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Vivarium

Game ID: GID0378951
Game Info
Year
2022
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description

A set-collection card game where players explore a newly discovered Siberian region and use dominoes as coordinates to identify new species and complete contracts.

Description

A set-collection card game where players explore a newly discovered Siberian region and use dominoes as coordinates to identify new species and complete contracts.

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 1
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Video hPWYuwQJX5o Watch It Played Top 10 List at 8:36
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Pros
  • Reminds of Garden Dice.
  • Uses dominoes to navigate its grid of cards.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Set collection
  • Deep subterranean cavern teeming with exotic life, unknown plants and colossal creatures
Comparison games
  • Garden Dice
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • domino placement — Uses dominoes to create coordinates on a grid.
  • Grid Movement — Navigate a grid of cards.
  • Set Collection — Players collect creatures, equipment, and objectives.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • First he puts the channel 47000 in debt and now this.
  • Hi there well if you're watching this message you know it can really only mean one thing I am dead serious about finding a way to earn back the forty seven thousand dollars in debt minus ten dollars for lunch that Watcher played recently incurred somehow very mysteriously it's impossible really to know how it happened and then nobody can really be held accountable regardless my quest towards regaining our Channel's Financial stability begins now.
  • My Hope Is that disneylocano will be a great game with a similar feel to Magic the Gathering that may be a tall order but even if it comes close I mean Marvel snaps show me that there's room in my life for more lifestyle type games and the game with potentially a lower barrier to entry something I can certainly get on board with.
  • They said that I was a fool to search for it they said it was impossible but after exploring far and wide I have just discovered the long hidden land free of any human presence filled with Priceless discoveries never encountered before.
  • It made me realize that sometimes you have to sacrifice something you love in order to save it and that's why as my final Act while still in charge I saved watch it played by sacrificing it and selling it to another company.
  • Say hello to watch it played new parent company party lemmings media Holdings Incorporated.
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Video 6rplNcJCvzo Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 58:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Straightforward and simple game
  • Quick filler game, plays in 25 minutes
  • No reading required, good for families
  • Clever use of dominoes for drafting
  • Gems allow for manipulation of drafting choices
Cons
  • Never felt significant conflict or tension in drafting
  • Hate drafting is difficult and not really feasible
Thematic elements
  • Set collection, animal habitats
Comparison games
  • Valbara
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Majority/Influence — Minor scoring opportunities are available through priority events at the end of each round.
  • domino drafting — Players use dominoes to determine the row and column from which to draft a card.
  • Resource Management — Gems are used to adjust the row or column values of dominoes for drafting.
  • Set Collection — Players collect creature, equipment, and contract cards to score victory points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • We don't Need Another Hero my name is Marty
  • I can't believe how fast the other 75 went I was really surprised
  • we are such Geeks it is so sad
  • The question is whether or not there's hate drafting going on here either because you really don't have the time to do that
  • I will say that's one thing about an app Marty that it can hurt you because you don't understand the nuances of a game
  • The beauty of the app is it just basically I played it up Oh I thought I would get more victory points than that nope oh well who cares and I would move on
  • I think I would put this on the table and this is blasphemy I know it is more than Twilight Struggle if I owned a copy
  • It's that you lose you lose whoever forces the the Defcon want to occur
  • well I ran out of this space on my stupid PlayStation so I gotta go get one of those
  • I just know this after this they better get started working on the Elder Scrolls because that's what I want
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Video RAKRRy3-GMQ Grant Lyon Top 10 List at 12:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • love the art
  • interesting drafting mechanism using dominoes
  • chunky domino components
  • feels bigger than it is
  • restriction from trading dominoes creates fun challenges
Cons
  • biggest small box game on the list
Thematic elements
  • dominoes/set collection
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Drafting — you are drafting cards and getting points for different set collection
  • domino drafting — every player has a couple of dominoes and all of the cards are put on the on a board in um in like grid form right there's a certain number of rows and columns and so when you use a uh when you use dominoes you are basically putting out two dominoes and making a grid point I'm putting out a three and a one and so I am drafting the card in the three and one spot and that's how I'm getting the cards
  • Resource Management — every round you have to trade one domino in and get a new Domino and so it it creates a restriction on the game but in a fun way
  • Set Collection — you are drafting cards and getting points for different set collection
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • This is the closest to a card game on this list
  • There are these really cool little magazine tiles and the magazine tiles are getting you points at the end of the game in different ways
  • I think that's just a really cool way to do an auction to have to arrange your hand in a specific way before we even start drafting at all before we start bidding at all
  • This was also my top two-player Only Game of the Year
  • Every card that can be purchased by one side or the other can also be destroyed by the opposing side before that person can buy them and add them to their deck
  • I constantly have to agonize over whether I want to spend my resources to hurt you or to buy a card that helps me
  • There is a board a little board element to this game where there is a force and the force is sort of going back and forth between either side
  • I had a bet with my brother that I could hit 10,000 subscribers by the end of the year and it looks like I am going to lose that bet
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Video OKBMchaors8 UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 32:43 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
  • Regretted backing the game
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • It's with Charize Throne. Like there's an Old Guard 2 and everybody's like, "Oh my god, there's an Old Guard, too. How amazing."
  • Charliss Therone as an immortal like a from ancient history, like ancient times. like she's been alive for thousands of years.
  • She's badass.
  • The whole team of immortals is badass.
  • Oh, I started watching Squid Game season two because I never and I saw Squid Game season 3 is out and I'm like, guess I better watch season two.
  • Do any of you guys watch Yellow Jackets?
  • Watch it. Lord of the Flies and um yeah, like a Lord of the Flies kind of thing.
  • Kabuki Kid says yellow jacket is good.
  • I know I'll end up buying like Shackleton base, even though I don't need it and I won't play it, but I'll be like, "Oh, I should probably get this because it's supposed to be really good."
  • I remember going to that movie with my buddy Scott and I remember and I was like because he said I heard somebody say it was really good and I was like well we should go check it out
  • and I remember we went to it thinking you know this is before you could look [ __ ] up and like see everything and know everything, right? And so nothing about it. We went we went we went to it
  • and I remember I mean we couldn't breathe. We were laughing so hard
  • It's absolutely insane.
  • remember the little like um like they would get done with a a scene and then they would have that like music cutaway of everybody dancing.
  • The second and third one sucked.
  • I mean um the first one though. I mean uh what was it was magical
  • you shot me. You shot me right in the arm.
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