Game Info
Year
2022
Players
1-6
Age
13+
Playtime
180 min
Complexity
4.5/5
Collection
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Description
Groundbreaking puzzle game combining escape rooms board games and novels with 2D/3D jigsaws and 10-15 hours of puzzles
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Video TDemsLvRxEE
Board Gaming Ramblings Top List at 13:29 sentiment: positive
video_pk 82576 · mention_pk 207430
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Memorable puzzle experience
- Opened up appreciation for puzzly games
- Tactile elements
Cons
- Could have multiple titles from this genre on the list.
Thematic elements
- Puzzly game experience
- Tactile puzzle elements
Comparison games
- Unlock
- Emerald Flame
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Puzzle solving — The core of the game involves solving puzzles.
- tactile interaction — Involves physical manipulation of puzzle components.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Marrakesh is a really good game.
- It's a fun game.
- Underwater Cities is really good.
- It's a fantastic game.
- Revive is a cool game.
- It does explode my mind and it does make your mind your brain go into a pulp.
- The original a modern crime board game has given us like an amazing experience.
- It's a classic and one that I will always enjoy to play.
- It's a brutal game where you are hiring workers to work in your factories to produce things and try to sell them.
- What I would really like to play more because it's a great game.
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Video RYY4Zva0LHo
Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 2:41 sentiment: positive
video_pk 81036 · mention_pk 199267
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Blew us away immensely
- So many different kinds of puzzles
- Mentally and tactile elements
- Narrative driven
- Great puzzles
Cons
- Not recommended as a start for ventures
- Pretty hard
- Takes time
- Needs to be on the table for a while
- Quite a bit of reading
Thematic elements
- narrative driven
Comparison games
- exit
- unlock
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Narrative Driven — It is a narrative driven game as well as it's a puzzle game. So there will be reading of story.
- Puzzle solving — Explores more intricate puzzles because you have basically unlimited time.
- Tactile elements — Has a lot of tactile elements to it.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This blew us away like immensely.
- It has so many different kind of puzzles and both um like both mentally but also a lot of tactile elements to it.
- They they are like if if you like puzzle games, you're going to insta back everything that they do.
- Our favorite puzzle experience.
- Of all time.
- This is one of those games where we do you have the things on the table. You look at them and you can see the connections. you might just put it away because there's so many puzzles you can do at the same time which is a great one of the great great strength of this one.
- Most of these puzzles... is in some way word based.
- So yeah, some fluency in English is very essential.
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Video IKrJrqe2mCI
Board Games for One Top 10 List at 17:34 sentiment: positive
video_pk 39047 · mention_pk 117735
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- deep literary theming; rich backstory
- three separate stories within volume one
- strong narrative immersion for fans of Frankenstein lore
Cons
- niche appeal; not a traditional euro or light campaign
- volume progression requires sequential play
Thematic elements
- literary puzzle narrative with a historical angle
- Mary Shelley and her son with a legacy of riddles
- story-driven, puzzle-forward with volumes
Comparison games
- Three-volume narrative puzzles with a literary focus
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- legacy/mystery propagation — continue story across volumes via encoded clues
- Narrative Choice — cards/books guide reading and discoveries
- Narrative-driven exploration — cards/books guide reading and discoveries
- puzzle-led campaign across volumes — volumes contain multiple sections/stories to solve
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's basically like Star Trek Voyager in a way where you are on a spaceship.
- Don't treat this as a wandering exploration go, you know, like if you're playing an RPG video game where you might roam around to level up.
- Stay on mission. Stay on task.
- Adorable.
- I absolutely adore it for that.
- Dragon Eclipse. This is the darling of the bunch. This is currently my favorite campaign game.
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Video B6Aw0evNUpk
Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 2:54 sentiment: positive
video_pk 38499 · mention_pk 115909
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- storytelling puzzle game
- Mary Shelley era / Frankenstein lore
- story-driven narrative with puzzles
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 video is about the games that we have gotten since Spiel
- it's about dogs in a home
- Simo is a great game one that I highly recommend
- this is a story storytelling puzzle game about Mary Shelly the creator of Frankenstein
- it's a pure negotiation game
- I love the Euros I love all of that but I really enjoy sitting that playing a fun story-driven game
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