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Each turn in Vikings Gone Wild — a deck-building, resource management game based on the online real-time strategy game — players can either buy permanent buildings sitting in front of them (resource factories, resources containers, etc) or buy units, towers and special cards that improve their deck and offense/defense capacity.
The only way to win is by successfully attacking each other, and each attack involves interesting bluffing mechanisms in which the attacker doesn't know the defense capacity of their opponent...
Year Published
2017
Transcript Analysis
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Unknown Channel general_discussion at 14:16 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Expansions exist to support team or cooperative play
- Bluffing and defensive play offer some interaction
Cons
- Themes feel loose and not particularly thematic
- Not as engaging as other deck-builders like Dominion or Clank
Thematic elements
- Vikings, building, attacking
- Cartoonish Viking world
- light, humorous
Comparison games
- Dominion
- Clank
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- attack/defense system — attack other players' buildings and defend with defense cards
- deck-building — buy cards to build your deck
- permanent buildings — buildings become permanent fixtures providing ongoing benefits
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love Crosstalk actual love because it's one of my favorite new party games.
- it's simply that you're there you're as a guesser you are completely lost
- Azul is again coming from Plan B games and this is an abstract game albeit a very pretty one
- I appreciate that and then the rest of the game is about collecting symbols
- Vikings Gone Wild is a deck building game that I've had a lot of good things about
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actual lol general_discussion at 1:07:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- cute/art-drenched presentation
- accessible deck-building vibe
Cons
- theme can be light for hardcore euros
- certain strategies may dominate
Thematic elements
- viking raiders and settlements
- vikings clan management
- light, cartoonish
Comparison games
- Lords of Waterdeep
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area control / attack — compete over territories and resources, with light combat-like scoring
- deck-building — deck-based engine building to recruit and upgrade your Viking clan
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we're doing a fundraiser to raise money for Black Lives Matter
- we support the protesters that are fighting for racial equality and justice
- we've put together this fundraiser so tonight all the donations will go to Black Lives Matter
- we'd appreciate you to donate
- look out Eric Lang on Twitter; he talks about his experiences suffering racism
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