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Description
Winter is upon us and its dark and cruel night brings forth dreadful menaces, worse than frostbite...
Zombicide Medieval Fantasy is back!
With new survivors, new zombies, new setting, and new rules!
Scale the great walls to your advantage
Use the added height of the fortress walls to escape the Zombies' grasp, dump cauldrons of hot tar onto enemies below, and gain superior line of sight!
Arm yourself to the teeth
Command a retinue of guards to push back against the Zombie Horde and use unique Survivor skills to bolster their abilities.
Melee Attack… From a distance
Cut down the Zombie horde with shiny new polearm-type weapons. Melee without ever having to get in close range!
Freeze Zombies dead in their tracks!
Draw on the surrounding icy elements and channel it towards your foes preventing them from taking any actions.
Mind the ruin zones
The constant zombie siege has wrought devastation onto the lands. Crumbling buildings offer little to search for, yet remain challenging to shoot through.
And stop the corruption!
Necromancers send waves of corruption close to the beacon to steal its power and spawn zombies each time they activate. If the beacon gets corrupted, all hope is lost!
And this is only the tip of the iceberg!
—description from the publisher
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Hungry Gamer Review at 0:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cool minis with detail
- Clever color-coding for enemy types
- Clever character dashboards with functional sliders and backpack space
- Streamlined gameplay with few rules to remember
- Elements of crisis management keep pressure on
- Variety in scenarios makes each game feel different
- Good character variety through gear and leveling
- Gear and legendary vault weapons add interest
- Thematic damage system
- Works well as a one-off game
- Enjoys the theme despite not liking zombies
- Good for teaching new players
- Adds new elements like guards and walls effectively
Cons
- Pegs on dashboards can be tough to insert and remove
- Game can feel long and attrition-based in later scenarios
- Requires controlling six survivors, which can be a lot for solo or two-player games
- Damage system means powerful enemies like Abominations can be difficult or impossible to kill directly
- Not designed for campaign play with carryover between missions
Thematic elements
- Zombie invasion
- Winterguard
Comparison games
- Zombicide: Black Plague
- Zombicide: Green Horde
- Massive Darkness
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — Players have a set number of actions per turn, which can be used for moving, searching, trading, combat, activating objectives, making noise, or doing nothing.
- Dice Rolling — Combat involves rolling dice, with hits on a five-plus for standard attacks. Higher rolls (six-plus) might deal additional damage.
- Enemy Spawning — Enemies spawn based on the highest adrenaline level of the heroes, with different types of zombies appearing.
- Environmental interaction — The game includes environmental elements like cauldrons of scolding oil and dragon fire that can be used to damage enemies.
- Experience/Leveling Up — Heroes gain 'adrenaline' (experience) which allows them to level up. Leveling up unlocks new skills and additional actions.
- Line of Sight — Walls can block zombies, and line of sight is a factor for targeting.
- Loot/Gear Acquisition — Players can search for gear in buildings without zombies. Legendary treasure can be obtained by defeating powerful enemies.
- Modular Board/Scenario Based — Each game has a different objective and setup, contributing to replayability.
- Noise generation — Making noise attracts zombies, which can be used strategically to manage their movement.
- Variable player powers — Heroes can unlock different skills as they level up, leading to specialized roles. Characters can also be customized through gear.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It is the ultimate beer and pretzels game it just nails it.
- The core tension of the game is this crisis management that you're doing.
- Cool minis. They are filled with detail, good sculpts and they look really good.
- It is a very streamlined game and I really appreciate that.
- I think this game is best for one-offs right.
- This ain't it this is oneoff good time not going to take up a ton of space on the shelf.
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Hungry Gamer Top List at 3:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really good minis
- Quick, easy combat
- Interesting strategy with walls
- Fast setup
- Easy to play
- Good, solid, quick, easy to get to the table, fast to play
- Every game is new
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Combat — Quick, easy combat.
- Modular Board — This one adds this really interesting bit of strategy with the way the walls work in Zombicide.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Welcome folks to the Hungry Gamers back with another episode of the monthly menu.
- And today we're talking about the top five games of March 2025.
- And apologies for this being about a week late.
- As I mentioned in the last monthly menu, I've been working on a play. Canadian Kev was actually down here directing the play and that has now just opened.
- And of course I promptly got sick and I'm still recovering from that.
- So everything's been a little bit behind, a little bit slow, but here we are. Monthly menu.
- And before I go any further, a quick call out to Fight in a Box Games, who have the greatest t-shirts in the world, and I bought one right here. You can see little dumpster fire t-shirt. I highly recommend getting one. I love them. They're great and very much illustrative of the state of the world in my opinion.
- Anyhow, as a reminder, what this is is this is the games that hit my table the most in the month of March.
- And as always, digital plays, if they're done in real time, count. I count them as less than a real time meat space play and so on.
