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Year
2025
Players
3-6
Age
14+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
Satirical trick-taking card game where players bid for trump and can trigger a revolution flipping the social hierarchy so lowest cards become most powerful
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Board Gaymes James Top 10 List at 3:58 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- interesting political satire twist on trick-taking
- dynamic trump adds strategic depth
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- political satire in trick-taking
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding phase for party leader — players bid to lead a phase before trick-taking begins
- Dynamic Trump — trump suit changes dynamically during play
- Trick-Taking — winning a trick with a one-card can 'tax the rich' and steal points
- trick-taking with stealing — winning a trick with a one-card can 'tax the rich' and steal points
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love their cute card games.
- There are random patterns and you are kind of creating this way to determine what that pattern is.
- This is another kind of trick-taking game.
- The killer is trying to get victims.
- This is one of my favorite games.
- The artwork is beautiful.
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Video FuMmQWQsf90
UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 3:20:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The idea of flipping the social hierarchy with a revolution mechanic is appealing.
- The cover art is liked by one of the speakers.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Climb the social ladder or kick it over.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — Each round begins with a little bidding phase for both the trump color and the number of tricks required to score bonus points.
- Hand Management — Players play one card from their hand and choose one of three actions for it.
- Trick-Taking — Winner of the bid must then acquire the cards played by trick-taking.
- Variable player powers — The description mentions a poor incompetent leader, implying player powers or roles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Carnival of Kalamala. That game, that game has been like reprinted how many times? It seems like
- Antagonist of Temple of Doom.
- Adam Pastor, a no auto game where multi-use cars and growing traumas test your crew.
- Vantage looks cool.
- this is basically an escape room. 18 cars.
- 60 minutes. An 18 escape adventure. It takes an hour and it costs 10 bucks or€10.
- You saw a full length escape room using just 18 playing cards.
- Lay your tracks to revolutionize the Japan railway industry.
- Oh, that looks pretty euro.
- it's not euro, but I do like his designs.
- Bomb busters.
- Bombbusters.
- That is awesome.
- Yokohama is also awesome. Yokohama is an awesome game.
- Tracerian Anniversary Edition.
- It's a big giant box, right?
- Build your Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
- It's got a weird It's got a weird thing going on there.
- It's like a draft maybe or something. I don't know.
- Well, it's like like you're creating things to help you protect you when like the Vikings show up. I don't know. It looks It looks
- Survival of the planet.
- Escape from the prison planet.
- Oh, I don't like that.
- Some hack. Schneider.
- My apologies to Ingo Schneider and all of his friends and family. I you're much better artist than I'll ever be.
- That sounds really fun.
- You can already buy it on Amazon.
- Formidable.
- Fulfill wishes of the village population with the supply of field crops and rewards.
- Propolis.
- I have played propolis propulolis.
- Isn't that uh that's a bee thing.
- Yeah, it's bees.
- it's basically like a splendor but with like a little extra.
- It wasn't It's like a seven out of 10 for me. You know, it was good, but like
- It's Splendoric, you know.
- Oh my gosh, what a depressing theme.
- 1975 White Christmas direct the air evacuations of Operation Frequent Wind from Saigon's rooftops.
- Oh, that's intense.
- Wow.
- Well, those looping games are pretty deep. Like the small box that they're coming in.
- They're pushing the the ship that off the the carrier. Yeah, they they cuz they were running out to so they could put more people like they because they didn't have time to refuel. The they that's true thing. So they didn't have time to refuel the helicopters and more helicopters are coming that had to land and so instead of like they just they just pushed them into the ocean.
- Yeah. You wouldn't see that today.
- People over machines.
- Yeah.
- what a depressing theme.
- Penguin Kaboom.
- red carpet, the leprechaun lararseny, baby.
- Iliad, a game of trust, tragedy, and the unknown.
- All right, this is the last one I'm clicking on. It's 1:00 in the morning, and I am I I I've got Afterboom to talk to you about, and then I got a
- Shinjakor that puts you in a Victorian Victorian area ghost story area.
- This game is either fully cooperative or one versus all.
- Only you have no way of knowing which one.
- Yeah, I like the cover.
- Purple Lantern Games. Never even heard of them.
- they've only made two games.
- This is what they've made.
- Purple Lantern Games. Let's go to your website.
- Get the game we made.
- They value your privacy.
- I I I am I am convinced it does nothing. It does absolutely nothing.
- Well, stay tuned next week everybody for our indepth
- our in-depth analysis of the eight
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:46:46 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Interested
Pros
- Appealing artwork.
- Thematically relevant to real-life political/economic discussions.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Taxing the rich, left-wing politics
- Modern day political/economic theme
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — There's an area control element, possibly related to influencing regions or gaining dominance.
- Card Drafting — The description implies card drafting or hand management is involved.
- Route Building — Route building is mentioned as a mechanic, suggesting players create paths or connections.
- Trick taking — The game is identified as a trick-taking game.
- Trick-Taking — Trick taking isn't necessarily my favorite mechanic.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Factions that win that have their own abilities that have their own winning combinations.
- It's too heavy for me.
- Yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing.
- Yep. And nobody knows it exists.
- I played Circadian First Light and I liked it.
