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Players need to choose their passengers and try them to have a pleasant trip in this new social network… Or maybe, they will do anything to make this trip a nightmarish experience.
Each turn begins with an event (station card, then each player may perform 3 actions in the order they prefer. The actions are the following:
A) Get in: Place a passenger from your hand on an empty seat in the train. Then, place on them one of your meeples and the number of likes according to the seat. Also, place dislikes on the adjacent passengers according to the played passenger.
B) Act: Activate the ability of one of your passengers.
C) Draw: Draw 2 cards from the Passenger deck.
When a passenger has 5 cubes, the player who controls them scores immediately: Return to the supply all the dislikes and the same number of likes. Leave the rest in your supply.
The game ends when the last card of the Event deck is drawn and the player with the most likes is the winner.
—description from the publisher
- Fresh take on social dynamics and interaction
- engages players through negotiation and strategy
- Theme could be opaque to new players
- Influence and passenger empowerment on a city-wide train
- Social network-themed area control with a locomotive motif
- Metaphorical ride analogous to real social networks
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action_selection — Three actions per turn chosen in any order
- Area Control — Place passengers to gain control of seats and routes
- area_control — Place passengers to gain control of seats and routes
- player_interaction — Like/loyalty dynamics determine the winner
- Positive Player Interaction — Like/loyalty dynamics determine the winner
- Set Collection — Draw two passenger cards to improve options
- set_collection — Draw two passenger cards to improve options
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's like the matrix the only way to understand it is to experience it for yourself
- what does that mean
- stay alive period get harder
- the social train is a new type of social network, and it's also an actual locomotive
- dragons who live inside of an active volcano what do they eat unsuspecting samurai