- But jumping right in to last month's picks, we started out with the list. didn't happen.
- Next, we had STI. Again, I was being hopeful that I would get that to the table, but it was going to have to happen before Canadian Kev got down here. He's not a huge Eurogame lover.
- And so again, another month, second month in a row, it remains on the unplayed list.
- Next, we had Reckeners. That was one that I said I was confident was going to get played the night that I recorded the monthly menu.
- And yes, it did. We played against one of the expansion bosses, Regalia, and we did a whole five player game and had a good time.
- I learned that I don't think Reckeners is at its best at five. I think it's at its best at three or four.
- But again, still a really good game because everybody is involved every single turn. that works really, really well with a large player count.
- Love Reckoners. Really happy to keep on playing it.
- Next on the list is Aridia and yes, absolutely played it. We played two or three different games.
- Canadian Kev, myself, Mrs. Hungry Gamer. I don't know that Mrs. Hungry Gamer is going to keep playing just with our time, but she might.
- Canadian Kev, he's obviously has left to come back to Canada, so I'll be taking over his character.
- Suspicions this is going to wind up on a most played of the month several times throughout the year. really enjoying it.
- And then the last one was Moon Rollers from IV Games and I just didn't get to it and just one of those that with rehearsals just did not have the time.
- So, moving into the top five games of the month and as you can imagine, it is a little bit of a lighter playlist than I normally have because I was rehearsing this play in the evenings and so on.
- But coming at number five, that is Zombicide White Death, the retail edition.
- And I enjoy Zombide. I have a video out about it.
- I think it is. Well, it is Zombicide. Nothing new there. Everything the same.
- Really good minis, quick, easy combat.
- But this one adds this really interesting bit of strategy with the way the walls work in Zombicide.
- Fast setup, easy to play.
- Probably want to chase down like one kind of monster expansion or something if if they have those.
- I can't remember if Zombicide has those that or if that's just Massive Darkness.
- But good, solid, quick, easy to get to the table, fast to play. Every game is new. Can't really complain about it. Had a had a very good time with it. Enjoyed it.
- Number four on the list is Wandering Galaxy.
- Now, this is a neat one to me because I got to play this several times during the month with Jerry Hawthorne, the designer, who has become a buddy of mine over past few years.
- and he zoomed in to our sessions cuz he obviously has his own sessions, his own cards.
- and he ran one of the different stations that was a little bit easier to kind of just give off to somebody on his own.
- And so we actually got to play through and I got to play several sessions with Jerry.
- We finished an entire campaign. We just finished it uh yesterday and it's just great. It's just so very good.
- I loved loved love playing this game. I'm absolutely going I'm absolutely going to try solo campaign.
- Really really really enjoyed it.
- In my opinion, it took all the issues I had with both of the other games and it's wiped them away and it's just so so much fun.
- I'm actually really looking to trying this one solo whereas the others I really wasn't interested in playing solo as much as I liked the games.
- Moving into number three, that is Elder Scrolls: Betrayal: The Second Era.
- And this is one that only got a few sessions played, but these are long games.
- and Canadian Kev is a huge fan.
- And so he came down, I we put it out, I made a really dumb character using the expansion material that I didn't really know if it was a good idea to pick these abilities right out of the gate and the answer is no, it wasn't, but man, we made a good show of it for a little bit and then we just got waxed.
- It's a very good game. Really, really good.
- I don't know anything about the Elder Scrolls universe, so I probably care less than many other people do.
- It's not knocking too many bones off the list for me right now, but it is very good. It is very fun, really enjoyable, great character creation, just all around a very, very good game.
- Coming at number two is one that I have to say thank you to Aldi from Board GameGeeek who told me to check this thing out cuz it was a lovely surprise to him, and that is a game called Fate: Defenders of Grimheim.
- And this is a tower defense game where you're sending your Vikings out all around the board to beat back the hordes trying to destroy Grimheim.
- And as you're doing that, you'll be leveling up by defeating monsters. Then you get new abilities or you can advance abilities.
- But you also have gear that you can go collect if you go do a thing. It might be as simple as go spend an attack action in the bandit camp somewhere on the board. Get a new gear.
- And as you're going through, you're just increasing all these things that you can do. So turns get more and more powerful as it gets more and more desperate.
- Very, very easy to play, but very, very fun and has this wonderful art and wonderful sense of humor to it.
- Just I adore it. So good.
- That brings us to number one on the list, and that is Aridia.
- I've talked about this a lot. I waited years for this game, and it takes a little bit to get into it.
- You got to kind of learn what's going on and I need to get it back to the table before I lose it.
- But a really good start to this campaign for me. I've already played four games. I'm still calling it a start. I'm digging in.
