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Find the lost runes and save the planet Asteros!
A long, long time ago, the ancient King of Asteros confined the brutal monsters in the Rune Gate and sealed it with four divine runes. But five days ago, a mysterious evil power opened the gate and changed the code. Asteros is haunted by fear and disasters again! The wise leader ORAKL asked the Council of United Planets and they sent four famous agents: EKHO, HAL, ELLI and NOVA. ORAKL the wise and the four brave agents begin to fight against the evil powers to save Asteros. They must find the Code to reset the Gate and confine the monsters again. People call them "Rising 5", hoping they will be able to restore peace on the planet.
Rising 5: Runes of Asteros is a co-operative deduction and adventure game with a mobile phone application or a game master. Players must find the answer Code with the four Runes in the right arrangement before the evil power devours the planet. Players can explore the planet to collect energy or clues and to fight against evil monsters. When players try to unlock the code, the App or the game master will give signs that lead to right code.
If players successfully find the code, they win; if the Darkness Level reaches the Red Moon because of the evil monsters or if the Character card deck is exhausted, the players lose the game.
- Liked the deduction aspect, reminiscent of Mastermind.
- The ability for all players to contribute actions via their cards is a positive aspect.
- The app integration works well for providing clues.
- The game offers a cooperative challenge.
- The speaker initially had questions about how the app scanned images.
- The game can be lost if the eclipse occurs, which is triggered by certain card draws.
- Players must find the answer code with four runes in the right arrangement before an evil power devours the planet.
- Cooperative deduction game with a mobile app.
- Pandemic
- Mastermind
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — Players play cards to perform actions, with the number of cards in hand influencing capabilities.
- app-assisted — A mobile application is used to provide clues and feedback on deductions.
- cooperative play — All players work together to achieve the game's objective.
- Deduction — Players must deduce the correct arrangement and colors of runes.
- Push Your Luck — Players decide how many cards to draw, balancing the need for more options against the risk of drawing eclipse cards.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- These crackers spend most of their episodes talking about everything but board games
- The thing that really sold us both on this game it's the resource management
- Oh crap I sat there for an hour getting through the rules
- This is very much a tactical game Tony which I found out and I stick it tactical games it's about positioning your squads and in in good places to defend and in case some enemy moves into a crystal zone then you can move into a crystal zone and actually do battle against each other
- The really neat mechanic that I liked was the three different colors of the workers you had the black the gray and the white and you don't get those gray and white until you go raiding later in the game
- I highly recommend the expansion Hall of Heroes because typically when you draw cards in the base game it's a blind draw you don't know what you're gonna get with the expansion you have three of them out that you can pick from
- The app works well I was surprised how well the app works because there's also a time when you can just do a check you could say hey is this color part of the the pattern and you type in it tells you whether it is or not
- I really enjoyed this Marty I was really surprised at just the fiddle enos of playing with the coins and moving them in and out
- I love it's a it's a tactical board game with cards and minis I get to paint my minis
References (from this video)
- fantastic artwork
- less thrilled about this one
- runes
- Asteros
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — a cooperative game.
- Mastermind-like — This is like playing Mastermind, but in a group setting.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The Morrigan Game Factory though, what a great escape room game. It might it's it's definitely in my top escape room games.
- Noobs in Space is one of my favorite little games that's so unique and interesting. You have a deck of cards, you deal them out to everybody. Everybody has cards in their hand, and then you just solve those cards by saying things out loud, working together to play cards, and hopefully you solve it. It communication is the key. You can say anything you want, uh but you just can't show cards. And it's hilarious and fun. Very, very enjoyable.
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