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Year
2025
Players
3-5
Age
13+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Space meta-game featuring five linked mini-games involving politics Senate voting goods bidding and ship combat by Reiner Knizia
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Board Game Buzzz Gen Con Preview at 16:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting theme
- Snappy auction timing element
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Space politics, economics, and combat
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — There's also a timing element to the auction where there's an app or you can just use um something a timer on your phone and as the timer ticks down the less money the winners will play.
- ship combat — bidding on lucrative space goods, or resorting to ship combat.
- Voting — You'll be casting your votes in the Senate, bidding on lucrative space goods, or resorting to ship combat.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is the biggest board game convention in America.
- I literally had over 70 that I had saved.
- In Spooktacular, you are becoming the monsters, I believe, that are haunting the people who are going to the movie theaters and like watching your movie.
- As one of those monsters, you are now free to wreak havoc. Terrify and devour unsuspecting movie goers in a race to become the most terrifying monster of all time.
- This is Tea Witches. Okay, for the OP games, I have been so excited for this one. I'm so nervous that I'm going to play it and it's going to be meh or all right because I've like built it up so much in my head.
- Everything about this game just screams me and I need it.
- I'm so sad that I'm not going to Gen Con.
- Like I have FOMO so
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Hungry Gamer Review at 0:09 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84170 · mention_pk 213656
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Attractive and abundant art
- Good production quality (ballot boxes, dice, cardboard)
- Jam-packed box with lots of content for the price
- Engaging card drafting and auction mechanics
- Fun and satisfying app-assisted auction
- Simple and enjoyable mini-games on planets
- Satisfying randomization of scoring events
- Offers hard choices with meaningful consequences
- Clear visibility of upcoming scoring allows for strategic planning
- High replayability due to randomized elements
- Generally positive experience once learned
- Considered potentially the best AllPlay game the reviewer has played
Cons
- Challenging to teach due to many different game elements
- Point salad nature may not appeal to all players
- Mechanic of spending points for auctions might deter conservative players
- Voting mechanic can be easy to forget or become irrelevant
- Requires at least three players, ideally four, making it harder to get to the table
- Not a deep game; gameplay loop can become repetitive
- The auction mechanic, while fun, can be stressful for some
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Lunar Rush
- Mario Party
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area influence — Players place influence tokens on stations and regions to gain control and score points.
- auction/bidding — Features a prominent auction aspect, using an app for a real-time bidding experience where players spend money based on how long they wait to bid.
- Card Drafting — Players draft three cards each round, deciding whether to play them for resources, influence, or to auction them off.
- Dice Rolling — Used in the defense action where players roll dice to determine invader movement and areas for influence placement.
- event cards — Event cards trigger various effects, including scoring tracks, changing laws, or presenting players with choices.
- Point Salad — The game is a point salad where the goal is to accumulate the most money, with various ways to earn points through different actions and scoring conditions.
- Push Your Luck — A push-your-luck tile-flipping action occurs on the planets, where players can continue flipping for rewards or stop before hitting a penalty like an alien.
- Resource Management — Involves managing different types of resources, such as lava, which can be used to advance on resource tracks.
- Set Collection — Relics are collected, and sets of these are needed for in-game scoring.
- Voting — Players cast votes for senators, which can change scoring conditions or trigger events, adding a political element.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And to me, the thing that stands out the most is the auction aspect of this game.
- It's fun. It is really fun and I really appreciate that you have to pick what's going to be what as you draw each one.
- Using that app is a lot of fun.
- All around, I really do enjoy that.
- Even though it is a simple game because there's all the different mini games going on, it's a little bit harder to teach than you think it would be.
- Next thing is, and probably what is the most important to people is this game is a point salad.
- But at the same time, this is not a game that is an event game.
- I think this might be the best AllPlay game that I have played, period.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Unboxing at 38:38 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84109 · mention_pk 213317
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Nice components (see-through tiles with constellations).
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile laying — Uses small, see-through, tiled components with constellations on them, drawn from a bag.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- nobody, including us, need this many games.
- This is Divan. Mhm. I don't know anything about this game. I bought it because it looks beautiful.
- This could have easily been a Reiner Knizia game I feel like.
