting and activation chains
Comparison games
- Pioneer Days
- Kali mala
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice drafting and activation — draw dice from the middle and activate buildings that match the die values
- resource balancing and endgame scoring — manage tools, olive oil, stone, and other resources, and deploy them to maximize endgame points
- tile-based city building — place square tiles to expand your town, with concrete pathways to build in specific zones
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Quotes (from this video)
- income is super important this is almost more of an engine building game than it is really a worker placement game
- this is a fully cooperative game and everybody is simultaneously trying to figure out all of their words
- this game hums along at a great pace
- the events being integrated into the overall action row was such a cool idea
- it's a gateway level to have a game like Nations
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