Game Info
Year
2021
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
Strategic thief guild game set in medieval Bacharach where players control three thieves planning heists over six nights avoiding city guards
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Video r_2WCMQLi4o
Analysis at 0:03 sentiment: positive
video_pk 67547 · mention_pk 163669
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Mechanisms that make you feel like you're actually doing a heist.
- Cleverness of manipulating other pieces on the board (nobles, guards).
- Guards' movement and line of sight mechanics feel sneaky and engaging.
- Leapfrog mechanism and item passing creates heist-like handoff moments.
- Excellent and clear box setup instructions.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- heist
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Item Passing — Players can pass items between their own meeples, which is useful for managing limited carrying capacity and making deliveries.
- Leapfrog movement — Meeples can move a set number of spaces and can leapfrog over other meeples of the same type, ignoring the space they leap over.
- Line of sight — Guards have a specific direction they are looking, and players must avoid being in their line of sight to avoid arrest while attempting to steal.
- meeple movement — Players move their own meeples around the board, and can also move other tokens like nobles and guards.
- Pick up and deliver — The core gameplay involves moving around the board, often into buildings, to steal items and then deliver them.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And I think that is really, really clever. That is what makes this game shine.
- It is one of those moments in the game that really felt like I was in a heist game and I was feeling I was being sneaky.
- It has that moment in a heist movie where I have handed something off or where a character hands something off discreetly to another character. You have that handoff moment that you can see in most heist movies.
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Video xpyNFAclIKg
Review at 0:17 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 66856 · mention_pk 162661
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- I like the artwork a lot.
- I like that you control a different set of guards and merchants each time that you pass these tokens around these boards around.
- I like the picking the order of people going in.
- I like the look of the game.
- I like the concept of the game.
- I like robbing the stagecoach.
- It's a clever idea though.
- I think the game does something different.
Cons
- It just is a little long.
- There's a lot of down time in this game and I think it just takes a little long.
- The theme is not strong enough to carry the game that long.
- I wish there was a little bit more of a push your luck aspect to it.
- I wish it was a little faster.
Thematic elements
- Competition within a Thieves Guild after the Great Masters Guild collapsed, to steal the most stuff.
Comparison games
- Istanbul
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — You have three action points in your turn, which can be movement, you know, 1 2 3.
- Board building — You're going to build a big random board of sorts made up of these tiles next to each other.
- hand management — Each thief can hold different resources. You have four spots hold resources. Four spots hold coins back at your hideout.
- Modular board — You're going to build a big random board of sorts made up of these tiles next to each other.
- Pick-up and deliver — It is a pick up and deliver even if you're picking up stolen goods and delivering them.
- Player Order Selection — I'm going to be picking the order of everything in. I have a 1 2 3 and 4.
- set collection — Little black market orders in the board. They need these certain things to get a good chunk of points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is from Karma Games and it is a game in which you the against the Great Masters Guild collapsed. And so the Thieves Guild no longer have leaders, so you're having a competition to see who can steal the most stuff.
- Because your moves are very chess-like, you really don't want to go into a spot where a guard can get you.
- Which is why my final rating for this game is a six.
- It is a pick up and deliver even if you're picking up stolen goods and delivering them.
- Um and and and it and I wish it was a little faster because then I think it could be a really strong classic thief game.
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Video tcvjEswztYk
Unknown Channel Discussion at 1:00 sentiment: positive
video_pk 34101 · mention_pk 101526
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique guard and noble interaction adds a twist to the pickup-and-deliver genre
- Thematic integration with guild-building
Cons
- Pickup-and-deliver genre is not the reviewer’s favorite
Thematic elements
- thievery, guild politics, and guard interaction
- Medieval city with thieves' guilds
- thematic heists with a twist
Comparison games
- Burgle Bros
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- guard/noble movement — Players move guards and nobles to hinder thieves or aid their own schemes.
- Pick up and deliver — Players collect goods and attempt to deliver them for points.
- Pick-up and deliver — Players collect goods and attempt to deliver them for points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Here's the expansion, Industria.
- I'm super excited to tear into Industria.
- This expansion adds train modules and new mechanics that change how the game plays.
- reminded me a little bit when I saw those guards of Burgle Bros, which is one of my favorite co-op games
- Millennia Tracks of Time combines engine building, set collection, card drafting
- timing is very important in this one
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