- It looks beautiful. It's huge. I mean, it's right it's right it's right here. You can't quite see it, but it's this massive box. It's got so much in it, but it's just a beautiful game. Great components.
- Interesting things going on. My only thing so far is I had a little bit of a hard time figuring out kind of where some of the cards are supposed to go, but now that I've get that figured out, it's really moving and really cooking.
- So, really pleased with Aridia so far. Looking forward to playing more of it.
- So, moving into my picks for the month. Third month in a row is going to be on here. I'm hoping I can get original Dawn to play this with me sometime soon. Just I like it. I just need to play it.
- Next is the list. I am not confident the list is going to happen because Mrs. Hungry Gamer, now that I am not super busy, she is super busy. So, I don't think it's going to happen.
- We have like four games left on the list to play and we just keep not getting to them. But maybe hopefully, I don't know.
- Next on the list is Red Dragon in. Just regular old Red Dragon in. It's one of my favorite games that I shouldn't like.
- And I say that because it's just mean pure. Take that. But I love the art. I love the characters. They even have the characters feel very different even though at their core they are the same.
- I got tons of characters and I always have a great time. It's just such a wonderful way to kind of end a game night. So want to get that played. Love it always.
- Next is one that I just got for review and that is Azul Duel.
- And I've always been more of a cigarada than a Zulu fan. And I put them together cuz it kind of came out roughly the same time. They're both very pretty.
- But I've played a fair amount of Azul and I've heard great things about Azul Duel and there had an opportunity to review it. So I got it. It's here and looking forward to that.
- And the last one is right here. This is from 21st Century Games and that is Run Run Run.
- And this is a co-op game where you are a cat trying to get away from like dog mummy things going through a dungeon.
- And Beatatric, the board game dog, clearly doesn't approve of it, but she also understands like cats are the worst. Chase them out of here.
- In fact, she has one cat that likes to taunt her in the backyard. It's always drama early in the morning. I have to wake up for it.
- But I had to have it. And 21st Century Games was nice enough to send it to me. I'm really looking forward to trying this one.
- So, those are my picks for April. I am not confident I'm going get all of them. I'm hoping to get maybe three of them. That's my hope.
- So, next thing, as always, I have to say thank you to Noble Knight Games for being my sponsor.
- What that means is they give me some store credit every month.
- And if you buy games from their store, which I do recommend because you can find a whole bunch of used games there and new games, prices will vary depending on how rare it is that you're looking for.
- But it's a place that I've been using since the very beginning of my gaming adventure before I even had a channel.
- So, I've always been a fan of them.
- But if you make a purchase using my link down in the description, I will get a small percentage as store credit.
- and that does come back around and turn into stuff that gets covered on the channel.
- And then more importantly, sorry, Noble Knight, are my channel members as always. You can see their names scrolling across the bottom. Thank you very much to all of you for supporting the channel.
- As I always say, every single month I do this. This is what allows me to continue to slowly improve things.
- It got us the Beatric Cam. It got us better audio for when I'm recording, you know, the top down view. allows me to do better recording of multiple people if I'm playing two-player playthroughs and things like that and better lights and so on and so on.
- So, thank you to everybody who is a channel member. It really is so very helpful.
- You can come in at 99 cents all the way up to like 10 bucks a month up to you. Different things you get at every level.
- At the very least, at the 99 cent level, you're going to get advanced viewing of stuff and extra opportunities to win giveaways and those kinds of things.
- I am not going to be so tacky as to say I could not do this without you because I did do this without you and I would continue to do this without you.
- But it does allow me to do more and get better stuff and occasionally cover things that you specifically ask me to cover.
- So, thank you very very much. Please consider becoming a channel member if you'd like.
- That is the monthly menu for March 2025.
- As always, if you found this video useful, please like, subscribe, share, maybe become a channel member.
- Thank you so much for watching. Have a wonderful, wonderful day.
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Quackalope Discussion at 21:59
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Quotes (from this video)
- I don't want to trick or deceive anyone, but I also know they're not they're not quite asking for the truth.
- Becoming a parent has been the most satisfying, rewarding, transformative, um, revealing in some ways challenging uh, moment of my life.
- I used to spend 80 to 100 hours a week obsessively fixated on the gaming industry playing board games, talking board games, filming board games, editing board games, purchasing Kickstarters, and so on and so forth.
- The internet has a long and short-term memory. It remembers all of your failures, every single one.
- The dopamine-seeking behavior intrinsic in a dopamine deplete brain, the the ADHD framework, um the channel for five plus years was this aggressive obsessive source of stimulation.
- I have a hard time seeing exactly how that will work, but I think it's totally possible.
- So, what I'll say, and maybe this is still ambitious, is that I'm here, that I'm excited, that I care, that I'm invested, that I'm doing my best to figure stuff out.
