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Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
1/5
Collection
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Description
River Rats is a cooperative strategic hand-management game set aboard a luxurious futuristic riverboat, where the bionic River Rats, the upper-class guests, force the crew into high-stakes poker games for their amusement.
Players take on the roles of the crew, working together to outplay the Rich Rats by crafting stronger poker hands. Using teamwork, clever hand management, and strategic planning, they must manipulate the game to shift the odds in their favor.
Each of the four crew factions (♣️♦️♥️♠️) has unique abilities, and players must combine their faction powers with their own special actions to outwit the Rich Rats and send them back to their cabins a little poorer than before.
—description from the publisher
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One Stop Co-op Shop Discussion at 7:01 sentiment: negative
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Negative
Pros
- Smallest and least expensive of the games discussed.
- Compact (just a deck of cards).
Cons
- Not as engaging or unique as similar games (Drawing Dead, Ace of Spades, Balatro).
- Too many similar games already in collection.
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Comparison games
- Drawing Dead
- Ace of Spades
- Balatro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — this is another uh poker cooperative or solo game.
- Poker — this is another uh poker cooperative or solo game.
- Solo Play — this is another uh poker cooperative or solo game.
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- this is another uh poker cooperative or solo game.
- it's just not as, for me, engaging or unique as either of those.
- it's the smallest and the least expensive of all of them, I think.
- the more I've played it, the more it's gotten a little bit frustrating.
- it kind of overstayed its welcome and got repetitive.
- Two games that I absolutely love and will keep for a long time, and one that I'm sort of keeping under duress until my 10-year-old will play with me.
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