- And I love a reason to play Lost Ruins of Arnak Lost Ruins of Arnak because I think it's a great game.
- We have to empty our unplayed game shelf from everything that's not 2025 releases and then we'll put it in there and the rest go on the floor until we manage to play them.
- And it's based on the problem called what is called again it's based on the seven bridges of somewhere.
- I feel kind of like bad about bringing a hundred games back home.
- I I usually they go in, they go out. And that's also the thing like if I haven't played a game in a month, I will not remember the rules most of the time.
- The longest line I saw was for coffee. In the morning before the whole office.
- What's more important for you for the channel? Playing the popular ones or the less known niche ones?
- My favorite animal beside the monkey which is my favorite animal. The capybara.
- We are basically very lucky because we share a lot of hobbies.
- The building thing Ah, it was too much building. I didn't like that too much.
- It's been super fun. It's so many people. It's been so long since we did a live.
- Thank you so much for watching. Like it. We wouldn't have done this if it wasn't for you.
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Hungry Gamer Top List at 6:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Enjoy it.
- Really a fun, clever little game.
- Will be taking it to the next local con.
- Plays quick (about 90 minutes with 3-4 players including teaching).
Cons
- Fair amount of chaos.
- Fair amount of randomness.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Andromeda's Edge
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dutch auction — Uses a Dutch auction system where players can wait for cheaper prices, but risk others buying first.
- point-salad — A super point-salad game.
- randomness — A fair amount of randomness thrown in there.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And before I jump into any of this, this is the last full monthly menu of the year.
- And what that does is it kind of takes away the advantage for games that are much shorter.
- I am going to be happy if I got three of the five picked for the month.
- It's not perfect because if the app crashes or something, you have to start the whole thing over, which was a little bit of a bummer.
- Short answer is yes. I am going to dive in.
- It was a tense hard game that came down to the last two turns if we were going to be able to survive and we did.
- It has a very cool simple solo mode where you're pulling little tokens out of a bag and that's sending the bot you're playing around.
- And the art is just so great in that game.
- Because I only played it solo several times, and I played Uprising solo several times, but also played a four-player game, which is much, much lengthier, the tiebreak went to my actual number five, which is Uprising: The Curse of the Last Emperor.
- The solo mode just really opens this game up as something that I will play so much more than I have in the past.
- Just really, really great game. Really enjoy it and definitely has new life for me.
- And this is a game that I'll say that I think should be played either solo or with three or four players. I don't think it shines at two.
- And I definitely didn't shine at two cuz I lost that game 25 to one. Got utterly smashed.
- And it's rare for me to play a game and get beaten so badly that I'm just like, well, this is just miserable. And I definitely got there at one point.
- Still want to keep playing and smashed so bad that I was like, is this game over yet? Still want to keep playing.
- It's not an Andromeda's Edge Killer. Different games. They just both say Andromeda. Simmerred down Luke Lori and Peter Vaughn. That's all I'm saying.
- And this is a Rhino Kenichia game from All Play. though. I am pretty sure it is a reimagining reworking of one of his older games.
- And this is one that uses the Dutch auction system where you're trying to get cards and the longer you wait, the cheaper things are. And someone can jump in and they got to pay full price.
- And it's a super point solid game with a fair amount of chaos, a fair amount of randomness thrown in there.
- It's really a fun, clever little game and one that I'm definitely gonna be taking with me to the next local con as one to kind of get out on the table, play quick.
- This game is takes three minutes to teach, takes five minutes to play and it's just so much fun.
- You are throwing down cards, tiles as it were, and you take a picture of everything and the app does everything you need.
- It has all these variants with all these asteroids you can flip one way or the other or player powers you can turn on or off and it's just a blast.
- Just one of the best low stress games. It's very high stress but very low stress because when we play we do like six or eight second turns.
- Really, really clever. Really, really fun. Really enjoy it.
- And this and now that I actually have a copy, this is one that I suspect you're going to be seeing on monthly menus fairly regularly going forward.
- And one of the best things about being a board game media person is every once in a while you get to meet really cool people.
- And in this case, several years ago, I got to e meet and then eventually at conventions met in person. I got to meet Jerry Hawthorne, the designer, and we become gaming buddies.
