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The Shining

Game ID: GID0347127
Game Info
Year
2020
Players
3-5
Age
17+
Playtime
50 min
Complexity
2.1/5
Collection
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Description

A cooperative and traitor game where players explore the Overlook Hotel as caretakers testing their willpower against evil influences while trapped through winter

Description

A cooperative and traitor game where players explore the Overlook Hotel as caretakers testing their willpower against evil influences while trapped through winter

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video EGT6S5dcNNg Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top List at 6:53 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Inexpensive murder hotel in the mountains.
Cons
  • Terrifying visions begin to craft everyone's mind.
Thematic elements
  • Cooperation, deception, terror
  • Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Cooperative — Players work together to gain enough wall power.
  • Deception — One player may secretly act against the others.
  • Survival — Players attempt to gain enough wall power to withstand the evil influence.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • it's disorientating it's terrifying its disoriented Tate Tate
  • these are our top 10 underdog games this month
  • the higher the underdog score the more we're rooting for this game to succeed and exceed our own expectations
  • what tabletop game night wouldn't be complete well the simulated bureaucratic political are being the lake Roman Republic none
  • if you like me and you want to act like some kind of crazed guard you'll spend the whole time trying to work out how you can make a plant that can grow on the dark smell like lemon meringue and dispense crushed ice
  • civil war episode 1
  • the shining is a suspenseful game of cooperation deception terror and an inexpensive turndown service
  • find me another murder hotel in the mountains for that price it can't be done
  • underdog east doggie yes that that this game is trellis
  • The game also wins the award for being the most deceptively devious game on this list
  • Shakespeare was alive there's no way the man from Stratford could have written them
  • this game is the classic underdog can something really feared classic if it's in the pilot episode
  • who wouldn't want to complete dinosaur corpse in their living room no one that's who
  • who weeps for the giant lizards no one no one weeps for them
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Video CVFgsxVhuk4 Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:15:56
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Christmas movie
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • please explain painting Optical camouflage on spaceships I know rule of cool I don't know it just looked neat I guess that's the same thing
  • all the stls that you buy or whether you buy the stuff through uh only games like if you get them printed like if you don't have a printer yourself they can do print on demand as well with those with those same six figures basically it's a 50/50 split
  • it's literally you take off the little silicone kind of cover that goes over the whole nozzle thing so you don't burn yourself on it I guess you take that off you pop off the plastic thing there's a little clip little metal clip you uncp it and then you pull the nozzle out and the nozzle is magnetized so it doesn't like fall out as soon as you uncp it
  • I saw a thing on Facebook about a machine that you just dump all your old pla into and it'll melt it all down and then create a new pla spool which I'm like well that sounds like an awesome idea
  • I think they're that scared of 3D printing I think they don't want to do it
  • I don't think that's really that's not the point is to to beat Games Workshop
  • you create a game like Vince and I do or like fat dragon games does or like lots of different companies you create a game because you want to do it you're not out there to be like the best you're out there to put out a game that you enjoy and then hopefully people will pick up and enjoy as well
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Video LXnh-ZgpgT4 UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 11:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • was pretty good too
Cons
  • can't have a typo
  • in a game that's like basically an escape room, you have to really double triple check that
Thematic elements
  • The Shining
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • I liked Heat Pedal to the Metal more than I have previously.
  • Texas Showdown was surprisingly fun.
  • Cockroach Poker was of course still awesome.
  • And Hacker Lackin is great.
  • the one that I have played in the past but played again that just reiterated to me like how slick I like just how much I enjoy the design was Crusaders. Thy will be done.
  • It's a super solid game, too.
  • I don't envy publishers right now trying to figure out what the heck to do.
  • My favorite part about 51st state was you you you'd hire you'd hire a leader and your leader would give you bonuses or whatever and do your things. That's not in the new version.
  • I like the original much more than the new one.
  • The guy just felt the need to come back in every three or four minutes and talk about quite literally [ __ ] nothing.
  • Small talk is just my kryptonite.
  • I don't know how to make small talk. I only make big talk.
  • My wife hates bugs. Which is why I'm trying to make the camper nicer.
  • It's just like, Oh, you got your camper nice and like you could charge 50 bucks a night. It's lakefront.
  • I will be the president of the Sparta Conservation Society bookmark one day.
  • My dad might get to prison.
  • I just hope I can make money off of it.
  • Don't knock until you try it, man.
  • It's a good chunk of voting power.
  • My son is 13 and he wears size 13 wide shoes.
  • He's just like, 'Oh, can I do it too, Dad?'
  • I'm going to name it. I'm naming that chunk of road.
  • It's just exciting when your parents be like, 'Oh, which way are you going to go?'
  • It's just like, 'Oh, yeah, we got the robot. The robot broke down.'
  • My daughter still enjoys going out there and summer's starting soon.
  • Yeah, but you could just have the Airbnb and be like, 'All right, I'm going to be here what four weekends out of the summer?'
  • It's just like, 'Oh, yeah, dad might get to prison.'
  • I was like, 'Okay.' Just went back to playing Marvel Rivals.
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