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2023
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Description
A card based dungeon crawl with rogue-like rpg elements for 1+ players. Players pick a character from the melee fighter, tactical scout or magic using sage. Dungeons are randomly created from a map deck so cards are placed to create a sprawling dungeon. Each map card contains a chance of treasure or monsters, while a fast and simple combat system allows for high-threat encounters with a ton of loot to find as rewards. Quests and Adventures give objectives and opportunities to each game, but following these are your choice!
What makes this game stand out is that the Dungeons can be left at any (almost) any time so the character returns to town to sell their treasure and prepare for the next adventure - as long as you have the coins to pay for lodging! A full town phase allows the player to develop a settlement that gives them more opportunities and options in the next dungeon.
Characters develop, gaining skills and new items as they progress up to level 5 and fight the Fire Drake.
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The Dungeon Dive Review at 0:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique town building phase
- Ability to unlock different side quests through the notice board
- Decision decks add story and choice
- Item deck expands as character levels up
- Good selection of loot, including aspirational gear
- Good variety of monsters and skills
- Cheaper entry points with level packs
Cons
- Wish it looked a little nicer, had a more cohesive artistic vision
Thematic elements
- dungeon crawl adventure
Comparison games
- Quest for the Lost Pixel
- Rogue Dungeon
- Doom Pilgrim
- Iron Helm
- Quest for the Lost Pixel
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character progression — You play a character level 1 through 5. You will have different You will roll up on different charts to see what kind of enemies you fight.
- Companions — As you unlock certain buildings, you will also gain access to companions that you can hire. And you can pay them a mercenary fee, and you can take them into the dungeon with you.
- Decision Cards — When you discover one of those, you will have to draw one of these decision cards, and you can draw a decision card from any decision deck you have currently in play.
- Deck Building — as you build those buildings, your deck of side quests will grow.
- Dungeon Crawl — kind of a typical dungeon crawl adventure game
- Enemy Cards — There's also a pretty large stack of enemies. As you start adding some of the expansions in, you will have all kinds of different enemies to go against.
- Enemy Modifiers — There are also these enemy cards that you can attach onto the enemies to add even more variety to their abilities, and uh making them uh more powerful, or more deadly.
- Events — there are events and obstacles and traps and things that get added to the item deck, to the treasure deck as you are going up in levels.
- Item cards — There is this deck of item cards and the deck of item cards is broken up into the five different levels of your character.
- loot — There's also a ton of treasure to get. This is a loot treasure.
- Magic System — there is also a kind of small deck here of two different types of magic so we have sorcery and hex magic.
- questing — the base game is to reach level five and then kill the fire Drake... you can also do just kind of open questing depending on the level you are at.
- Side quests — The notice board unlocks a whole bunch of side quests that you can take and it just gives you a little extra something to do in the dungeon.
- Skills — As your character levels up, they will have access to a pretty large uh stack of skills here.
- Town Building — it does have this town building phase where in between dungeons you are going back to town. You're exiting the dungeon. You're going back to town and you are spending your money to buy new buildings for your town.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I wish it looked a little nicer. I wish it had a little bit of a better kind of just visual design to it, more of a cohesive look, but it does kind of have that kind of DIY quality.
- I love this. I love a good town building phase, especially when you are going into a dungeon and coming out and then, you know, visiting your town, healing up, going to a blacksmith, going shopping, maybe resting at an inn, and being able to build your town and the different things that these buildings unlock.
- It's a little bit more of a risk-reward system, kind of a press your luck, because you never know, something bad might happen as you stumble upon a treasure.
- I really enjoyed this little deck of cards here, and we'll see some other examples of that as we take a look at the other two expansions.
- This expansion really does add a lot.
- I love this. As a matter of fact, if I were to recommend what you would buy, if you just wanted to go all in, I would recommend getting the full base game that has levels one through five.
- It's one of those games where you might find some loot that you can't use yet, but it becomes a piece of aspirational gear that you can work towards and that's always fun.
- Vanaheim is a great B-tier game.
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Crimsonboardgames Discussion at 14:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong Viking theme
- cooperative gameplay with impressive minis
- Spirit Island-like strategic feel
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- survival and monster-battling with a Spirit Island vibe
- Viking-themed cooperative adventure
- team-based, strategy-focused
Comparison games
- Spirit Island
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — players work together to defeat monsters
- cooperative play — players work together to defeat monsters
- Mini-Games — numerous minis for monsters and heroes
- Minis — numerous minis for monsters and heroes
- planning/strategy — team planning to survive and advance
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a flip and write game that is surely taking things to the next level
- there are elements in this that are I've never seen anything like that before in a board game
- this feels like Bloodborne the board game
- I am so excited for this
- this is the only game that doesn't have a solo mode
- I need this game
- I love Calico one of my all-time favorite games
- Tea Witches that's me that's just me I need this game
- affordable price ... around 30 not even EUR somewhere around
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 0:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Large game with a lot of miniatures
- Licensed from a video game IP
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- the most boring unboxing in the world
- I'm actually going to do this. It's the advent calendar. I can I'm going to do it in January
- Fu magnet needs its own bag
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