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Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
12+
Playtime
60 min
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Description
Asymmetrical DC Comics deck-building game with eighteen playable characters where heroes and rogues pursue different victory conditions
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 30:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Deep strategy and many character combinations.
- Asymmetric gameplay provides varied experiences.
- Excellent resource management challenges.
- Rich thematic integration of the DC universe.
- Plays differently for heroes and rogues.
- Ripe for expansions with many characters.
Cons
- Can take a long time for the first few games.
- Requires significant understanding of cards and characters.
- Playing as the hero can be harder than anticipated.
Thematic elements
- Heroes vs. Rogues/Villains
- DC Comics universe
- Asymmetric gameplay where heroes try to save citizens and rogues try to complete schemes.
Comparison games
- Cryptozoic DC deck building game
- Netrunner
- Marvel LCG
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Confrontations happen at three locations on the table where heroes and rogues interact.
- Asymmetric gameplay — Heroes and rogues have different objectives, starting hands, and overall playstyles.
- Card Drafting — Players choose from a pool of characters to build their starting deck, with options to acquire more.
- Deck Building — Players build their decks by purchasing cards that represent heroes, rogues, or schemes.
- Hand Management — Players manage their hand size, which differs between heroes and rogues.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I've known Vanessa since we were 18 years old. And for all this time, I did not know about these stories here.
- We're sending monsters to do our dirty work to go collect some gems in various dungeons.
- It is basically skull king with dice.
- This is a really clever card placing game. Card laying game.
- F1, this list might be the my favorite of everything we've seen so far.
- This movie is about 2 and a half hours long. We are 2 hours and 15 minutes into it. Something like that. Saying this, there's no spoilers. This is a racing movie. There's a big race at the end.
- I have never had that feeling of like I really need closure.
- The character development was outstanding in this movie. It was It was outstanding.
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The Discriminating Gamer Top 30 List at 12:42 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- distinctive deck-building feel different from the DC deck-building game
- varied hero/villain interactions
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- deck-building with location control
- DC Universe; hero/villain interactions
- story-driven deployment and interaction
Comparison games
- DC Deck Building Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — heroes and villains moved across locations to claim or prevent control
- deck-building — heroes and villains moved across locations to claim or prevent control
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This one is cutthroat competitive.
- Essentially this is a riff on Pandemic but it's so much more than just a Pandemic game.
- I love the exploration mechanic and you're actually building out the board it's evolving.
- no dice. I mean, you can play it with dice, but what you can do is you actually have a deck of cards and at the bottom you have different rows. And so, for different things, you can determine okay oh I got that number so it means this.
- the creepy claustrophobic feel of Nemesis. It's a scary scary game
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Review at 0:13 sentiment: negative
video_pk 79571 · mention_pk 193069
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Too much complexity for the time invested.
- The thinking involved doesn't make the fun come out.
- Felt like a big slog to get into and play.
- The rulebook is not good at teaching the game.
Thematic elements
- superhero
Comparison games
- Netrunner
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- asymmetrical gameplay — The game is very asymmetrical, with villains trying to finish schemes and heroes trying to stop them, and players can also fight each other.
- Deck Building — It is a sort of deck-building game where players start with a deck and buy more cards or characters as the game progresses.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is DC Forever.
- It is a sort of deck-building game.
- The game, though, is very asymmetrical.
- it just felt too much for too little.
- for a superhero game, I don't think that the thinking is here makes the fun of the game come out to me.
- it is almost chess-like but chess-like is not normally what I want to consider Superman playing up against Cheetah would be.
- So I just did not particularly like this one.
- I felt like it was a big slog to get into, a slog to play.
- For me this is a five out of 10.
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Review at 0:02
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Superhero deck-building game with heroes and villains
- Gotham City, Daily Planet, House of Mystery
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Mentioned as a genre of game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- There's a new superhero deck building game from Whiz Kids called DC Forever.
- You can either play as the heroes like Superman and Batman or the rogues like the Joker or Lex Luthther.
- There actually nine different bad guys and nine different good guys that you can play in this game.
- During the game, you'll be taking your characters to different locations like Gotham City Hall, the Daily Planet, or the House of Mystery.
- Each game, you'll be going to three different ones here.
- And the heroes are trying to capture the bad guys or rescue the citizens at the different locations.
- And the bad guys are trying to knock out the good guys or complete five schemes.
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Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Does some very interesting things with the deck building format.
- Brings some really interesting ideas to deck building games in general.
- Feels like something different from other deck building games.
- Variety in characters makes each feel unique.
- Each character brings their own strength to the team.
- Lot of depth if you are willing to dive in deep.
- Great comic stuff and character identity.
- Lots of tactility and strategy.
Cons
- Challenging to figure out character synergies and abilities initially.
- Has a learning curve.
- Can be slowgoing at the start.
- Some players might bounce off due to complexity.
- Requires playing multiple times to understand all characters for effective drafting.
- Can occasionally be a bit 'sy' with repetitive actions.
- Not all characters have good ways to react to opponent's big swings.
Thematic elements
- Classic heroes and villains in asymmetric deck-building battles
- DC Universe
Comparison games
- Netrunner
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric gameplay — Heroes and villains have different objectives and playstyles.
- Attachment Cards — Cards that can be attached to characters to provide ongoing effects or modifiers.
- attack — Characters can attack each other to defeat opponents.
- character abilities — Each character has unique abilities and starter decks that influence gameplay.
- Deck Building — Players start with basic cards and acquire new cards to improve their decks.
- Discard pile manipulation — Some abilities allow players to interact with or retrieve cards from their discard pile.
- Drafting — Players draft characters at the start of the game, with cost limits for starting lineups.
- Location abilities — Different locations have special abilities that affect gameplay.
- reaction cards — Cards that can be played in response to specific triggers.
- rescue civilians — Heroes attempt to rescue civilians from locations, contributing to their victory condition.
- Schemes/Agendas — Villains complete schemes by gathering bystanders, which contribute to victory conditions.
- Threaten — Villains can threaten locations to gather bystanders for their schemes.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This game does some very interesting things with the deck building format.
- It doesn't feel like other deck building games that I've played. This definitely feels like something different.
- Each character brings their own strength to the team.
- There is a lot of tactility in here, a lot of strategy when it comes to that decision.
- I do believe that there is a lot of tactility in here, a lot of strategy when it comes to that decision. I just hope people give the game enough of a chance to get to that point because I think it's worth it.
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The Dice Tower Review at 9:44 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- deep/complex design
- high production value
Cons
- box claims 30 minutes but is much more complex
- rulebook does not teach well
- not enjoyable for the reviewer
Thematic elements
- deck-building with asymmetrical sides
- DC Comics universe, heroes vs rogues
- deep, comic-book-inspired narrative with factions
Comparison games
- Netrunner
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — fighting over locations on the board
- area/locations control — fighting over locations on the board
- asymmetrical sides — villains vs heroes with distinct abilities
- Deck Building — build decks to fight and gain resources
- deck-building — build decks to fight and gain resources
- Take That — cards can attack opponents directly
- take-that — cards can attack opponents directly
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Night Soil is a game about poop. That's all it is about.
- This game kind of beats you down.
- The cloth mat with the printing on is pretty hard to read what all the symbols do.
- This is a five out of 10 for me.
- The rules... is a very convoluted process.
- I really dislike what Portal did with this.
- There is a player aid per character. Yay.
- Symbols in this game do not match what you think they might mean.
- Redonkulously huge.
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