Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
50 min
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Description
A cooperative game where players defend a wizardry college built in a cursed swamp by collecting soul pieces and completing rituals to defeat an Evil Sorcerer.
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The Dice Tower Other at 6:59 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Man, Phil Walker-Harding, I love so many of his games, but not this one.
- it's just a muddled mess, unfortunately.
Thematic elements
- Collecting items and completing missions
- Magic in a castle
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to complete missions.
- Mission Completion — Players turn in items to complete missions.
- Set Collection — Players collect items.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is sort of an a grown-up version of a popular kids racing game called Monza.
- It's so convoluted for so little of a game.
- Man, I love the crews.
- This is a party game in which you replace every letter in a word with a consonant.
- I hate this game.
- If it wasn't for the crazy randomness, I think I'd enjoy it more.
- This is not one of them.
- It's just kind of a movement efficiency puzzle that I think a lot of people will enjoy.
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The Dice Tower Review at 0:07 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Reasonably difficult cooperative game, not too hard, not too easy.
Cons
- Feels generic
- A little boring
- Feels slow
- Feels wooden
- Don't like the look of it
- Unengaging
Thematic elements
- Play on Harry Potter, completing rituals to defeat an evil sorcerer
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — and then you have four actions which apparently is a staple for cooperative games.
- character abilities — Channeling will level you up making your special ability each character has a special ability better.
- cooperative play — It's a cooperative game where you need to complete rituals to defeat an evil sorcerer.
- Deck building (implied) — drawing the top card of a deck each round which will move this evil sorcerer around the board.
- event cards — And then you have some sort of event that you have
- Item Usage — You can move, explore, pick up, drop, use items, channel, complete rituals. Um so using items lets you find these items that you pick up that will you move some extra spaces.
- minion management — Also there's minions you don't want too many minions in the board or you'll lose the game.
- Ritual completion — You can move, explore, pick up, drop, use items, channel, complete rituals.
- Tile exploration — In this game you're going to be moving around exploring flipping over tiles
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is clearly a play on Harry Potter where they just changed up the main characters of it.
- Can we do something that's not Harry Potter at this point or a very clear copy of it?
- And then you have four actions which apparently is a staple for cooperative games.
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The Dice Tower Review at 6:37 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Cooperative gameplay.
- Can be a reasonably difficult cooperative game.
Cons
- Feels generic and too similar to Harry Potter.
- Is a little boring and feels slow.
- Feels very deterministic.
- The look of the game is 'meh' and not exciting.
- Players might not care about the objective.
Thematic elements
- Cooperative game to defeat an evil sorcerer
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players have four actions per turn: move, explore, pick up, drop, use items, channel, complete rituals.
- character abilities — Each character has a special ability that can be improved by 'channeling'.
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve a common goal.
- minion management — Players must manage minions on the board to avoid losing.
- Modular Board — Involves moving around and exploring by flipping over tiles.
- Threat Movement — A deck of cards dictates the movement of an 'evil sorcerer' around the board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Six games I played so you don't have to.
- This is a historical card game from Steve Easton World Within Games, but I was surprised to find out that this was supposed to be delivered from Kickstarter in October of 2015.
- The iconography is not particularly good. Attacking is unfun and boring.
- It's a forgettable product in many ways. It's a five a four out of 10 for me, actually.
- But the game is wacky without being wacky.
- First of all, it feels generic. Yeah, it's Harry Potter, we get it.
- But the theme for me actively is annoying because it looks so cool it doesn't really come through.
- So, it's has a bunch of cool ideas in it, but it's so forgetful.
- But it is a slow tower defense game. It's just really slow, very thoughtful, and so much effort going in.
- It's really quite boring, unfortunately.
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