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Rulebenders

Game ID: GID0272474
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2021
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Description

Embark on a fascinating adventure through multiple themes like pirates, sci-fi, fantasy, prehistoric, zombies and more in Rulebenders, a time-traveling game that twists the rules of the game (literally and figuratively) and will create a unique game experience every time you play!

In the game, players choose a number of themes out of the available six, changing the character of each round as the game progresses. Players fight for control over the different rules aspects of the game, bending the rules of the game to their advantage. You have to use your wits in this unique game where the rules change as you play.

As the game progresses, players collect tokens which they then convert to chips to win the game.

—description from the publisher

Description

Embark on a fascinating adventure through multiple themes like pirates, sci-fi, fantasy, prehistoric, zombies and more in Rulebenders, a time-traveling game that twists the rules of the game (literally and figuratively) and will create a unique game experience every time you play!

In the game, players choose a number of themes out of the available six, changing the character of each round as the game progresses. Players fight for control over the different rules aspects of the game, bending the rules of the game to their advantage. You have to use your wits in this unique game where the rules change as you play.

As the game progresses, players collect tokens which they then convert to chips to win the game.

—description from the publisher

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 1
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Video VYx-d4PjCl4 Getting Games Discussion at 44:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • multithemed rule-bending
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Video nMihwPNR2EI The Dice Tower Top List at 18:45 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • Idea of malleable rules
  • Area control game
  • Mashing together themes
Cons
  • When you do that it's awful
  • Turns out to be a terrible experience
  • A card play can negate an hour of work
  • Clunky mechanics
Thematic elements
  • Malleable rules
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — The game involves area control with cubes on a map.
  • Thematic mashup — Different themes are mashed together each game.
  • Variable rules — The game has dials that change rules like card draw and cost.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • The game mostly speaks for itself. We've all experienced it. We all want to forget about it. Sorry I brought it up here.
  • I think I think we live in a more innocent time and I miss that.
  • This was a huge, huge disappointment for me because I wanted to like it so much.
  • Seal is one of the biggest hype to reality moments that I've ever had. Just that that gut check of like, yeah, you still live in a in a messed up earth. You lost faith in humanity.
  • There's so many mistakes and so many disappointments and we still tried to play through so much.
  • my number one is what my clear number one because it was the worst execution possible of any game.
  • And so on top of the fact that it didn't work, which is a huge problem, but if you didn't enjoy assembling them and if you assemble them just like a teeny bit off, not only would the marble like roll down and get stuck, but it would roll off the side of the first piece and just fall on the floor.
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