- Scrolling through this thing with you said with the 300 responses and the people arguing about this game and I s there and it's like it's so amusing. The best part about it is you have these people arguing about Marxism and and uh and democratic socialism everything like that and then you have the people that are just trying vainly to get answers about the mechanics of the game. How does this work with the tricks when you do the thing? And it's just people going back and forth about, you know, screaming about uh, you know, like like how they're going to fix the world or whatever, which I I get it, you know, just it's it's who doesn't do that? But that's that's the part it it reminds me of.
- I watched in disbelief as businessmen voted for a repeat bankrupt, laborers for a boss infamous for stiffing his workers. Evangel evangelicals for a serial adulter for an admitted sexual assaulter. Patriots for a draft dodger who would sell his country's secrets for trivial gain. educated men for an ignoramus. But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora's box. Yes, the old one filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and blood lust and infinite greed. and tell them that these things were the remedy for all of their grievances, that all their anger was justified, and most important, none of what ailed them was their own fault or ever had been.
- That is like the best paragraph I've ever uh Greg Isles in his book Southern Man.
- That is that is one of the that is uh yeah that was that is one of that is poetry.
- I played it and I could not remember anything. And that's it was such a quarter eater because they would like you'd be dead and it would like make you repeat the the move again and be like, 'Okay, is it left or right or up or down?' And you hit the button.
- No, it was free play, but it was like I played it and I'm like, 'Man, I really loved this back in the day and now I don't like it at all.'
- Everything but the ninjas is easy. The ninjas were like the the the And the ninjas just went on and on and on. You had to defeat like a thousand of them. It felt like
- Happy birthday, Bruno.
- It's just a It's just a It's just a virtual reality pinball.
- The elbow back. It was the most powerful move in the game.
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Board Gaymes James Playthrough at 1:13 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Compact and quick with a satirical flavor
- Clear thematic hook for players who enjoy political themes
Cons
- Rules can be quirky or opaque in a live run-through
- Market interactions not fully explored in the discussion
Thematic elements
- Taxation as a game mechanic and negotiation
- Satirical political economy focusing on taxation and wealth
- satirical, card-driven negotiation and income generation
Comparison games
- Norse Wind
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — selecting and upgrading cards to improve income and points
- hand_management_and_upgrades — selecting and upgrading cards to improve income and points
- prestige_and_wealth_scoring — scoring influenced by prestige and wealth in a political economy framing
- trick_taking — card-based trick-taking mechanic referenced during discussion
- Trick-Taking — card-based trick-taking mechanic referenced during discussion
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "This game really is that simple."
- "Oh, this game is broken."
- "We’re playing North Wind the year 793."
- "I still think that art is AI."
- "There's no way to like sweep the market."
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Playthrough at 10:09 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- strong thematic integration (feminism and class commentary)
- interactive negotiation and alliance-building adds social dynamic
- humor and cultural references keep the session engaging
- supports an advanced variant for deeper complexity
Cons
- learning curve is steep due to many interlocking rules
- balance concerns (e.g., plus 10 to female characters) can feel uneven
- revolution timing and rule interactions may be confusing during play
Thematic elements
- economic inequality, revolution, feminism, and power structures
- Political satire with class dynamics and feminist commentary during trick-taking gameplay
- open negotiation with evolving rules and social commentary embedded in gameplay
Comparison games
- Star Trek
- Stargate
- Stargate Atlantis
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Bowser revolution (Mario Party reference)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- advanced variant rule cards — Optional rules that modify how tricks, following, and penalties work each round, including class/revolution twists.
- ally/party leader mechanic — The party leader selects an ally by naming a card; together they must win a target number of tricks to gain bonus points.
- revolution and open-hand variant — If conditions are met, a revolution can be declared which may reveal hands and switch card rankings for the rest of the round.
- Simultaneous Reveal — If conditions are met, a revolution can be declared which may reveal hands and switch card rankings for the rest of the round.
- trick-taking with bidding to determine the Trump suit — Players bid to set the Trump color/condition for the round; the longest bid determines the party leader and ally setup.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The feminism part is actually probably the best part of the game.
- All of the cards have a feminist symbol.
- Plus 10 to female characters is kind of broken.
- The lowest card wins.
- Tax the rich.
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Allies or Enemies Top 10 List at 13:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strong thematic integration with mechanics
- Tight, competitive play with social implications
Cons
- Requires careful reading of bluff and team dynamics
Thematic elements
- economic class struggle and political maneuvering
- thematic trick-taking with class division socialism
- political, strategic
Comparison games
- Revive
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dynamic deck changes — round-to-round cards introduce changes that can affect strategy
- team formation via bidding — who you team with is decided by bidding; alliances are fluid
- Trick-Taking — bidding determines best suit and team formation; strategy shifts as rounds progress
- Trick-taking with bidding — bidding determines best suit and team formation; strategy shifts as rounds progress
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is like inside out the board game.
- Every single bit about this game and the production of this game is amazing and it just makes the game a lot easier to play.
- I love the asymmetry of trying to figure out how your individual characters work best and work best together, too.
- The theme definitely reminds me of How to Train Your Dragon.
- And it is a really beautiful game. Like even the non-delux version looks so nice.
- Recall ... is brainmelting kind of puzzly fun.
- this game really does something different.
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