- Not hyper obsessive consumerrist propaganda might be the right word like a lot of board game industry seems to be. But diligent, dedicated, wellressearched, helpful, the type of content that I turn to when looking for information on games.
- I hope one day we can meet and we can play a game.
- If you discover something new about yourself that seems to be highly impactful in every moment of your life for the past 32 years, obsessively buy all the books you can find around that specific subject and and read them unrelentingly trying to figure out exactly what the neurological makeup of your brain is and why it screws you over so often.
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One Stop Co-op Shop Analysis at 2:49 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Really solid Zombicide entry
- Liked the sort of anthropomorphic characters
- Liked the way the castle walls and like the guards helping you work is really cool
- Solid one if you want an entry into the Zombicide franchise
- Can't go wrong with White's Death
Cons
- Don't know if I need to keep it
- Prefer other zombie-like, tactical miniature moving around scenario-based games
Thematic elements
- Castle
Comparison games
- Zombicide
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Anthropomorphic Characters — Liked the sort of anthropomorphic characters.
- Castle Mechanics — Liked the way the castle walls and like the guards helping you work is really cool.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Seven games kept out of 12. Although some of these were like favorites. They got reprints or, you know, competitive coverage of my favorite games ever or expansions for some of my favorite games ever. So, only a few of these are really surprising, I would say.
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The Discriminating Gamer Top 30 List at 11:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- NPC-driven dynamics add depth
- Expansions (e.g., TMNT) enhance play variety
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Array
- Zombies in Asia near the Great Wall
- Cooperative survival with NPCs
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — Players cooperate to survive zombie hordes.
- cooperative play — Players cooperate to survive zombie hordes.
- NPC usage — NPCs provide additional actions and options for players.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's really really a fun game.
- I was delightful. I really enjoyed it.
- it's a hoot.
- I really enjoyed it.
- This is a great solitaire game.
- I would read it to her and she'd make all the decisions.
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Board Game Critique Analysis at 11:53
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Quotes (from this video)
- The board game industry is in trouble.
- The bubble is about to burst. Or honestly, why it's already bursting right now.
- Publishers closing, crowdfunding numbers dropping, tariffs hitting like a freight train.
- This isn't a few bad breaks. This is structural.
- The crowdfunding model won't disappear. It'll just grow up.
- The tariffs are the accelerant, not the fire.
- A designer is going to make something extraordinary that fits in a box the size of a paperback, retails for $35, and becomes the next ticket to ride.
- The board game hobby isn't dying.
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Sir Thecos Discussion at 1:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Worked quite well
- Decent time
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Zombicide
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- As soon as I finish playing Ark Nova, I'm thinking about Ark Nova again.
- This is the game that made me want to try and figure out how to play card drafting games, how to play action selection games.
- It's a classic engine builder, and it still holds up today.
- The scale of the game is huge and it feels like you're really accomplishing something.
- Each faction plays completely differently, offering huge replayability.
- It's a challenging game with a lot of moving parts.
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BoardGameCo Top List at 9:14 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Continued evolution of Zombicide experiences
- New twists on the zombie formula
Cons
- Holding multiple Zombicide lines can saturate the market
Thematic elements
- zombie-survival with new twists
- zombie apocalypse
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative gameplay — Players cooperate to survive waves of zombies
- zombie combat / dice-based resolution — Dice-driven outcomes for encounters
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Quotes (from this video)
- My number one is God of War.
- Circle the Wagons will get tabled, the second edition of it, more content to mix it in.
- Onward is the spiritual successor to Sky Tier.
- Lands of Evershade was neck and neck with past tread and the more I played it, the more I’m excited.
- The Dead Keep was excellent, though boss battles could use polishing.
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Board Game Coffee Unboxing at 2:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Stunning, intricate miniatures with dynamic sculpts
- Rich art and variety of enemy types
- Extensive accessory and upgrade components
Cons
- Very large and heavy box, may be cumbersome for casual players
- Complex rules and many expansions can overwhelm new players
Thematic elements
- Cooperative zombie survival with modular quests and puzzles
- Snowy winter apocalypse with ruined fortifications
- Campaign/quest-driven with escalating threats
Comparison games
- Massive Darkness 2
- Rising Sun
- Marvel Zombies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-driven quests and events — Quest cards drive gameplay and storytelling.
- Character equipment and upgrades — Collect items and upgrade characters for better combat.
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to complete quests while managing threats.
- cooperative gameplay — Players work together to complete quests while managing threats.
- Expansion of enemy variety (abominations, hordes) — Different enemy types scale the challenge and variety.
- Modular Board — A tile-based map that can be assembled differently for variety.
- Modular board and tiles — A tile-based map that can be assembled differently for variety.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I miss doing these unboxings.
- The art is amazing as always.
- 100% of proceeds from these Be Creative shirts go to Sick Kids Hospital.
- Massive amount of minis—jade dice look great.
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