- And we played through the entire second campaign. And threequarters of that we played this month and just a great time.
- Had a great time playing through the story. And uh we didn't do very well.
- And I learned something. I learned that it is possible to complete the campaign and still kind of lose the campaign, which was just so funny and I'm really excited to play more of it.
- As I said, I don't have any except for Sea Shanties, which is on the list, and then everything that is on my game of the year contenders.
- Noble Knight Games is the place to go.
- Thanks to all the channel members. I'll point out that we have two new members this month, and I'm very excited about that.
- The little bit of money that comes in through memberships is just such a boon for me.
- Well, there you have it, folks. This is the last regular monthly menu of 2025.
- And finally, if you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay area, come come play some games with me at Kubicon Fall, which is the weekend of November 15th in Berlingame.
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Hungry Gamer Analysis at 6:17
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Pros
none
Cons
none
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)
- And the only truly scientific way to pick which game is best in Beatric's world, and that is blueberries.
- And whoever happens to be the winner will get this amazing seal that they can do whatever they want with.
- And the most exciting thing for you all the viewers is there are prizes galore.
- And this time, it's not a physical copy like last year. This time, it is a pledge. They have a campaign going right now as I'm recording this.
- And finally, we have what I think is the all-time greatest con game in the world, and that is Light Speed Arena.
- And so that is how this is going to work. This is one of my favorite times of the year. I love doing this. Beatric loves doing it.
- And the only truly scientific game of the year competition in all of the world.
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Video CoZrE_BiBuE
Top List at 3:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Significant player interaction.
- Awesome Dutch auction system.
- Engaging outer space mini-games.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- outer space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — player interaction through area majority
- Dutch auction — an awesome Dutch auction system
- Voting — player interaction through voting
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's been a tiring task, but it's getting me stoked.
- Can I first just say how stressful it was making this list?
- narrowing it down to only 10, it felt brutal.
- There's some really cool looking games that you can demo at Gen Con, but this list isn't about those.
- It looks like a total blast.
- I mean, I just have to get pumped about anything he's working on at this point.
- This is exactly what I love about Clank, and it looks like this strikes that same chord.
- To be honest, it's not really fair to the rest of the games on a preview list if there's a new Jaime Stagmar game, or as I like to call them, a Jaime Gamy coming out.
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Board Game Animal Top 10 List at 0:13 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Highly unique and visually characterful design
- Engaging Dutch auction integration via the app
- Interesting mini-games with potential depth
Cons
- Visually overstimulating / noisy boards
- High upkeep and admin with numerous bits
- AP and downtime can detract; group-dependent experience
Thematic elements
- Market competition and negotiation
- Interstellar trade with a multi-mini-game structure
- Abstract, design-driven with strong visuals
Comparison games
- Merchants of Amsterdam
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area control via mini-games — Multiple micro-games that influence scoring and control
- Auction / Bidding — App-assisted Dutch auctions on each turn
- Dutch auction — App-assisted Dutch auctions on each turn
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Visually overstimulating and a bit noisy, but the art is fantastic.
- The Dutch auction element is fascinating and well-implemented with the app.
- This is extremely unique in and of itself as a game.
- I think this is the best horrified yet, and a great choice for folks who may not have jived with past versions.
- This is one of those games that covers all its bases.
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Board Game Animal Top 100 List at 5:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging exploration theme and tile flip mechanics
Cons
- Limited production or availability could hinder access
Thematic elements
- economic negotiation and tile interaction
- space-trade exploration
- economic strategy
Comparison games
- Space-trade/area-control hybrids
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — control regions to optimize trade scoring
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Not to mention recording a over-the-top dream sequence music video for one of his games as well.
- Definitely not any sort of objective best of list.
- These are my favorites.
- I definitely don't have time to go into crazy detail on them, especially for the first 50 or 70 or more.
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Before You Play Playthrough
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is an auction style game with a few mini games for three to five players
- By the end of the game, the player with the most money wins
- The app is optional, but it's very useful for the countdown, and you can replace it with a verbal timer
- Artifacts are endgame scoring; you can score up to 21 points per set
- Winning auctions early can yield bigger endgame payoffs since scoring occurs multiple times
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