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Time Pirates

Game ID: GID0357661
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Year
2000
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Description

Players are skipping through time to steal various artifacts from ancient civilizations. Each of the time periods have only two pathways, so travel is somewhat limited. When in an era, you can refill the tiles, collect tiles, or move on. However, the Time Police are also patrolling the time periods. If the Time Police catch you, they'll steal all the tiles of your largest collection of artifacts! After three rounds of collection, the player with the best collection wins.

Description

Players are skipping through time to steal various artifacts from ancient civilizations. Each of the time periods have only two pathways, so travel is somewhat limited. When in an era, you can refill the tiles, collect tiles, or move on. However, the Time Police are also patrolling the time periods. If the Time Police catch you, they'll steal all the tiles of your largest collection of artifacts! After three rounds of collection, the player with the best collection wins.

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Total mentions: 2
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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video yfN193aKl0M Meeple University Top 10 List at 15:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Brain-burning puzzle
  • Satisfying upgrades and progression
  • Legacy/campaign element
  • Deck building component
  • Cooperative play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Puzzle, dungeon crawl
Comparison games
  • Chips Challenge
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • cooperative play — And we both play this cooperatively together.
  • Deck Building — Plus, you have deck building element element as well.
  • Puzzle solving — This is a puzzle game where you are trying to exit a certain area and reach an area.
  • Resource Management — You need to manage your resources and going to unlock scenario in a the best way and the right way.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • As usual, we're going to share you games that we played in June 2025, the first time we played. So, not necessarily new games.
  • It's all our opinion.
  • All the new to us games for June.
  • So, we are going to alternatively share from the number five to number one.
  • Very aggressive, very hatedraft induced, but it's really great game.
  • This is a really clever market uh economic type of game.
  • It's really satisfying when you upgrade things when you try to all right what do we do first?
  • This is the new pandemic system game set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
  • Pleasantly surprising was how was the differences between this and Pandemic and how it felt like a very different game to Pandemic.
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Video xWGGw_A1bh4 The Dice Tower Top List at 1:45 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Time travel in the sense of moving to different time periods on the board.
  • Would love to see a remake
Cons
  • Not particularly loved
  • Fairly old game
  • Basic set collection game
Thematic elements
  • Pirates collecting artifacts across time
  • Different time periods on a board
Comparison games
  • Time Bandits
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Set Collection — Players collect artifacts by moving between different time periods on the board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Time travel is pretty much impossible to do properly.
  • You just have to kind of ignore those flaws and just go with it.
  • And the same thing is with board game. How do you make a time travel board game?
  • Time travel is just debt time travel.
  • It's really interesting how much time you're spending.
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