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The Crew: Family Adventure

Game ID: GID0325592
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Year
2024
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Description

The Crew: Family Adventure crossed the gameplay of The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine with the setting of The Swiss Family Robinson. Players find themselves stranded on a deserted island and have to find their way around together. Eating, sleeping, making decisions — how will the adventure end?

Description

The Crew: Family Adventure crossed the gameplay of The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine with the setting of The Swiss Family Robinson. Players find themselves stranded on a deserted island and have to find their way around together. Eating, sleeping, making decisions — how will the adventure end?

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Total mentions: 3
This page: 3
Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 1
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Video H6LmbyTlrok Grant Lyon Top 10 List at 20:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • family-friendly and accessible version of a popular system
  • scales from 3 to 5 players with clear goals
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • cooperative survival on a stranded island
  • island survival, family-friendly adaptation of The Crew
  • scenario-based with escalating objectives
Comparison games
  • The Crew
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • cooperative trick-taking-lite system sans traditional trick-taking — Family-friendly version of The Crew with simplified objectives.
  • Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game — Players follow escalating mission goals laid out by the grid of cards.
  • scenario-based objectives — Players follow escalating mission goals laid out by the grid of cards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • I am an optimistic person. So I think we will figure this out.
  • Happy gaming out there. Grant with GrantsGameres.
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Video ArmxGVI3psg The Dice Tower Analysis at 3:45 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Interesting ideas
  • A lot of things I liked
Cons
  • Not great
  • Just misses the mark
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • The Crew
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Cooperative — A cooperative game.
  • Trick-Taking — Implied by comparison to 'The Crew'.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • I tell you what I think about the games now if I think about them at all.
  • It is that fantastic of a game, No Thanks.
  • There are some really terrible Princess Bride games out there.
  • This is one of the bad ones.
  • It's too little too late, honestly, this this thing.
  • Mean mean mean mean little game.
  • Very mechanical game. Very lack of theme almost as you put these tiles in your pot. But it works.
  • Mama Mia is one of those games that I bring out at conventions and play with people, little memory game which I like a lot.
  • It's an amazing game.
  • What a terrible roll and write style game.
  • It's just awful.
  • It's not great either. Just misses the mark.
  • It's all about logistics.
  • Really impressed with this one. Bright, cheerful, fun, fast.
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Video jGH1E3M9Af0 BoardGameCo Top 15 List at 2:32 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • family-friendly entry point
  • cooperative vibe that can work for kids
Cons
  • not really like The Crew at all
  • too complicated for target audience of Flip 7/Uno fans
  • too uninteresting for seasoned players
Thematic elements
  • Cooperation, simplification, target-audience fit
  • Family-friendly adaptation of a cooperative trick-taking framework
  • light, accessible
Comparison games
  • The Crew
  • The Gang
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Cooperative Game — Players work together to achieve objectives via card-driven actions.
  • cooperative gameplay — Players work together to achieve objectives via card-driven actions.
  • target-audience alignment — Designed to fit a less complex audience than traditional Crew titles.
  • Trick-Taking — Family edition adapts the trick-taking core to a simpler, more approachable form.
  • trick-taking influence — Family edition adapts the trick-taking core to a simpler, more approachable form.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • I don't love the game, but it is it's one of those things where if the game looked different, had a different theme, (or) presentation, it may well have made it into my collection.
  • It looks flat. It looks almost like bad clip art.
  • It's basically a video game adaptation that should have been adapted and wasn't.
  • I bounced hard off Anachrony.
  • I would rather just play Small World.
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