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Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
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Refuge - Board Game Review
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Allies or Enemies Review at 0:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Charming, adorable theme and artwork
- Bright, beautiful components
- Simple, quick, and accessible
- Two mechanics (push your luck and bag-building) integrated cleanly
- Replayability due to different tile sets
Cons
- Two-player game not as strong as higher player counts
- Wished for more bag-building variety
- Walk length and pacing can vary with player count
Thematic elements
- Meandering nature walk, weather danger
- Forest walk with a looming storm; two to four players
- Light, charming, walk-through theme with subtle storm tension
Comparison games
- Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Can't Stop
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Add tiles to your bag and spend boots to acquire more tiles.
- bag-building — Add tiles to your bag and spend boots to acquire more tiles.
- Push Your Luck — Draw tiles from a bag to add to your walk; decide when to stop before storms hit.
- push-your-luck — Draw tiles from a bag to add to your walk; decide when to stop before storms hit.
- Tile Placement — Place drawn tiles face-down along a walking route; some tiles carry storms.
- Weather track / storm mechanic — Storm tiles must be added to a weather track; too many storms cause players to rush home.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The theme for Refuge is very charming.
- I love that you're just like Meandering.
- It's a nice walk game, it's quick and charming.
- Push your luck is really at the heart of this game.
- Two players doesn't shine as much.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 8:14 sentiment: negative
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negative
Pros
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Cons
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Thematic elements
- Cooperative exploration
- Bag-building with luck elements
- lucky
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag-building / push-your-luck — Collecting items with luck-based draws
- Push Your Luck — Collecting items with luck-based draws
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Quotes (from this video)
- Look Back, where I take a look at reviews that I did a year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago this week, and tell you what I think about them now.
- This game was very much a Sudoku board game. I would play it a whole lot less today.
- It's now impossible to find. It has not been reprinted for a lot of uh litigation reasons.
- I think the second game in the Dice Tower Essentials line.
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