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Year
2021
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Description
A Colourful game collaboration between Jason Anarchy Games and Shen Comix.
Your Friend is Sad is a hand management and card matching game where you are trying to cheer up a sad friend.
Draw cards from the Brain Deck to collect and match "Feelings" and "Brain Goops" to the icons on any "Active Fun Cards" currently on the board for "Cheer Points"
At the end of your turn can also trade in an unwanted Feelings cards to draw a Life Card from the Life Deck, which may or may not be beneficial.
First to get 11 Cheer Up Points has succesfully cheered up their friend and gets to flip the sad token to happy and is the winner.
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Pros
- Light card drafting and pattern matching offers accessible play
- Described as a light, approachable game suitable for many players
- Artistic presentation via Shen Comics and guest artists adds visual appeal
- Flavor text and whimsical cheer-up scenarios add narrative flavor
- Strong thematic tie to cheering up and dealing with anxiety/depression
- Explicitly marketed as an all-star experience for webcomic fans
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Thematic elements
- Cheering up a friend and dealing with anxiety/depression
- Shen Comics world
- Flavor text on cards and whimsical scenarios
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — The game is described as a light card drafting and pattern matching game, where players draft cards to form cheer-up combinations.
- deck interaction — On turns, players burn and replace repressed memories, then draw from the brain deck or swap with the repressed memories; life cards may be drawn under certain actions.
- Deck Manipulation — On turns, players burn and replace repressed memories, then draw from the brain deck or swap with the repressed memories; life cards may be drawn under certain actions.
- Hand Management — There is a hand limit of 10 brains; players must discard or manage cards to stay under the limit.
- pattern matching — Players match brain cards to cheer-up cards to discard brains and gain cheer-up points.
- scoring and end condition — First to 13 cheer up points or to collect three cheer-up cards of the same type wins the game.
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- your friend is sad is the latest small box game from jason anarchy
- the game itself is a light card drafting and pattern matching game
- the common tableau of cheer up cards will show you a variety of different ways
- first player to gain 13 cheer up points or three cheer up cards of the same type wins the game
- whimsically unsuccessful cheer up scenarios
- the interferences of the purple life character
- guest art from over 30 other web comic artists including cyanide and happiness hot paper comics awoo dungeons and doggos womp and more
- this is a true all-star experience for any fan of webcomics
- these cards are a mixed bag some of them offering helpful abilities which you either play now or keep and play later
- you will also deal with the vicissitudes of life being forced to draw a life card whenever you swap brain cards with the display
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