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Year
2025
Players
2-4
Playtime
60 min
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Description
A competitive card-driven MOBA board game and spiritual successor to Skytear where teams of champions fight to destroy the enemy nexus
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Board Game Critique Top List at 10:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Feels like a MOBA on the table
- Captures MOBA feeling without being just a card game
- Shared battlefield tension
- Constantly reading the other person's plans
- Tempo and reactive board
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena)
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Lane pushing — Pushing lanes with minions.
- map control — Working to destroy the defensive towers.
- Objective-based — Contest an objective.
- Simultaneous action selection — A lot of the action selection happens simultaneously.
- tower defense — Taking towers.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Not the kind where you're both quietly doing your own little puzzle next to each other.
- Just something with real interaction.
- I'm just saying these are the ones that currently work the best for me.
- None of the main list let you just do your own thing in the corner while the other person does theirs.
- Real decisions that matter.
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Board Games UnLocked Review at 0:16 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Simple to learn and teach
- Lots of heroes out of the box
- Casual nature compared to other MOBA games
- Variety of items available for purchase
- Can be managed with four heroes without being overwhelming
- Fast playtime suitable for a game day
- Good component quality and storage
- Launched and delivered in the same year
Cons
- Heroes have simple abilities
- Lack of strategic depth
- Initiative can feel too dominant
- Poorly written rulebooks with unanswered questions
- Game length cannot be adjusted
- Items are less impactful due to short game length
- The 'Outsider' mechanic feels tacked on and unnecessary
- Hero respawn system is too punishing and long
- High price point for the perceived value
- Does not encourage repeat play
- Hero deaths feel too crippling
- The game can feel like going through the motions with little impact from choices
Thematic elements
- MOBA style board game
Comparison games
- Guards of Atlantis
- Mech versus Minion
- BattleCon
- Exceed
- Tainted Grail
- Kingdom Sword
- League of Legends
- Skye Horde
- Overwatch
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players have a deck of cards that is a combination of all their heroes, and initiative and actions are determined by cards played from hand.
- Deck Building — Players build a deck of cards related to their heroes.
- hero abilities — Heroes have abilities, some of which are basic, and can level up.
- Item purchasing — Players collect money by killing minions and use it to purchase items that assist their character build.
- Leveling up — Characters can level up, with one specific character's level-up changing their damage output.
- Minion control — Players manage minions that push lanes and attack the enemy nexus.
- MOBA style — The game is a MOBA style board game inspired by mobile video games.
- Nexus attack — The ultimate goal is to attack and destroy the enemy nexus.
- Team play variants — The game can be played as 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3, where players split heroes amongst teammates.
- ultimate abilities — Each hero has an ultimate ability that starts in the discard pile and is only accessible when the deck reshuffles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I just think it's I don't think it's very good.
- If I was to be like if someone came to me and they were like, 'Hey, I have these two games. I love MOBAs. I'm I'm so sweaty and I'm a piece of [expletive] and I play League of Legends.' I'd be like, 'You didn't have to say that. I knew you were a piece of [expletive] because you played League of Legends.'
- This game was not cheap. This game was like I think if my pledge was like 300 bucks.
- I think it's average. I think it has some good qualities. Um, but most of the things that I find negatives about it just don't work for me.
- For me a fine game is not worth the price.
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Tantrum House Analysis at 1:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Player interest in seeing how mobile game gameplay is implemented on tabletop.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Competitive card driven game inspired by mobile video games
Comparison games
- League of Legends
- DOTA
- Sky tier
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Driven — Onward is the spiritual successor to Sky tier the competitive card driven game inspired by mobile video games such as League of Legends or DOTA.
