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Biathlon Blast

Game ID: GID0452316
Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-6
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
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Description

Skiing and shooting board game where faster skiing raises heart rate making precision shooting harder

Description

Skiing and shooting board game where faster skiing raises heart rate making precision shooting harder

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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • High-energy, humorous theme with tense decisions
  • Interesting integration of drafting and racing mechanics
  • Fun, thematic portrayal of a national sport
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • racing with a Gloomhaven-like card play deck mechanic
  • cross-country skiing with shooting
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Deck-like card play — Gloomhaven-style half-cards with decisions on use and discard.
  • drafting cards — Draft cards to influence actions and heart rate dynamics.
  • Head-to-head racing with shooting — Move around the track, then shoot with a die roll; heart rate affects outcomes.
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  • Kingdom Crossing is like Animal Crossing.
  • It's a light to mid Euro game with very nice mechanism which is based on the seven bridges of Kernixburg problem.
  • The engine building is very satisfying.
  • There are a lot of timing puzzles here. You have to manage your money.
  • Beaver worker… it's cute.
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