Game Info
Year
2016
Players
3-12
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.3/5
Collection
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Description
Cutthroat ladder-climbing card game where players manage vampire clans attempting to shed all hand cards
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Foster the Meeple Top List at 2:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
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none
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Thematic elements
- Vampire
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- we haven't done a strictly like Halloween top 10 in a while now
- these are 10 games that we recommend you try for the happiest of seasons of Halloween
- I just feel like I know we've talked about a million times but I feel like I can't have this list without horrified being on it
- if you are looking for a good like murder mystery style deduction game that isn't too like horror themed but is murder themed you know but it's so much fun and I we play it every Halloween so I would highly recommend it
- Castle party is super accessible very fun um and one we also play every Halloween and it is freaking adorable
- it is notoriously difficult to play
- it plays incredibly quickly and it's one of the one of my favorite social deduction games
- it is just it's so much fun it's so colorful and cute but in like a not so scary spooky kind of way
- I really love the way this plays it too I think it's really fun
- this game is total nonsense total chaos so much fun it will burn your brain though
- it's very very very good and very spooky like the artwork on the on the tiles is beautiful
- it is very viby it's witchy Vibes
- Cobble and fog invokes spookiness
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Beyond Solitaire Discussion at 103:12:40
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — Mentioned as a large player count trick-taking game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The Indie Games Night Market was a smash success, people were lining up hours in advance.
- It really started from my experience going to the Tokyo Game Market in Japan.
- We don't really have anything like that in the US like the design scene is very much focused on pitching to publishers.
- I wound up getting 26 applications and then had to kind of filter out what I thought would be the best kind of group of games to have available.
- The spirit of like just knowing that these were small Indie runs really like uh got a foothold in like a lot of people here in America.
- It's like the quintessential problem of like making art uh which is how do you do something for yourself that you also want people to play and to buy.
- I feel really strongly that a product that was made by hand made by one person should feel like it was made by one person made by hand and that those little Perfections actually breathe life into the thing that you made.
- The more Tools in your tool belt for what you know how to build you actually can make more interesting games.
- It's a Razor's Edge of like how much could you right cost versus time.
- It's important to me that it wasn't just like folks who were already hustling wanting to find another space to sell their stuff.
- Convincing a US audience especially to buy in is a little trickier.
- I don't need it to last forever I'm not looking for evergreens.
- For me it's not about leaving a mark necessarily it's about just like getting the thing I want out there and then moving on to the next thing I want to get out there.
- The best people utilize that as much as possible.
- Try Thinking by like subtraction right what is missing is such a good point.
- The Indie Games Night Market is a space to have fun when you're working.
- I got absolutely fooled by the bad guys on turn one I was poisoned and I was the investigator.
- I have not been excited for an exploding kitten game literally ever.
- It's definitely happening the next Pack's unplugged November 22nd.
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Tabletop Tolson Rules Teach at 0:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rich vampire theming with strategic depth
- Large player-count support up to 12
- Flexible endgame options with vampire hunter/draw and discard mechanics
Cons
- Complex rules with many special cases
- Higher learning curve for new players
Thematic elements
- Vampires, vampire hunters, and queens in a competitive card game
- Vampire-themed trick-taking with a vampire hunter objective; scales up to 3-12 players
- explanatory with live playthrough demonstration
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- end-round capture — Winner picks up the played cards; new round leads with the captured stack.
- hidden info and discard — Some high-value cards can be kept face down as hidden; end-round penalties depend on what remains in hand.
- Memory — Some high-value cards can be kept face down as hidden; end-round penalties depend on what remains in hand.
- Trick-Taking — Players lead with one card or a set; others must follow with equal number of cards, higher value wins.
- trick-taking with multiple cards — Players lead with one card or a set; others must follow with equal number of cards, higher value wins.
- Vampire Hunter and queen mechanics — Vampire Queens and Hunter cards add unique values and end-game penalties; Hunters can be played to avoid points but carry high penalties if left behind.
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Quotes (from this video)
- jalapeño goes from three to nine players
- the game is perfectly scaled for the amount of players
- what makes this game interesting and unique is the jalapenos
- this is fascinating there are eight cards of each number one to 13, four of the vampire queens, and the two vampire hunters
- great artwork and lovely theme here and some nice designing by Wolf Gang Kramer and Michael Kiesling in jalapeño
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