- MOBA — in this game players split into two teams teams with each player controlling two or more Champions and seeking to cross the map through Lanes in order to get to the other person's Nexus and take it down
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Quotes (from this video)
- Aloha and welcome to tangal Studio 808
- I'm psychic Larry and this is the block
- video for the second half of March
- this video is sponsored in part by Ivy Studios their new game scales of Fate is coming to Kickstarter on March 18th
- We will also be having a live playthrough of scales of Fate on our channel on Thursday March 20th
- coming to backer kit on March 18th is red ties a tale of new caribia by Tortuga games and designed by Nick rer and John Micah Tyson
- coming to gamefound on March 18th is onward by Sky tiered games and designed by gioma and Ricardo ner
- Onward is the spiritual successor to Sky tier the competitive card driven game inspired by mobile video games such as League of Legends or DOTA
- coming to Kickstarter on March 18th is Misfit Heroes by AEG and designed by Phil Walker Harding
- also coming to Kickstarter on March 18th it scales of Fate by our sponsor ivy Studios and designed by Max Anderson Zack Dixon and Austin Harrison
- coming to Kickstarter on March 19th is star Clash by most high design and designed by Ryan K Williams
- coming to game found on March 25th is Chronicles of palon by trous games and designed by here we go Bank ragn Mom sorry uh to the designer
- also coming to game found on March 25th is gii Joe operation Cobra by OC games
- and finally coming to game found on March 25th is six sojourns by Red Raven games and designed by Ryan Lockett
- Six soldiers is a reimagining of Ryan lockett's third published design 8 Minute Empire
- those are some of the games coming to crowdfunding this second half of March thanks again to our sponsor IV Studios be sure to check out their game scales of Fate coming to Kickstarter on March 18th
- let me know in the comments which games you are excited about and if I've missed any of your favorite games coming to crowdfunding this end of March and until next time
- aloha
- e for
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 12:25 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- High component quality (miniatures)
Cons
- Too expensive
- Overproduced
- Too random
- Confusing mechanics
- Rulebook not amazing
- Unclear purpose of large miniatures
Thematic elements
- MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) style
Comparison games
- Exceed
- Battle Con
- Hordes
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Players use a deck of character cards to activate abilities and influence the game.
- Hero/Minion Play — Heroes pave the way for minions to win the game, suggesting a focus on supporting units.
- Miniature Combat — Involves miniatures and combat, likely based on MOBA mechanics.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is such a muddy looking game that it almost feels like you're you're discombobulated off off, you know, as soon as you're starting.
- The rule book was horrible
- This game feels like it was written by a 13-year-old who just learned how to cuss.
- It's a mediocre deck builder. It's amplified by being a double mediocre deck builder.
- The actual game behind this one is so exhausting to play through.
- This game feels like it was designed by AI.
- This game is so atrociously designed in both component quality, which is ass
- Their rule book does not have page numbers.
- The Witcher Path of Destiny has no redeeming qualities to me.
- this is like a $40 game all day that you made $200 because you've got playmats and plastic everywhere and all this stuff.
- This is a plastered on piece of cardboard that you're like this is just stuff. There's no nothing behind it.
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Board Games UnLocked Top List at 37:02 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Quicker than Guards of Atlantis
- Easier to teach
- Not as 'sweaty'
Cons
- Mediocre writing
- Dice system was awful
- Character upgrade system was not interesting
- Heroes felt not impactful
- Lack of synergy
- Heroes can only be activated once per round
- Getting destroyed means being out for most of the game
- Guardian mechanic felt like an unnecessary addition to speed up the game
- Felt the game was over halfway through
- Little ability to course-correct
- Generic items
- Monsters were all the same
- Too expensive
- Got rid of the game
Thematic elements
- MOBA-style combat
Comparison games
- Destiny's
- Cloudspire
- Guards of Atlantis 2
- BattleCon
- Exceed
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Involves lanes, minions advancing, and attacking a nexus.
- Deck Building — The game involves drawing into a character to use their abilities.
- Moba Elements — Features heroes with unique abilities, lanes, minions, and objectives similar to multiplayer online battle arenas.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This does not deserve to be at a nine. Honestly, this is people who definitely have buyer remorse.
- I hate communities. Like, I don't want to interact with them at all because they're just they're almost always cancer in some way.
- So yeah, like this one was so disappointing because I love love on Trespass Odyssey and I'm like, 'Holy [ __ ] a dark gothic fantasy version of that. That's going to be amazing.' And I'm like, 'Wow, I don't want to play this right now.'
- Again, that [ __ ] campaign thing where you get deeper and deeper into when you play it consistently, it it they it needs to be a banger almost every time.
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BoardGameCo News And Weekend Review at 14:42 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It sucks.
- Not sustainable.
- Longer conversation, effectively big box productions are more viable via crowdfunding than they are via traditional retail models.
- I like the Unstoppable system.
- I hope you have a better week than I'm going to have.
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